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Work detailsA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Of course, The best adaptation of the novel is the 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick. Once I watched that, I had to read the book. A mesmerizing classic  Odenizli | May 8, 2013 |  HanJie | May 1, 2013 | I have postponed reading this book a long time. First I didn't read it because I didn't have it and then, when it arrived, I read some reviews that said it is a horrible book, it is difficult, language non comprehensible. Usually I read what I want, but since this is a 1001-book, these comments got more to me than they otherwise would have done. Taking part in the readathon, I decided to devote this 'extra' time to some 1001-books. This was one of them. And.... I have to confess, that it was lots better than I had imagined. Talking about the form of the book. The slang wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, after I discovered that most of it was derived from Russian / Salvic languages. Oh, was that all? Yes. The contents of the book, well that's another chapter. Sad, gruesome, appalling. Both the violence described as well as the 'remedy' that was found for it. A wonderfully pictured distopia, a state that does as it pleases with guinea pigs (well, imprisoned people), that's why I liked the book so much. (  ) BoekenTrol71 | Apr 27, 2013 | I don't think I can exactly say I "liked" A Clockwork Orange. It was difficult to parse the language without careful attention, and I didn't really want to pay close attention to a story about hurting, raping and eventually killing people. Maybe I've had Ludovico's Technique used on me, because that kind of thing just makes me feel sick. Still, "Nadsat" is pretty amazing as a made-up language, and especially the way that it is understandable if you pay attention. And the narrator's voice is distinctive: no one sounds quite like Alex. And the idea of the world, the themes explored, are worth picking it up for. But. Those faint of heart (or stomach) might want to give it a miss. (  ) shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 | I really hated this book... way too disjointed and ugly for me. (  ) StefanieGeeks | Apr 5, 2013 |
 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. Is contained in3 Titles By Anthony Burgess: 'A Clockwork Orange," 'The Doctor Is Sick," "The Long Day Wanes." by Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange [Norton Critical Edition] by Anthony Burgess ContainsIs an adaptation ofHas the adaptation
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The only American edition of the cult classic novel.
A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:05:01 -0500)
Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.… (more)
Anthony Burgess has a Legacy Library. Legacy libraries are the personal libraries of famous readers, entered by LibraryThing members from the I See Dead People's Books group.
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Editions: 0141182601, 0141037229, 0141192364, 0241951445
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