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Summary: A painfully exquiste masterpiece...
Review: A real horrorshow piece of work. Every slovo was lovingly handcrafted and it would be a grazhny vonny sin to hurry through it real skorry like. Every time I read it through, I can like viddy everything in my gulliver; one hell of a sinny. Everyone would enjoy this, from the nadsats to the devotchkas. Tell your droogies!
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Summary: Great morality story masquerading as sci-fi
Review: An original, powerful book. Make sure you get the edition that has the "missing" 21st chapter.
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Summary: A Violent and Disturbing Story
Review: A Clockwork Orange is without a doubt the most vicious book I have ever read. The brutality practiced by all the characters is ungodly. The book itself is written in a strange form of schoolboy speak that makes the plot difficult at first. Eventually (as with Shakespeare), the language helps to draw the reader further into the minds and activities of the characters. As for the writing, it is wonderfully imaginative and certainly very different. This book is not for the faint of heart but should be read by anyone with the slightest interest in the animal nature of man.
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Summary: Startling, most exciting portrayel of the future.
Review: I first saw the movie and it was amazing, the language and the real life portrayal. With litle hinting's that help the movie go on. Then I heard the book was better, I had to get it. I'm only 14 so this book gave me a little trouble at first, but I went over it a couple times and finnaly finished, I was left with a different outlook on people, language, and how things might be. I definatly recomend this book.
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Summary: "A nohz Scrap Any time you Say"
Review: I have read this book about 18 times and each time read it something new is revealed.. be it a moral or a revelation about the ultra violence we now see everyday in our society... Anthony Burgess's use of language in this book is amazing and I highly recommend the complete version of this book. A real horrorshow read and even though it was written in the sixties, is a huge wake up call for the world today.
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Summary: the best book ever!!!!!!! (best film too)
Review: This book is the best book i ever read, it is even better than Stanley Kubrick's film with Malcolm McDowell. It is a very nice, well-writen story, which make you cry whenever Alex, the main character of the story is in trouble, and laugh everytime he laughs. I really recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Get your rookers on this book, oh my brothers!
Review: When I read the first two pages of this book I almost put it down, the form of language, nadsat, created by Burgess and spoken by his characters annoyed and frustrated me. But I kept going and found out how ingenious Burgess really is. The language is challenging but provides insight into Alex and his droogs. It made it more interesting. The role the government takes in this is right for our time and the violence we see committed by youth is somewhat commonplace today. This book is powerful and even better than Kubrick's classic movie.
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Summary: Still thinking about A Clockwork Orange 15 years later...
Review: Today I read about yet another schoolyard massacre (how many have there been this year? Six already?) and once again, A Clockwork Orange comes to mind. How is it that we've forgotten that we humans are innately malevolent? In a society in which we can be "fixed", there is no pressure to develop a culture of self-control or of channeling the impulse of "might makes right" into "might for right". How is it that we've laced our mothers' milk with Ritalin and Prozac? How is it that facing the results of your acts has become a torture too great to bear? God help us all.
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Summary: Anthony Burgess has a good understanding of Human nature.
Review: A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books because as well as being entertaining, it touched down on some serious and little explored aspects of human nature. The undeniable fact that humans are prone to change is something the majority of us have not been taught. In fact, society teaches the opposite. We've been given heroes and villains, either the ultimate good or ultimate evil. Somebody had to correct this falsehood, and Burgess has done so with this book. Not only that, but he did so with a very entertaining and fun to read book.
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Summary: A real horrorshow piece of literature, like.
Review: Anthony Burgess is my new favorite British author. I picked this book because I wanted to read it before I saw the movie, and I enjoyed it more than any other book whick I've read recently. Once you get used to it, the slang which Burgess concocted out of Russian and English makes A Clockwork Orange an infinitely more enjoyable read.One thing which I found somewhat disturbing is that when this novel was published in the early 60's, the ultra-violence which was depicted in it was beyond anything that existed in society at the time. But if you make the setting the inner-city ghettos of the mid nineteen-ninteys, you're not all that far off. The last sentence of Part One, "And me still only fifteen," doesen't have as much of an impact on readers today as it was originally meant to. Is this really a tale of the future any more? I highly, highly, highly reccomend this book to anyone who is mature enough to really appreciate it.
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