Rating: Summary: An absolute must read !! Everyone should read this book ! Review: Real horrorshow if you ask me. This is the most intriguing, fantastic and exhilerating book I've ever read. What I find most interesting is the use of a new language which really adds some spice to the story itself. When you first start to read, you find it quite difficult to understand exactly what Alex and his droogs are saying in their nadsat goloss, but after a chapter or two, you start to get the hang of it ! It's as if you were plunged into Burgess' world and I personnally couldn't put the book down until I reached the last chapter! Speaking of the last chapter, it was left out in the movie by Stanley Kubrick ( which I found remarquably well done). I feel that it's a bit out of place because it's too "nice" and "happy ending" like compared to the rest of the novel...But when you think of it, the whole book is about human ethics in a way. If Alex remained as vicious and violent as he was, all hope of keeping a moral feelings would be lost. So this actually gives more depth to the whole plot. Anyway, this is definitely as much a classic as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Rating: Summary: real horrorshow my brothers a real feast for your glazzies Review: a film to be watched by people who belive in freedom of choich and to see what a person is like with out that freedom to make any choich for himself.
Rating: Summary: PLEASE, GOVOREET THESE SLOVOS.... Review: This book is veddy, veddy horrorshow, O my brothers. It matters not if thou art a cheena, devotchka, or even a starry ptitsa, you must reach a rooker into your carmine, get out some deng (or perhabs some pretty polly) and buy this book. And no, I'm not off my oddy knocky.
Rating: Summary: My gulliver was fed the magic that my glazzies read Review: Never have I read anything as spectacular as this. It was a great tolchock in this malchickiwick's gulliver as I read this masterpiece. I had a blast with this one, stayed up during the whole nochy, steadily befriending Our Humble Narrator, Little Alex...
Rating: Summary: Time for a little ultra-violence Review: My droogs this is one of the best works I have ever read, the usage of language is amazing...a must read!
Rating: Summary: a great thought provoking book of a very possible future Review: One of the best books have ever read. The way that Alex spoke with Nadsat (read and you will understand) was just plain spooky. Nowadays we always speak of the desensitizing of America's youth, but this book describes just the opposite with the way they took away a young boys freedom of choice.
Rating: Summary: A Clockwork Orange is greatly recommended to all. Review: The book is able to touch readers with any field of interest, whether it be reading, writing, law, politics, psychology, or science. Any reader who immediately takes well to language will be able to pick up this book and understand its content. Anyone who's read anything in the way of classic epics, such as the Odyssey, The Inferno, or Beowolf, or was able to understand Shakespeare the first time he read it, will be able to read and appreciate its manner of speech without any trouble at all. I greatly recommend it to anyone who appreciates writing style or plot. It has both. The book pushes your emotions and makes you ask questions bout yourself.
Rating: Summary: HoRrOwShOw!!!! Review: This book is an excellent addition to anyone's library. Although the slang takes a chapter or two to get the hang of, this book is well worth it. The themes of this novel are about good and evil. Once you read "A Clockwork Orange" you will realize that good cannot exist without evil. A horrorshow book you won't be able to put down!!
Rating: Summary: An excellent bok of chaos and extreme morals!!!!! Review: The best novel I ever read which taught me that however immature people may act, they will always grow up at some point. I highly suggest this book to anyone who is serious about their literature!
Rating: Summary: funny and philosophical Review: The slang stuff makes it seem like a teenager is really telling the story. The way the word "like" is used way too much also makes it seem real. The story is unrealistic, but there's some truth behind it. The dilema that society is faced with, of increasing crime and how to contain it, is interesting to ponder. It's cool how the author presents a criminal reformation idea that failed. Personally I don't think there is a quick fix to things like crime and youth running wild. Sometimes you just have to let things happen the way they will. I think the "controversial" last chapter is a drag and the book is better without it. Ending at chapter twenty would have left me with a feeling of wanting more. Chapter 21 wrapped the book up with too much of a nice warm feeling that the rest of the book didn't have, and doesn't seem to belong.
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