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Summary: a study of culture and subculture
Review: don't make the mistake of becomming too hung up about language in this book... it's really the least of your worries. yes there are three phases the main character alex goes through, but plot isn't as important here as internal exposition and dialogue. the point of a clockwork orange is anti-establishmentism. the point is youth culture. the point is... we all grow up, but we're not all going to be drones. if you want to find out about the plot, read someone else's review... if you want to read something of the modern canon, something anti-establishment in the very utmost manner, and if you can handle ultraviolence (if you voted for bush, you should be all set, hah!), you NEED to read this book... it's one of the most important books of the 20th century.
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Summary: morons
Review: the negative actions depicted in this book are not a good thing...duh. that was tony's point! "no good, no bad" idiocy makes tony barf his other lung. take responsibility for yourselves!!! (read that again!) try shock therapy if you're still watching sports on TV. help someone today.
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Summary: Saw the movie, then read the book
Review: I saw the movie YEARS ago and loved it. But my friends warned me against reading the book as they said, "It has its own dictionary." Great. But don't be put off by that. You'll fall into the lingo in a matter of moments. The writing is excellent in this Burgess novel and it truly deserves its place among the "Stars." Disturbing, funny, wicked, and above all, thought-provoking, this is a must read like "Gravity's Rainbow," "Bark of the Dogwood" or "Water Music." All are vastly different but stellar in their own rights. Everyone should at least "attempt" Clockwork at some point in their life. It's STILL ahead of its time.
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Summary: A Great Novel
Review: This novel, which I recently finished has touched me in a way no other novel has. After completing the book I was catching myself saying all the phrases Alex says in the story myself. This is a novel which should be read by any type of reader. My little droogs this razoodox is a real Horrorshow viddy! You will understand after you read the book! Trust me!
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Summary: "What's it going to be then, eh?"
Review: If you have only seen the Stanley Kubrik film "A Clockwork Orange", you really must read the book. The movie only shows the first twenty chapters. While the movie is well done, it does not tell the whole story. In most copies of the book, all twenty-one chapters are present. Both the movie and the book are a very insightful and alaramingly realistic satire of modern day adolescents. What Anthony Burgess wrote in 1962 seems very realistic today.While the coded language or slang used by Burgess is often hard to decode, it gets easier as you read further into the book. Alex is a rebellous and often violent teenager. With his gang of thugs, he rules the night with violence and theft. The crime spree continues until Alex is arrested and convicted of murder. At this point, we see a megalomanical government attempt to intervene by committing what we might now call a human rights violation. Through a series of dramatic episodes, classic conditioning cures Alex of his violent tendencies. Alex is then released into a world he is forced to rediscovered. Many of the things he once found pleasurable are now painful. These events nearly cause Alex's demise. It is only through his near death that the conditioning is reversed and his mind is liberated. With a free mind, Alex is left with the prospect of finally having to act as an adult and take on adult responsibilities. The controlling government is eerily reminiscent of books such as "1984" and "Brave New World". If you enjoyed these books or books similar to these, I suspect you would enjoy reading "A Clockwork Orange". Even if you personally find the book unreadable, you will at least learn what a "clockwork orange", the name means.
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Summary: A Noir Adventure Through London
Review: This is without a doubt one of my all time favorite books. The story is written in first-person and follows the adventures of a teenager named Alex. Alex and his gang of 'droogs' are one of the many gangs that take over London after the sun has gone down, doing whatever they feel like whether that is beating, robbing, violating, or occasionally killing. Eventually, Alex is betrayed when some of his 'droogs' feel he is too harsh of a leader. In prison, he voulenteers to be the test subject for a new treatment that would make him incapable of evil by turning him into a clockwork orange. (A person trained so that they can do only good or evil; they lose the ability to choose) He voulenters, saying he wants to do good, but really only wanting to reduce his sentence. When he is realeased he discovers that he is powerless to stop his former victims from harming him! The unique language invented by Burgess in the book is facinatating and really adds to the enjoyment. But, perhapes the most amazing thing that Anthony Burgess did in the book was make Alex a likeable character, you can't help but pity him but you realize that you really shouldn't. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the last chapter is what pulls the book together. I first read a version with twenty chapters and then read the twenty-first; the book is great even with the absence of the final chapter, but that is what really makes it work. Possibly my favorite book ever, "A Clockwork Orange" is hard to put down.
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Summary: A Quite Horrorshow Book Indeed
Review: The Background of this story is dropped in a standard futurized England where a young Malchick (boy) named Alex and his 3 fellow droogs (gang of friends) are at the local Korova Milkbar, a mesto-plus. The story basically tells of Alex, the main young thuggish proantaganist and the many crimes, violent acts, rapes and murders these malchicks particiapate in. The book really begins to take off and capture the reader after alex's droogs slam him over the head with a glass bottle, knocking him out during one of there many rape attempts and frameing him for murder. He is taken to jail by the millicents (police), he serves time and then is realeased for a scientific experiment. During the experiment Alex is forced to watch many short film clips in which people are being killed, and raped and such. As the clips flash on the screen he is administered a medicine in which the sight of violence and rape makes him sick, weak and powerless. Therefore enlisting that violence and rape are wrong, after awhile of this Alex is then released into civilization again and is considered "cured". In the original story, A clockwork orange ('resucked') the story continues revealing the future of our little teen thug. He grows up gets married and grows bored of those acts of rape and violence that once caught his attention so very much. As Anthony Burgess has said in the introduction of A Clockwork Orange Resucked, "Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive." It is in which the 21st chapter that this happens. 21 symbolizes maturity, where a child is no longer an adult and is therefore capable of making there own descions. The 21st chapter also shows moral growth, room for growth into good making little Alex no longer a clock work orange. A clockwork orange is a old british saying (He was as queer as a clockwork orange.) This is NOT meant to be demeaning towards homosexuals. This is just the way people spoke way back when.) To be a clockwork orange is to "have the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only be a clockwork toy wound up by god or the devil..or the almighty state." On the subject of the movie, Stanley Kurbrick does no such justice to this phenomenal book. He has based his movie on the american novel only featuring the 20 chapters. The only thing i had a little trouble with was the break down of the futurized teenage slang 'Nadasat' which is russianified english. It is meant to be like this for a reason, as Burgess explains in the introduction, to make it sound as though muffled. Do NOT let the language scare you away from reading such an extraordinary story as this, it may seem hard in the beginning but you get used to it in time which is the same as with everything you do. If you do however begin to get discouraged the following site's glossary is made to help you out: www.clockworkorange.com/nadasat.shtml/
I have given this story 5 stars because I believe it is an exceptionally genuis piece of literature novella.
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: I found this book to be one of my most favorites yet. Though for the some the English slang used will be a bit hard to understand, they will grow to love it. The main picture is something a bit dememented, but interesting nonetheless. It could very well change your views on what society today will label the "good" and the "bad." The movie doesn't compare to the book, so I suggest you read it now.
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Summary: The Dark Beauty of Joyous Brutality
Review: A Clockwork Orange is not only a suspenseful and enjoyed book, but a solid support in my theory that there is no such thing as right and wrong. It is a masterful fable that teaches us the same part of us that feeds on destruction, plants the yearning to create. I am little surprised that in most of the other reviews this idea has gone largely unnoticed. (i.e. I don't believe the point is that he and everyone else just came around and decided not to be bad anymore because of their experience.) Anyway, I really loved this book because it helped me in polishing my ideas of life, which I think it will do for many who read it. It is beautiful, simply beautiful.
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Summary: The old in out in out...
Review: This has to be the most demented book that I have ever read- yet everyone should pick it up and read it! There's nothing more interesting than a little controversy and Burgess does that incredibly well in this novel about terrible teenagers growing up and destroying people and places a long the way. It isn't until Alex, the leader of the group is captured and imprisoned that the story actually begins. Alex is forced to recognize his bad behavior through a series of films- films that force him to realize that the person that he once was is not acceptable- that he needs to change. This novel makes you wonder about the true essence of being evil- the ideas of free will and the choices/control that the government has over us to do "what is good and right" As soon as I finished this book I had to watch the movie- although I did find the movie to parallel the novel, the movie is more of an artistic piece of work- but still- read the book first then see the movie!
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