A Clockwork Orange. The actual story-line intrigued me. I'm still interested in seeing the movie version of this novel...but, well, the only problem was the wording. "Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words", as quoted by the Amazon synopsis on the book. I couldn't make a lick of sense of the slang that was used, even in the narrative part of the story. Managed to struggle to the fifth or sixth page before I gave up altogether. Hopefully the movie will be better. Unless they come out with a "translated" version of the book, this classic will have to wait. lol