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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-18 11:29:03.
(Language: English)
  
Anthony Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an alleged old Cockney expression "as queer as a clockwork orange." A Clockwork Orange is a brutal and disturbing book about a young adolescent and his friends fighting together in gangs and how they disrupt society. The book takes place in the future where the main character, Alex, and his fellow "droogs" cause chaos and use their own invented slang throughout the book. Alex cannot help being violent, it is just who he is. He and his "droogs" go around beating people up, causing disturbance to the society around them, and rape. The book then takes a turn and Alex tries to change who he is and redeem himself; yet can you change who you naturally are? It offers the question of free will and the struggle between good and bad. It also shows the maturing and growing up into adulthood and change of mind. It is a page turner and a fascinating novel.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-19 02:16:09.
(Language: English)
This was a very strange book. The colloquialism of the dialogue took some getting used to, but after a couple chapters the reader acclimates and becomes kind of a non-issue. The colloquialism does mask some of the darker points of the book, causing the reader to second guess the actual happenings only to have their worst fears confirmed at later points in the story. All in all, this is a dark tale, a morbid social commentary that I can imagine being especially poignant, especially reflective of the society and time in which it was originally published. All in all, I'm not sure that I would recommend it to anyone, but I wouldn't discourage an interested party from giving it a shot. If nothing else, it is short, you can plow through it and be done with it pretty quickly.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-22 05:56:37.
(Language: English)
The main character, Alex, spends the first part of the novel doing very bad things with his gang. When he is arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison, he is also given a chance to reduce his sentence by participating in an experiment designed to "cure" him of the desire to commit crimes. Alex commits horrible crimes, but the government does to him to "cure" him makes his crimes pale in comparison. Once Alex has been reformed, he no longer has the power of choice. He literally cannot do evil. But does that make him good? The first time I read this book, the final chapter was not included. For some reason, the American version left out the final chapter. The twenty-first chapter completely changes the whole point of the novel and provides the moral to the story. Make sure you choose the COMPLETE version.
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Peter posted a review at 2009-05-06 02:05:05.
(Language: English)
A disturbing book. Really interesting that it was written in 1962, supposedly about a time in the near future. Some aspects make you think Burgess was quite the prophetic voice, others that he allowed a twisted imagination run riot. There are elements of the counter-cultural (against the sameness and safety of the 50s) and elements of anti-russian paranoia (the horrific teens speak "nadsat" a bastardization of russian and english). Alex the central character is evil. He is a violent boy, a rapist, and sadistic murderer. He is totally self-absorbed and unrepentant. The system in the story is also incredibly twisted. In a sense it creates Alex, then punishes him, then reforms him, then turns him into an anti-hero before resurrecting him in his original form. I doubt one would read it for enjoyment, but as an essay on the human condition and on society it is compelling for all its ugliness.
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Shannon posted a review at 2010-10-17 11:32:59.
(Language: English)
This book was very hard to get through, and not just because of the language. Like many good art pieces, A Clockwork Orange makes you feel uneasy, throwing the taboo in your face. The main character and narrator, Alex, not only commits heinous crimes, but delights in them, and describes his delights in great detail to the reader. It's not often rape and violence is put in a positive light (at least not in books I read). You start off (rightfully) thinking of Alex as a monster, despite his likeable personality. To make things more uncomfortabe for the reader, during and after Alex's "reform" you start to feel sympathy for him. Once you're lulled into believing that he's a victim, Burgess shoves reminders in your face of just how wicked Alex is. A lot of questions and thoughts come up that you never thought you'd have to ask. Did he deserve to lose his free will? Or did he lose that right by making his evil choices? Does bad behavior warrant such extreme, inhumane treatment? Burgess gives us the questions but doesn't answer them for us. The answers are left ambiguous, for us to challenge our own thoughts and veiws and come up with our own answers. It is a hard reminder that not everything is black and white. A lot of people felt the strange language and made-up slang detracted from the story, but I think it made the story what it is. It emphasizes this future scenario, acknowledging that language is ever changing. You are an outsider, looking in on a completely different (yet slightly familiar) society. I think it also helps distance the reader from what's going on. Not having a complete and comprehensive grasp of what the narrator is saying makes the pill of violence a little easier to swallow. This was a very good book, and one that everyone should read at least once in their life.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-08 01:32:06.
(Language: English)
One of my all-time favorites. Find me another author who can write a book starring a completely immoral, unrelatable narrator who lives in a world that speaks an invented futuristic language, and who still somehow manages to make us feel extreme pity for the narrator upon his punishment. What other dystopian novel has a bad-guy hero? I mean, why are we supposed to care if some asshole who rapes women and beats up homeless men for fun gets his eyes strapped open and is made to watch some violent videos? It would have been much easier for Burgess to make Alex an innocent, caught in a cruel world. But he didn't take the easy way out. And that is what makes this book pop. Some people cannot take the fact that the dialect of the book consists of a mesh of English and a bunch of made-up words. They say it detracts from the reading experience to have to constantly be looking in the glossary all the time. But I find that the context usually makes the meaning of these words readily apparent, and the glossary isn't needed (I looked at it, but only on my third reading, to better my understanding of how he came to choose these words). And the narrator is both deplorable and charming. He draws you into his story and, perversely, makes you root for him, even as you want to murder him! I felt more pity for Alex than I did for countless likeable characters in other stories. The implications of this book are scary enough on their own, like all dystopian novels (how far do we go to instill 'good morals' in people) but the unusual, twisted way that the story is told is what makes it for me.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-06 11:01:36.
(Language: English)
Perhaps one of the more disturbing and unsettling books I've read - visceral, ugly and utterly captivating. It covers a fair bit of ground in its short 150 odd pages; the concepts of justice, morality and adolescent rebellion are all explored here and give the reader plenty to think about once finished. Burgess also uses an invented language - "nadsat", which introduces a number of created words; which can initially prove quite distracting. However as the story progresses it not only give you a sense of being in a world different to our own, but also illustrates how disconnected the acts of Alex are in his mind from how we might perceive them if Burgess had described those actions in the words of today. It amazes me that one of the most powerful messages of the book provided by the last chapter was apparently absent from the initial printing and ignored by Kubrick in adapting the film (although I should state that I have yet to see the film). The message of man attempting to artificially use natural processes for its own means and how poorly and unsuccessful such meddlings can be seems, for me, utterly essential to understanding the book. The last chapter demonstrating that a natural process is far more efficient and subtle than the attempts of man to achieve the same ends, seems so important to the book I am stunned that it would be seen as superfluous, or indeed missing the point of the book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-15 12:56:09.
(Language: English)
The latest edition with the controversial lost chapter is the edition highly recommended, especially in this day and age when your Eli Roths and wannabe Tarantinos are ever pushing an envelope that no longer applies, let alone relevant. Especially when it was debuted on film, there seems to be this naive assumption that being all bad is somehow synonymous with being natural and human, when in fact, as Anthony Burgess' introduction suggests, it's a bit to a whole lot more complicated. That's what I love about this lost chapter edition, where Alex, in his early adult years, suddenly find his drooging ways rather... tiresome and irrelevant. For someone who spent most of his youthful life indulging in drugged milk, rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven, A faith-builder, even with sludging through the muck of rape and ultra-violence--with the soundtrack of Beethoven's last symphony? What do you think? One thing for sure is, one will never see or hear classical music the same way ever again! ;-)
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Joshua posted a review at 2009-12-01 11:34:19.
(Language: English)
I think what I enjoyed most about the book was the slangy British speak. I almost felt like I was learning a new language. But aside from that, I found the treatise of what makes a human human (that is, choice) to be interesting, and I like that the author didn't seem to make any judgment as to whether it was right or wrong to remove the ability to make choices from humans, but rather left it up to the reader to decide. Of course I found myself siding with those who were against such mental manipulation as the main character, Alex, undergoes, but when you think about it, what's the difference in restricting someone's choices by locking them up in a prison, or restricting their choices by locking them up in their own mind? Either way choices are restricted, it's just a different set of choices. That said, I didn't think the issue was explored deeply enough. I felt as though the author did a good job up until the point when Alex is released, and then it seems like he was in a hurry to wrap things up, and he got to be in more and more of a hurry as the book rushed to its conclusion.
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Isabel posted a review at 2010-11-22 11:08:26.
(Language: English)
Esta novela está basada en una vivencia del propio autor en la que su esposa fué robada y violada abortando al hijo que esperaba. De ahí que el autor reflexionara sobre que ser bueno es algo que tiene que la gente hace por voluntad propia. Está escrito en Español y Nadsat, que es la jerga que hablan los adolescentes en la novela, y que es una mezcla de palabras en ruso y otras palabras inventadas por el autor con el fin de que en cualquier época que se lea las palabras usadas por los adolescentes no se vuelvan obsoletas. El protagonista, Alex, es el director de una banda de jóvenes que se dedican a la ultraviolencia por las noches. Luego de pelear con la banda rival, golpear ancianos, robar un carro, violar a una mujer y matar a otra, Alex es sentenciado a 15 años de cárcel, pero pasados 2 años es sometido a la técnica Ludovico que consiste en condicionar al sujeto contra la violencia pero quitandole la capacidad de defenderse. Una vez "convertido en Bueno" es liberado, pero se encuentra con las personas a las que alguna vez había hecho daño, estos le atacan y como ahora no puede defenderse opta por el suicidio saltando por una ventana de un edificio. No muere pero se cura del tratamiento y vuelve a la normalidad que para él significa la ultraviolencia.
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Elizabeth posted a review at 2012-01-18 03:32:21.
(Language: English)
I thought I wouldn't like this. I thought it would be depressing, misogynistic and full of sensationalist violence. Then I realised I was confusing it with the film. Far from being a one-dimensional vicarious romp of sexual violence, the novel depicts Alex as a very real human being, albeit a psychopath, and the violence and violation he enacts upon others is sickening. The violence is much like that in Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, described in detail without overt moral comment but automatically engendering in the reader visceral disgust and repulsion. I really liked what it had to say about the problem of what to do with individuals who are a force of unrelenting harm without contravening the very notions of the inviolability of the individual that society is based on. There are lots of themes in this book but that was the main one that I took away from it. When I read Brave New World, I remember coming away thinking, “Well as dystopian futures go, that's not bad. I don't really see much of a problem with that.” because I'm utilitarian as fuck, and I had a similar feeling when reading A Clockwork Orange. When reading about the behaviour modification treatment used on Alex and was a bit, “Aye. Well? I don't really see much of a problem with that”. Burgess is positing that the treatment removes free will, and that without free will no act can be truly good, as it is not a choice made for the good but merely the workings of internal clockwork set by another. I get this but disagree with it. Alex is a psychopath. He is no more in possession of free will than was the shark from the movie Jaws. He is biologically fucked in the head, as it is not normal to be a psychopath. Killing other members of your own species for no fucking reason whatsoever is not an evolutionary advantage, it is not found in fully-functioning individuals. As can be seen by his stable and loving home, normal parental discipline cannot alter his drive for violence. As can be seen by the pleas and warnings of his social worker, reason cannot alter it either. Fuck, even from his continuous punishments under the law and incarceration cannot alter it. How is that freedom? The behaviour modification treatment does not give or take free will, it simply neutralises a harmful drive in someone who has persistently demonstrated an unwillingness or inability to repress it. And as the doctor tells him – it's just aversion therapy. No different from when a toddler is told it is bad to pull the cat's tail, is met with wails and harrumphs when it shits its breeks, or has its hand slapped to keep it away from the cooker. Negative reinforcement of unwanted behaviour, that's all it is, it's the reason you're not sitting in your own shit and sucking on a fraying plug. It obviously didn't take with Alex so he's getting a shitload of it all at once. And whadyaknow, it works. I'm not really sure I think this is a bad thing. Aye, so read this. It's a classic for a reason.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-21 05:52:07.
(Language: English)
Excellent, not only is the story amazing and intense, but the execution of the story-telling fits perfectly. The use of a highly colloquial voice (drawing from some latin and mostly slavic words) proved to no be a mere gimmick. Pretty much that style would be the only way to get the reader to empathize with the narrator, but it works superbly. As for the philosophical aspects of free will vs forced goodness, the approach was subtle and therefore not didactic. With the 21st chapter, Burgess, makes his own views known, but the rest of book is aimed at letting the reader form their own opinion, and because of that, lends his position far more credibility. The language, story, and ideas are all just amazing. Excellent read, and if you have trouble with the slang, i'm sure there are glossaries for this little piece online somewhere.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-08 06:22:32.
(Language: English)
A "Clockwork Orange" was a very difficult read. There was a lot of english slang dialect, which took me a while to understand and also the imaginary that was portrayed in the novel was VERY disturbing. However, the novel was very engaging and thought provoking and deals with the theme of good vs. evil and the value of choice. Basically the novel is about a 15 year old sadistic protagonist, Alex, whose life consist of nothing but cruelty and violence. When he is betrayed by his gang, he is sentenced to prison, where he is forced to undergo a radical treatment that is suppose to change society for the better. It is at this point of the novel the story gets interesting because it makes you question if a person who does not have the choice of evil really considered good? I truly believe this novel is an amazing piece of literature. I have read this novel so many times because it is so intriguing and intense. It is defiantly something you won't forget once you read it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-25 11:52:14.
(Language: English)
What a brilliant and important book! I\'m a HUGE sucker for dystopia, and Alex is my new favorite anti-hero. I can\'t believe how unconciously Burgess allows the reader to comprehend his outrageous language! Real horror show! Whatever you do, SKIP the last chapter--I bought a vintage copy so I wouldn\'t be tempted to do it but alas, I was weak and I found a way to get it--so not worth it and it ruins the ending! Don\'t let your curiousity get the best of you too, learn from my mistake. I\'m a HUGE sucker for distopia, so this book has intrigued me for some time. What a brilliant idea, to create this sort of language that the reader can unknowingly comprehend and react to! I also thought it was interesting that the voice of reason belonged to that of the only Christian mentioned in the book; the man of "bog" was the only one who heralded the merits of "choice" as a definition to humanity. All in all, this read is "real horror show."
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A Reader posted a review at 2012-03-08 10:17:36.
(Language: English)
Take away a man's choice, can you still call him a man? What price for freedom? Burgess eplores these questions in this violent study of the human character told through the eyes of fifteen year old Alex. Creepy, thought provoking, and compelling.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-15 04:15:46.
(Language: English)
I was really disappointed. I don't think it was in the same realm as 1984 or Brave New World. I loved both of those and this fits in that genre in some regards, but lacks the bite. I never read the book with only 20 chapters, but I see why they left off the last one. The last chapter didn't feel like it was from the same author. The character starts to grow up in the end and continue his life. Does this mean Burgess thinks the brainwashing is justified? I didn't find the nice happy ending fulfilling for such a tragic book. I left it feeling cheated. I read this book in about a week because it is real horrorshow book outside the ending. And even after about a month, I still catch myself thinking in the speech of the vecks' in the book. You can take or leave the opinion of Your Humble Critic.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-06 12:14:14.
(Language: English)
Besides its fame for the ultraviolence, and its difficulty in reading due to the large new vocabulary of made up and Russian words, ACO should be read as one of the truly great social and political commentaries. Through its subtle characterisations, chance comments and descriptions and the obvious use of language (the clear sign of a linguist's consideration), we are provided a world of post-industrial decay and shattered dreams of modernity, violence and inhumanity, and the slow death of Western capitalist-democracy. Of course, the book is famous for its violence: this is because of the youth of the offenders, the pleasure and control they get from it, and the childish flippancy in which it is described. But this is only the first layer of social critique. In the end, it is even hard to really hate any of the violent protagonists as they are simply manifestations of a cynical and corrupt system. Despite the overly pessimistic and extreme portrayal of what life could have been like today (like many such works for the 1960s or 70s), it still rings true.
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Jennifer posted a review at 2010-01-26 10:11:56.
(Language: English)
Clockwork Orange falls into that category of classic that's more easily admired than loved, a brilliantly executed mental feat that leaves one cold but impressed. In a novel focused largely on brainwashing, Burgess cunningly uses language - in the form of his invented nadsat - to subtly mentally condition the reader. By the close of the novel, one reads "horrorshow" as "good" quite without thinking, and thus becomes complicit. Burgess has successfully altered us in a way, much as the State alters Alex. Purists may smite me, but I also think I'd've preferred the abbreviated American edit. The 21st chapter seems a near-pointless, hapless epilogue... but what do I know? I'll continue to love Burgess for translating Rostand, and not for this ultraviolent mindfuck.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-18 06:14:27.
(Language: English)
Well, I *used* to own a first edition, first printing copy of this book until I loaned it to my boyfriend from high school. I *used* to keep it in my purse/backpack/instrument case and read it during spare moments in waiting rooms, before class, between having to play in pep/marching band at our shitty football/basketball team's games. But yeah, I no longer have this book which I so lovingly carried with me throughout my last two years of high school. My only hope is that Dan read it, so help me if he hasn't and managed to "misplace" it. I gave him back his mixtapes/CDs. I just want my first edition, first printing copy back, damnit. I think I was more mad about not getting that back than him breaking up with me. So, what did that rant have to do with the book? Not really much, but just remembering that makes me feel like I could go for a little ultra-violence and some moloko with my droogs. I didn't even have a problem adjusting to the Nadsat. After the first chapter, I didn't even bother looking up words in the glossary. The "cultural" immersion was that intensive. I actually read the book before seeing the movie and still enjoyed the movie. I think Kubrick was the best choice as far as direction was concerned, Malcolm McDowell made for a convincing Alex (if a bit old for the part since Alex was supposed to be 15 or so). With reports from my hometown of young kids beating old women to death after they answer the door only to get $20, I wasn't that shocked/surprised by the violence in the book. It does say something that this concept of youth out of control and the rather drastic methods government/parents/authority will go through to attempt to curb such behavior is still relevant after at least thirty years. I'm not sure what it means, but it is a bit harrowing to think that now parents will just throw money and medication at the "problem," educators turn more into security guards, teenagers more like monsters. I admit, I partook of some particularly distasteful behavior as a teenager, but like the final chapter of the book, it turned out to be a phase. I mean "boys/girls will be boys/girls" is hardly an excuse for this sort of behavior, but it's hardly a call for reprogramming. Ok, enough preaching from me. I'm still mad at my ex for still having my copy after all these years, and I'll be madder if I find out he never even bothered to read it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-21 12:15:04.
(Language: English)
Don't judge a book by it's movie! If you're tired of reading the same ol' stories with a goody two-shoes protagonist, who has some sort of dilemma then through a miraculous epiphany he finds his way and everyone holds hands and sings kumbaya, then this is the book for you! (Whatever you do, do not read the last chapter!!!!) This is a very dark and satirical novel with a very fresh dialogue. Burgess uses a language called Nadsat to alienate the main character and his "droogies" from the rest of the world. If you have the capacity to read at a slightly higher level (like Shakespeare or Dante), or are enamored by the challenge, then this story will have you quoting it months after you're finished with it. And if you're IQ is above average you might even recognize the author's sporadic humor and sarcasm. Alex suffers from some kind of psychopathic disorder, and the society he lives in has incubated all the malice that lives within him. He is very clever, brave, witty, articulate, and not exactly what you would call a delicate flower. After the government experiments with a highly effective and novel rehabilitation method, Alex becomes an ideal citizen, but he suffers every day and wants to kill himself. His life becomes "Clockwork" and loses its purpose (I don't know where the orange part comes from). As you read it you will be confused as to how you are cheering on this menace, which kills, robs, and does other horrific activities. However, this is where Burgess' genius becomes apparent and makes the book a classic. You the reader experience what Alex experiences when he goes through the rehabilitation process, he starts feeling and doing things that are contradictory to his natural state of being, and hence becomes mere "clockwork." Even though he is a malevolent character you yourself are in oppression of something greater and can't help liking him and hoping for his reincarnation so to speak. All of the characters are interesting and the encounters with one another are real. The only folly of the book is its 21st chapter. I don't know hat happened here but the book is pure magic until its last chapter, where it abandons its key premise and succumbs to social pressures and suddenly becomes politically correct. Nonetheless, the book is profound intelectual bliss-you can end with the 20th chapter and it makes complete sense. The movie has a completely different ambiance and misses the artistic brilliance of the author. The book is probably 5 times more interesting, more entertaining, and much better. It's a great read, and will have you scratching your head by the end of the book, not because it's confusing, but because you can't put it down and thus have no time to shower. In My Humble Onion
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-07 04:52:52.
(Language: English)
i've never read a book that came with a learning curve. you really have to get past the first chapter to understand what's what. screw trying to read it with a dictionary- i think it's fully enjoyed when you're lost in their world, lost in the dialogue, and slowly learning about Alex and his world as he tells it. you end the book with a real sense of attachment and acceptance into the author's macabre realm. i guess the only reason i didn't give it a 5 star rating is cuz there isn't really a re-readability factory. it was really intriguing though: graphic and almost political- once you get used to the slang. or "nadsat slovos" i believe. :) also, i have not watched the movie, so i don't know what to expect, but the book was pretty genius.
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Todd posted a review at 2009-05-03 08:00:17.
(Language: English)
Unquestionably my favorite book EVER!!!! Burgess has not only created a hauntingly realistic character in Alex, but he told his story in his own language that you find yourself picking up on as you read! Brilliant display of writing. As to the story...it is another entry into the "negative-utopia" category I lump this, Brave New World, 1984 and Animal Farm into. The picture Burgess paints of the future is quite scary but even more frighteningly accurate. The story wrestles with the concept of good vs evil in a new light that will force you to rethink what it means to be "good". Brilliantly written, hauntingly accurate story and characters make Clockwork Orange my favorite book!
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-10-21 07:35:45.
(Language: English)
One of the few books which I would claim is not as good as the movie. The 21st chapter feels hugely tacked on, like the author wrote the first 20 and then felt so bad for making us love a monster that he felt compelled redeem him with a final positive change. But this change is so utterly baseless it is meaningless. Do terrible horrendous people really just get bored of being terrible and decide to settle down with families just because they've gotten a little older? I can see why the American Publisher and Kubrick avoided this chapter. Otherwise the book is pretty good, with exceptionally entertaining slang laced dialog. If there's one thing that's better than the movie its that reading the book you really get a sense of what all the words mean. So go out and read it real skorry you starry cheenas, devotchkas, and malchicks.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-01 09:27:06.
(Language: English)
I thought this book was absolutely brilliant. I loved the weird retro futuristic feel, as well as the language used by Burgess to reflect anarchic youth (with such depth that there's a glossary in the back if you can't work out the words from context; 'moloko' for milk, for example, 'gulliver' for face, or 'devotchka' for young woman). Once you get through the first couple of chapters you get used to the strange language and slang, and it helps remove the book's events further from reality as you follow the hapless Alex's violently optimistic narrative. As a keen linguist I really enjoyed the way Burgess coined new words and idiomatic phrases to portray future youth. I often use "yarbles to that" as an alternative to "bollocks" in polite company. But then again, I'm pretty sad like that. The main character, Alex, is a total bastard, looking out only for himself, yet you find yourself siding with him through all his self-inflicted misadventures, especially in his 'treatment', which is as inhumane as the violent acts of which Alex spends the first third of the book giving the reader worthy examples. When he returns to freedom in his 'cured' state I really started to feel sympathy for him - I did in the movie too, but it's definitely amplified in the book. If you haven't read this, you really should do at some point. It's just one of those books. Even though I loved Kubrick's movie, I still much prefer the original novel.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-31 05:57:16.
(Language: English)
This is a story that I really enjoyed because I like "future fiction" such as 1984. A Clockwork Orange is in a similar vein. It follows a "troubled youth" and his dealing with the system, how they try to fix him, and his escape. More focused than similar books, it gives a truly personal experience of a potential future. Some complain about the new words used but they aren't hard to figure, especially if you have a good language background. Not a "must read" but very enjoyable. Get the complete verion. In the US, it was originally released without the last chapter due to the hope it gave. The company thought the public could handle and would like a bleaker perspective.
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