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Summary: brilliantly disturbing
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. I don't like gratutitous violence, but this novella is justified in including everything it does. Burgess has an incredibly funny writing style and I often found myself laughing out loud at his descriptions then subsequently becoming horrified at the situation at which I was laughing. It isn't a pretty book, or a pleasant one, but it does make you think hard about humans.
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Summary: Memorable
Review: Some books begin to fade from the memory within seconds of finishing the last sentence. Others stick in your mind for the rest of your life.A Clockwork Orange is one of the latter.
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Summary: clockwork
Review: This is one of the few books ive read which not only causes the reader to expand his or her's language and perception of how our speech works but also causes one to evaluate society as a whole. Anthony Burgess's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is an extremely well written book contaning strong imadges of violence, rape and the tendancies of a malicious youth mind. In the book, he undergoes a treatment in which his body is instructed to become sick. Once his ability to commit these acts has been stripped from him hes left in a world he can nolonger relate to, and a series of excellently written events transpire. This book is one i would reccomend reading twice solely for the many messages within the story that burgess inserts cleverly. Highly recommended
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange: Good or Bad
Review: I loved this book. It is one of my favorites of all time even though I can't say exactly why. At first this book was really hard to understand because of the language but after a few parts I began to understand it. This book is very graphic and the movie is much worse. This book has just about every horrible thing you can think of. It has rape, murder, beating, betrayel, and much more. I am glad i read this book even though my parents told me not to because of what scenes are in it. They also didn't think I would understand it but i did.
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Summary: una obra maestra
Review: La naranja mecánica. Anthony Burgess La elección del bien y del mal, la capacidad del ser humano de poder elegir entre los dos es lo que lo hace humano. Pero, porque alguna gente elige ser malo o hacer el mal sin motivo aparente, excepto el placer del mal? Este es uno de los temas principales que trata el autor, uno que no queda resuelto pero que atraviesa el libro de principio al fin. Si no tuviésemos esa capacidad para elegir, seriamos menos humanos, meras maquinas al servicio de un Dios que no tiene un plan, pero como podemos elegir, podemos rechazar el bien y servir la causa del mal, aunque jamas entenderé como la gente se siente bien o deriva placer de portarse mal. Es una de las cosas que están fuera del alcance de mi tal vez corto e ingenuo entendimiento. La novela es acertada y profética, ya que en estos tiempos esa clase de violencia la podemos ver todos los días en los noticiarios, niños que matan niños, adultos que matan adultos y niños sin motivo aparente y sin ningún tipo de remordimiento o arrepentimiento. Después de ponimar la situación largamente y goborar conmigo mismo sobre el destino de la crisna humana. Me encuentro en uno de esos callejones existenciales que parecen no tener respuesta-salida para mis ponimaciones. No tengo respuestas satisfactorias en mi golova para lo que le pasa a la humanidad y creo que lo mejor para mi y para todos es seguir viviendo y tratar dentro de lo posible de elegir el bien por nuestro bien-estar y el de nuestros drugos y familiares. En términos de realización la novela esta muy bien hecha y después de haberla leído cuidadosamente creo que el capitulo 21 ( el final) es muy necesario aunque muchos digan que es una traición a la novela de ultraviolencia y maldad. Ese capitulo muestra una solución y una salida para Alex, nuestro humilde narrador. El camino hacia la madurez y un cambio en la forma de pensar, ya que se da cuenta de que algún día será un starrio viejo como los demás y de que tendrá hijos que quizás repetirán su camino aun cuando el no lo desee. La película de este libro es excelente aunque prescinda del ultimo capitulo. Esta en cada lector hacer el juicio final al libro, dejarlo como libro de ultraviolencia o ponerle el fin didáctico que el autor deseaba. De todas formas es un libro excelente. Luis Mendez.
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Summary: One of the best books i have ever read
Review: I am 14 years old, and, after reading the novel A Clockwork Orange, i did not go out and kill my friends or get a gang of droogs together to rob stores. I have my own will, and make intelligent descisions on my own rather than copying what i read. This said, the violence seemed to make the book appeal to me more, i suppose because of my sadistic side. Perhaps the shock value and unfamiliarity of the events intrigued me. However, the part of the book that I had the most fun with was the Nadsat. The language, while it seemed very difficult at first (I came very close to throwing away the book after the first page), turned out to be cool once you understood it (i finished the book that same day). After you learn it, the slang makes the book more enjoyable- you feel a bit proud that you can finally understand what they are saying, and the story shines through. Good pacing (except for part 3), great use of narrative and language, and an enjoyable, disturbing read.
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Summary: An insight into human nature
Review: Henry Morton Stanley said: "The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal." The greatest literary support of this statement has to be A Clockwork Orange. Here, Anthony Burgess has created an extremely frightening future where teenage hooligans run the night streets. Although packed with beatings, rape, and other violence, A Clockwork Orange is an entertaining, though disturbing, read. However, without the final chapter (part 3, chapter 7) unreleased in the original American version, this book is quite incomplete. That final chapter provides hope in a world of evil and shows that no one is all bad.
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Summary: A Classic Work That Hardly Needs a Review At All.
Review: This book is not an easy book to read, it's use of a futurist slang and vividly descriptions of violence makes it hard going in places. Don't be fooled, however, into thinking that this book is violent for shock value only. Hidden within the richness of the language and violent images there is a deep and hard hitting message in which Burgess tells us that the possession of free will is ultimately more important than what we use it to accomplish. The book is a modern classic and which everyone must read. It may be harrowing and disturbing but it is ultimately rewarding.
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Review: When this novel opens, Alex, a fifteen year old droog, is wandering the streets with his small gang of friends searching for crimes to commit. Apparently this is a nightly routine in which they bloodily attack any number of random victims, sometimes with no hope for gain at all. He is eventually caught and brought to prison, where he remains for several years. The state later decides to reform him using an experimental technique. Anthony Bugess' A Clockwork Orange challanges our fundamental beliefs regarding good and evil, right and wrong. This novel asks whether those human beings who are inherently malicious (meaning our protagonist, Alex) can be forcibly molded into upstanding citizens. The answer is, of couse, no. The only means of doing this leave the victim bereft of the basic human right choice. Robbing one of his free will changes him from man to machine. It is far worse to be a law abiding machine than an evil human, because the evil human still has the option of voluntary reform (as seen in the 21st chapter which is, in my opinion, absolutely necessary).
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Summary: A Malenky Masterwork From The Juicy Lips Of Bog Himself
Review: I never associated the word "genius" with writers or artists in general. "Master" seems more appropriate and Burgess was (is) one of the true masters of the 20th Century. In Nadsat terms, he is Bog Himself and Clockwork is one of his juiciest creations. Burgess combined the best qualities of linguist, philosopher and literary craftsman. Clockwork is a rare hybrid: a novel that is simultaneously plot-driven and language-driven. Burgess was a scholar of the non-boring variety,a disciple of the great Irish linguistic Ubermensch, James Joyce, absorbing the best of Joyce, his language, while discarding Joyce's over-scholastic and deadly dull plotlessness. Clockwork Orange is a hard book to put down. I've read it dozens of times and learned a new language in the process. Burgess himself later disdained this book as obviously polemical; I think this is its strength as well as its weakness. The actual plot has been described elsewhere. I just want to toss in my malenky peice: Clockwork is near-perfection, one of the most symmetrical, tightly-plotted novels I've ever read. Strange that a Christian message should be wrapped in such a horrowshow. Strange and sad that most people these days know Clockwork only through the movie, a plodding, but relatively faithful reproduction. Everyone's very skorry to forget these days, newspapers not being read much either. If you want to appreciate A Clockwork Orange, you HAVE TO READ THE BOOK. Put a strain on your gray matter for a change - you'll find it's not that much of a strain. Personally, I recommend finding the earlier Ballantine edition minus the last chapter and plus a Nadsat glossary. Nadsat, a brilliant mating of English, Russian, gypsy slang, and Joycean puns and alliterations, has a small vocabulary, easy to learn, which I find creeping into my everyday conversation to the bafflement of illiterate coworkers and friends. In conclusion, because I am one of the 0.000001 per cent of the population who cares about such things (see AB's intro to the new "restored" Clockwork Orange), I have to say that the American editors were correct in dropping the original final chapter in which Little Alex undergoes his obligatory "growth". I found the entire chapter contrived and ridiculous. The idea that Little Alex would suddenly go all warm and fuzzy over little babies, to the point of carrying a photograph of a baby in his pocket, and that one of his former droogies had graduated from the old in-out-in-out to contented married life, playing cards on his night off, makes me smeck out loud. Nothing in the book suggests that they are capable of such transformation and the last chapter should have been fed into a shredder long ago. That is the opinion of your humble narrator. If you are so dim as to disagree, it's a bolshy tolchock in the yarbles for you, gratzhny bratchny.
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