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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: At least one person said that the book glorifies and trivializes violence. That is total nonesense. Obviously this person couldn't understand the deep and powerful messages this book carries within its pages.Sure, the book has very extreme and gut-wrenching violence. Not to mention rape, torture, and everything else. But it is all to show a specific point. Halfway through the book, the extreme violence lets up, anyway. It is a book about people's rights. It's a book about how far we can go to try to make other people's lives safer, before we cross the line. It's an amazing, thought-provoking book. And if you're one of those people who didn't like it because you thought it glorified violence and robbing, you shouldn't haved been reading the book in the first place, it's WAY OVER YOUR HEADS. 5 stars.
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Summary: Absolutely extraordinary!
Review: This is a fantastic explortation into language, a real mind teaser, and, overall, an absolutely FANTASTIC book!
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Summary: Certainly one of the best novels written in the past 50 year
Review: being a big fan of dystopia novels, it was suggested that i read "a clockwork orange." Since that fateful day, i have been in love with this book. does that mean i am a sick, twisted individual? i don't this so, because i recognize the quality of this novels story, characters, and message. the plot, among other things, is full of conflict and horrible twists of fate. each new chapter is a new problem; a new conflict; a new struggle for the narrator. in addition, the nadsat language that Burgess invents for his "humble narrator" is pure genius. altough initially difficult to understand, over time the language makes perfect sense. this understanding creates a bond between the reader and the character, making the reader feel like one of his droogs. this presents a unique perspective, because the reader begins to pull and root for alex even though he is a vile and horrible individual. the reader begins to feel the pain alex must endure along with him. no other book has allowed me feel so profoundly involved and mentally engaged in many years. the overall uniqueness and creativity of this book make it a must read for anyone not easily offended.
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Summary: A captivating, widely misunderstood book
Review: If I were an English teacher at Columbine High School (or any American high school, for that matter), I would put this book at the top of my students' reading list, even if I had to go to war with the school board to do it. In addition to being an utterly captivating literary performance from beginning to end, this book examines the problem of violence in society in ways no writer has done before or since. Regrettably, I think, most readers miss Burgess' point. A Clockwork Orange is not so much about the evils of totalitarianism and the importance of free will as it is about the clash of the "evil" state vs. the evil individual. In the end, total government with all its prisons and behavior-modifying technologies is no match for man's potential for total depravity. So who's to blame for violence in society and what's the cure? Burgess offers plenty of clues, and the possibilities for discussion are endless.
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Summary: horrorshow
Review: This book is incredibly thought provoking and profound. Its been my favorite book for a long time. It's electricifingly fast paced and has several awesome plot twists.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: The evident uniqueness of the book, of course, is Burgess' invention of a youthful futurespeak for his Humble Narrator. Never again will I viddy the ptitsas nor tolchoch a droog in the same light. Within the lines, violence and debauchery; between the lines, philosophical inquiries into the Good and freedom by way of timelessly relevant social satire. This is an excellent novella. Excuse me, but now I must attend to a bit of the old ultraviolence and in out in out, O my brothers.
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Summary: Cast away any preconceptions...
Review: Make no mistake, this is what defines a groundbreaking book. Depsite its dirty, metropolis-like setting, A Clockwork Orange is a story tinged with both extreme violence and extreme tenderness, symbolised in the pscychotic teen Alex's love of the work of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart. Burgess goes beneath conventional prophetic writing to tell a tale that contains a lot more than just the usual "The Future is History" message. He writes like a genius, in a language both intriguing and gripping, a language the reader can latch onto in an instant, a direct result of Burgess' own fluidity and spark as he writes. Is it a comment on society, or merely a tragic story of misguided youth? For me, it is the comment on society that shines through, as Alex begins to understand that his horrific actions have extreme consequences. Yet is the violence subjected onto him justified? Is he really evil, or is it merely society that has polluted his young mind. Brilliant questions and quite outstanding literary genius is apparent in what I see as one of the greatest books of our time.
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Summary: I recommend this book.
Review: I think it teaches us the importance of choice. Which we take advantage of, but if you read this book, you see how much it matters to be able to make your own decisions. The nadsat language thrown in was excellent, because of the way it griped you and wouldn't let you skip a word. This book seems at times very gorey or disgusting, but if you continue you reading you will see the lesson in the end.
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Summary: Glorifies thuggery. Period.
Review: Utterly devoid of any formal or artistic redeeming qualities. A trivial exercise in giving vent to base, animalisitic urges. Totally complicit in the violence it portrays.
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Summary: simply a msterpiece
Review: this book is made up of 3 parts.the first makes u justifiably hate Alex the prime character and certinly disgussted by his actions he's a murderer a rappist who has no reasons for his violent actions except for the simple fact that he likes doing them.but some part of u realy gets to admire his intelligence and most of all his love for classical music. the second part is the most tragic.after his conditioning has no will to do evil only good...which is fine for society but not for him.here all ur indignation for his previous actions turn into sympathy so u pitty him. "he was a clockworkorange" is the moral of the story.he never had the freedom of choice to do good or bad. but in the last part when our humble narrator gets to decide O my brothers all ur disgust and hatred sympathy and pitty turns into love....what a masterpiece!!
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