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Summary: The original edition is available in America
Review: This is the original version of the book, retaining the twentyfirst chapter and omiting the Nadsat glossary. In an accompanying essay the author shares his opinions of his best known work, and he explains how the book (and therefore the storyline of the film) came to be abridged in America. Those who enjoyed the original American release of the novel, as well as those who were open to the work but not its ending, owe it to themselves to consider this edition.
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Summary: Belongs on everyone's bookshelf
Review: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is definitely one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Anthony Burgess keeps the reader guessing about who the real victim is(Alex or society?) and also questions if forced morality is necessarily better than immorality. Write this one down on your must-have list.
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Summary: The book that reinvented the English language.
Review: A Clockwork Orange is so incredibly precise in its theories that Anthony Burgess had to nearly create his own language to fully get his point across. The slang that the main characters use, called nadsat, created new words to drive the point home of the book, while adding much-needed originality to the world of oddball science fiction novels. The 21st chapter also adds a hint of self-worth to the book that the original left out. The introduction by Burgess is important to the book, but if you don't know how the book ends I wouldn't recommend reading it beforehand. Overall, this book is as much a classic to American society as Gone With the Wind or To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Summary: With the 21st Chapter, the theme has changed ...
Review: "A Clockwork Orange! The message is so CLEAR, dude! Screw conformity, anarchy RULES! ..."
I hear this so many times from people who have seen the movie and assume they know the book. I have news for these people: The movie very closely followed the book ... right up to the until-recently-unpublished 21st chapter. Without this last chapter, the theme for me reads, "Man is basically evil and there is no changing it." With the addition of the 21st chapter, the theme changes to, "Little boys will be little boys and in time they may grow up -- but you can't speed up the process." I don't feel that the "additional" 21st chapter is a cop-out at all; rather, it is an integral part of the book that was never meant to be cut.
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Summary: A disturbing novel
Review: Everyone knows the acclaimed movie by genius Stanley Kubrick(1971, with Malcom McDowell). But behind this great film is a very disturbing novel written by the author of several other fantasist books : Anthony Burgess.
The story is alittle bit confused. Alex and his drougs(friends)kill people, rapped women and steale from honnest persons. They are like this because the world is like this. In fact, the future is not what we think. It's a strange and violent world with lots of killers and children stealing money from their own moms. Beethoven and Shakespeare seem to be the inspiration for ALex.
A great tale wich describe how our planet will look like if it continues like this...
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: I thought A Clockwork Orange is a great book. It is certainlynot for the weak, though. Its kind of hard at first, because ofNadSat, the language derived from Russian that Alex uses. I also recommend that you also see the movie of the same title by Stanley Kubrick and starring Malcolm McDowell.
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Summary: Clockwork evil litle shocker!!
Review: Viddy well, viddy well. For what we have here is the only realmoral book in this century. Here we have the story of a 15 yearolddroog Alex. In his world he is forced into a gang that rules the night , only till he get's setup by his freiends, then he is put into a testy called the ludivico tequnique where he is force3 to waaaaatch violent things. This gets him cured, but his troubles only just begin there. Alex decides to rummage around after he finds out his parents got a new tennant(Alex's replacement) and go's into a house where he raped the guys wife year's before. The guys plots against him, and alex jumps out of a window after being entrapped. When he get's in to the hospital he relizes he's cured. The novel asks if a man can't have choices is he a man at all.!
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Summary: Viddy well, oh my brothers
Review: Is it possible for a human being to be inherently evil? And, if so, is it moral to try and "fix" them? Clockwork shows the extremes, then asks is it human to be 100% evil, or 100% good? Stick with it, you'll learn to love the Alex's own little language!
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Summary: An Under-lying Meaning
Review: My understanding of this book, in short, is that no matter how evil and corrupt a person can be, they can always be changed and reaccepted into society, although, not completely as the possibilty of guilt still lays in the back of a person (or society's) mind, which can drive anybody to the brink of insanity. A classic masterpiece
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Summary: Legitimacy of Forced Obedience
Review: Being mildly religious, I always questioned sin's original inclusion in Eden; why would "God," arguably fully aware of the consequences, knowingly create a conduit for sin? Reading Milton's Paradise Lost and A Clockwork Orange answered my questions. How honorable is obedience if it is your only option? Alex's "reformation" demonstrates humans' tremendous hubris: the creation of perfectly obedient drones. Without the choice though, as Milton and Burgess' prison chaplain notice, humans cease being humans. While the twenty-first chapter detracts from the work and provides an unexpected, unfulfilling, saccharine-sweet denouement typical of "Full House," the twenty preceding chapters are worth the read.
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