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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A Clockwork Orange is a magnificent look at the potential of violence within humans (namely the youth), and the horrific actions some may take to tame thoughts and actions of violence in the name of safety within society. While taking place in a dystopia sometime in the future, A Clockwork Orange is readable in any timeframe and puts a horrific mindset of organized chaos among the young Droogs that run the streets at night. For readers first picking up this tale, get ready for a strange slang that may be difficult at first, but just read on, it makes sense and gives the characters an authority as you read along. A great novel with a deep and unsettling theme, A Clockwork Orange is not the story of just violence and unjust government, like the movie would tell us, but it is a story of the violence that is almost natural to youth, and the changing emotions and actions that we, as humans, feel as we grow and mature. (  ) AaronWTimm | Dec 26, 2009 |  A very difficult and challenging read, not helped by the frequent use of a made-up language! Completely different ending from the movie. A thought provoking novel from a clearly twisted mind. ( ) MandieZ | Dec 24, 2009 | I remember when the film A clockwork orange was banned in Manchester - so I read the book, the one with this iconic cover. jon1lambert | Dec 22, 2009 | Yuck! What a stupid awful book! I spent so much time trying to decipher the ridiculous made up words that I never could enjoy a moment of the book. If I could have given this one negative stars I would have. Hated this book SO much. :) (  ) AllieRhodes | Dec 17, 2009 | The book started off being a bit hard to read, but once I got used to the language, which is described as "odd bits of old rhyming slang, a bit of gipsy talk. But most of the roots are Slav. Propaganda. Subliminal penetration." (86), it turned into being a lot of fun to read. In the end I had most of the slang words figured out, I think, which was also quite a lot of fun in itself. I am not sure if I really care for the story too much. But it's short and, even though I am not sure if it's meant to be, but funny I find. Quite "horrorshow", no "cal". (  ) siafl | Nov 25, 2009 | 
 But all in all, “A Clockwork Orange” is a tour-de-force in nastiness, an inventive primer in total violence, a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds. In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker but is really that rare thing in English letters—a philosophical novel. The point may be overlooked because the hero, a teen-age monster, tells all about everything in nadsat, a weird argot that seems to be all his own. Nadsat is neither gibberish nor a Joycean exercise. It serves to put Alex where he belongs—half in and half out of the human race.
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