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Summary: GREAT NOVEL!
Review: This is a great book which unfortunately has too many odd words in it. Also, I believe that the film was better in that they got rid of the rather self-righteous 21st chapter in Burgess's book.But altogether a great read.
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: "What's it going to be then, eh?" Anthony Burgess wrote book to be remembered. Little Alex undergoes some extraordinary changes. (I do not wish to say anything about the plot because this is a must read for everyone!) If the reader finishes this book despite the revolting (to some) actions of Alex and his droogs, he will be in for a real treat. Burgess succeeds in writing a novel that is only limited by the readers imagination due to NadSat. This language, unique to A Clockwork Orange, allows the reader to interpret nearly all aspects of the book in her own desired way. By the time the end has been reached, a slew of morals and themes will have emerged. I do not know if this is the complete book that is being sold here (the real book has 21 chapters but the book initially released in the US only had 20), but the 21 chapter book must be read, and the movie must be seen. When seen or read separately, each recieve a 9 rating. But when the reader has read the complete book and has seen the movie, a full 10 is the appropriate rating. Keep this in mind. Enough! READ A CLOCKWORD ORANGE! But make sure it has all 21 chapters first!!!
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Summary: Come me droogies, and viddy this classic
Review: Anthony Burgess wrote what is a very distubing and thoroughly modern tale in A Clockwork Orange, a book that bewilders in its complexity but is yet simple in its humanity. Burgess, like Joyce before him, creates his own language for his tale of these futuristic thugs in a socially apocalyptic England. It is a book that sucks you into its world so well for the very reason that you must learn its language. And Burgess, despite his often shocking vulgarities and violence, is writing what is essentially the central parable of the modern age. It tries to answer the question that lies at the heart of modern society: how do you find your essential humanity in a society that has come to regard the soul as a mixture of brain chemicals? Burgess is relentless in his desire to find something beautiful and enduring about the human struggle in the dense web of human technology, and little could be more appropriate when facing the absurdities of the modern age. This is a difficult, disturbing tale but one that belongs among the greats of all Western literature.
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Summary: A Timeless Classic
Review: This book will never age; you would never think it was written in the sixties, as the language of the book gives nothing away, and it is so applicable as to what our society may soon become. It gave an insight for why bored youths turn to crime, and the dangers of forcing them to reform. In this book, good and evil have somehow become mixed up: for example the method used to reform Alex is brutal, and today it would be called torture, so does cruelty solve the problem? The book asks, Can you force someone to be good, or do they have to come to their own conclusion in their own time ? If you haven't read this book, do so, and make sure your edition has the 21st chapter, as the book is depressing and the meaning lost without it.
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Summary: The Importance of your OWN choices
Review: This book is one of humor, violence, truth, and human choice. The book depicts a teen who's head has been tampered with. Our lovely government tries to take control and in doing so ruins Alex's life. They failed to realize that one can not successfully change unless willing to do so on their own. Alex simply needed age and the sight of his friend Pete's wife to realize it was time to grow up and get on with his own life. This novel has changed the way I judge society.
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Summary: Clever Social Satire
Review: Despite its (some people think) outrageous depiction of the near future, the book is actually a harrowingly realistic comment on our vitiated society and what it MIGHT become if its sociopathic paradigms are not arrested. The ending is a sly insinuation: the way its written, the reader is almost supposed to sympathize with Alex's triumph over the system as he returns to his vicious self. By dehumanizing Alex's victims, Burgess plays another joke: instead of condemning the punk's actions, the reader is supposed to ENJOY his 'outings'. Burgess's message, I think, is this: society is rapidly accelerating toward self-destruction; people are disgusting and innately malevolent; things are going fine, and the enduring paradox of our existence is the best testimony to it.
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Summary: The height of reading fashion.
Review: A Clockwork Orange is what Alex was made into as a punishment for his crimes. This left him without the freedom of choice, a product of the Government. It also took from him his love of music and ability to act to defend himself in a cruel world. The message I got from this book was that though individuals can be terrible, a Government can be even more terrible. An excellent book for any hooligan who likes to wear real horrorshow bolshy big boots.
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Summary: A very good book. I liked all the slang.
Review: I especially liked the 'Ludovico Technique' thing. I am currently searching at home in an encyclopedia if there ever was somebody by the first, last, or nickname of "Ludovico." I read on the inside back cover there was a movie of this book. Here's a 90's phrase on books. Don't judge a book by its movie.
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Summary: neat book
Review: This book is very popular, and each generation seems to love it as much as the last. I thought that it was very intriguing and at times, very funny, and I believed that the movie was even better. Anthony Burgess wrote it as a Christian parable, believe it or not, and space keeps me from explaining everything I think about it. Just read it with an open mind
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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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