[JKCalhoun]

> some might say due to bad writing

My favorite part of "A Clockwork Orange" (book) was that very thing: the narrator just talking naturally and leaving the reader to figure out the slang (Nadsat).

There too was a glossary in the back of the book but I soon dispensed with it and found I could get the gist of the slang well enough to just roll with it.

[denton-scratch]

This. You get the hang of the Clockwork Orange slang after a few pages, because the author is so slick with it.