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5> You are right on Martin! If people like Trainspotting, or A Clockwork Orange or The Road and can imagine those novels superimposed over, say, The Lord of the Rings, then how can they not love Riddley Walker?
... will also be group reads, so you might want to check into that. Of the others, I would suggest: The Good Earth, A Clockwork Orange , A Farewell to Arms, Brave New World, and The Color Purple. In any case, great list!
... Geraldine Brooks
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck
A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Outsider, Albert Camus
The True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
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Black Like Me
Knock on Any Door
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Stand
Swan Song
Cyteen
The Lathe of Heaven
Written on ...
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A-Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton
B-Bitten by Kelly Armstrong
C-Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
D-Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
E-Emma by Jane Austen
F-Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
G-Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
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... fisticuffs for suggesting the tossing of Grendel. May I suggest that you re-read it.
But I do agree with you about A Clockwork Orange . I have the book, have had it for years, but never read it. I was inadvertently exposed to the first fifteen minutes of the film, and was subsequently ...
A Clockwork Orange is his big claim to fame, but tomcat and porius have turned a lot of us on to Earthly Powers as well.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
... to read!
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
3. The Trial by Franz Kafka
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
6. The Name of the Rose
7. Neuromancer by William Gibson
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Be ...
... Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau
HG Wells - The Time Machine
HG Wells - The War of the Worlds
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Stephan King - Dreamcatcher
SilverTome in
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Oct 11, 2009, 5:46pm)
... is when I went on a major reading spree starting with YA authors like David Levithan and Rachel Coen and working my way to A Clockwork Orange , Slaughterhouse-five, Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisted, Rebecca, Victorian Lit., Anne Rice, and some graphic novels.
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Lists+books=not joy+joy, but joy squared.
1. The Magus
2. The Tin Drum
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Magic Mountain
5. The Lord of the Rings, and anyone who doesn't like it can cast themselves into the Cracks of Doom
6. The Illuminatus! Trilogy
7. Riddley Walker
8. Madame Bov ...
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Depends on how they're "educating" criminals. I cite A Clockwork Orange .
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(4) The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
(5) Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
(6) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
(7) Animal Farm – George Orwell
(8) Jennifer Government – Max Barry
(9) The Man in the High Castle – Phi ...
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393. The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
404. Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor
431. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
435. Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges
444. Solaris Stanislaw Lem
461. Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich Böll
473. The Once and ...
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408 In Cold Blood
435 The Collector
436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
437 A Clockwork Orange
443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
451 Catch-22
456 To Kill a Mockingbird
462 The Tin Drum on Mount TBR
467 Break ...
... Bird in Hand by Kline
202. Lost Symbol by Brown
203. Nurtureshock by Bronson
204. How Sex Works by Moalem
205. Clockwork Orange by Burgess
206. While I'm Falling by Moriarty
207. Losing You by French
208. Letters From Yellowstone by Smith
209. Guinea Pig Diaries by Jacobs ...
28. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I'd always been put off this one because it was said to be so difficult, but it wasn't at all - it was a very rewarding read, in fact.
120. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - a justified classic, though yet another book in the 1001 collection that's arguably more famous as a film.
I'm now 120 books in. I'm not reading '1001' titles exclusively, though I should imagine I'm getting through them at roughly 20 a year; at ...
August book of the month has to be A Clockwork Orange . So much in this and, even though I loved The Reader, A Clockwork Orange is so well written and so much a book of its time.
I have been on a reading binge lately and have added a few more classics to the list. I just finished Clockwork Orange and loved it. Its strange and the language was hard to follow at first (until I found a glossary on-line) but overall, I really enjoyed it.
And I finally finished Passage ...
86. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
This is a fascinating and oddly beautiful novel (by the end) once you allow yourself to be sucked in. It took me a few false starts to finally read this all the way through, but if you can make it through the first twenty pages or so and just ...
Congrats!
And way to go on finishing A Clockwork Orange . I couldn't do it!
... the Worlds by H. G. Wells - overall - meh.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Native Son by Richard Wright
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#46 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
This is a perfect example of why I prefer to read a book before watching the movie. I'd watched the movie many years ago and had hoped that it had been long enough for me to not automatically imagine everything as it was in the film, but ...
... you might as well go for the introductory one...
I have finally managed to get round to reading another one,
#125: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
This is a perfect example of why I prefer to read a book before watching the movie. I'd watched the movie many years ago ...
Off the top of my head, A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both are art in their own right, both true stylistically to the original story. And both Willy Wonkas.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
39. A Clockwork Orange , by Anthony Burgess (****1/2)
Category: from the Modern Library's 100 best books
A Clockwork Orange , follows the story of little Alex, a fifteen year old kid, who enjoys causing all kinds of mischief and ultraviolence (as well as the ol' in and out), at least ...
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41. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
I read this book on high school, when I was about 16. And for an non-native then the slang used in the book made me more concentrate on the words than on the story. Unfortunately, because the story is so good. My English has much improved over the ...
I'm re-reading A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess. Now I can appriciate it much more then when I was 16.
28. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Haven't seen the film, and I think I am glad not to have before I read this. Although only short, this is a very demanding read, because of the mixed language Burgess uses. Amazingly, even though many words are unfamiliar and substituted for common ...
... that might come up in discussion.
On a somewhat tangential note, I read a thread on LT about whether one should read A Clockwork Orange with or without a reference list of what the words mean. Many people thought you should let it become clear by context, with someone saying "The whole ...
... suit. Can't fool me. ;-P
I've read not one single page since last Friday. Not a one. It feels like something out of A Clockwork Orange to pick up a book now. I've forgotten how to read books.
... day lives. I would certainly recomend this book to anyone interested in Victorian history.
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Currently reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, and listening to Middlemarch, by George Elliot on audio book.
I just finished Clockwork Orange . While reading CO, I searched the Internet and found that Wikipedia has a good article on nadsat as well as a concordance. Very horrorshow. I am continuing Anna Karenina, At the top of the TBR is Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I found some references to this on ...
just picked up a used copy of Clockwork Orange in a Daytona bookstore. I have just finished Youve Had Your Time and decided to read Clockwork again. This edition has the last chapter that Burgess always wanted Norton to add.
... performance by Charlotte Coleman. Winterson, incidentally, also wrote the screenplay for the miniseries.
Then there's A Clockwork Orange , where the Burgess novel and the Kubrick movie are both great in their own different ways.
EDIT: Incidentally, Chanslor also wrote the novel Johnny ...
... - Brandon Sanderson
88) The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba
89) Clockwork - Philip Pullman
90) The Deadline Murders - Ron Morgans
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West, Rebecca (fic) The Return of the Soldier 4
Shakespeare (dr) Much Ado About Nothing 4
Burgess, Anthony (fic) Clockwork Orange 3.5
Duras, Marguerite (fic) The Lover 3
Hansberry, Lorraine (dr) A Raisin in the Sun 4
Hart, John (M) The Last Child 4
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
... Darkness at Noon as descriptive rather than predictive.
Anthony Burgess hasn't been mentioned. Most are aware of A Clockwork Orange , at least via the film. His 1985 is also well-worth reading - the appendix about the consolidation of vowels in English is worth the price of the book.
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The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus (1998--cheating a bit here). The only book I know of that rivals A Clockwork Orange for its audacity in creating a world through language. Absolutely original.
The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald (cheating a little bit more here). Rem ...
I'd suggest Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Better than A Canticle for Leibowitz and A Clockwork Orange rolled together, once you've got your head around the future dialect that it's written in. But it's pessimistic, so potentially depressing
If you'd like something with a less gloomy ...
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Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
The Crow Road, Iain Banks
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess (although I suspect A Clockwork Orange will stay in print longer)
The Innocent, Ian McEwan (his best book)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Possession, AS Byatt
The English Patient, Michae ...
... the responding posts we've got about ten potentially great books written in the last 50 years. I wholeheartedly agree with A Clockwork Orange . I was surprised no one mentioned Pale Fire. (Lolita, is over 50, poor dear).
That all boils down to one possibly great book per five years. Con ...
... the ground rules for its use. Without the humanities part we get 1984, Brave New World, and most disturbingly of all A Clockwork Orange . Rejection of the humanities in favor of the latest wizzbang technology will destroy our civilization just as assuredly as the narcissism of the Romans ...
When I think of American fiction, I imagine Alex from Clockwork Orange beating that lady to death with that dildo sculpture. Akin to our foreign policy for the last 8 years.
... and one can only presume that his later works will be so much better. But this one was not a book I enjoyed.
#90 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
This book was slow going because of the slang. I understand why Burgess used the slang - how it roots the first person narrative in ...
... New World
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's
12. Buddenbrooks
13. The Catcher in the Rye
14. A Christmas Carol
15. A Clockwork Orange
16. The Count of Monte-Cristo
17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
18. Doctor Faustus
19. Don Quixote
2o. Dracula
21. Fr ...
>15 Thanks for the comments. I am glad to see it was not hust me who thought that way.
#90 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
This book was slow going because of the slang. I understand why Burgess used the slang - how it roots the first person narrative in the culture he has created, ...
... a go, and I've been picking up and putting down The Corrections. I see what you mean.
Like you, Miss-Owl, I'd put A Clockwork Orange and The Lord of the Flies in the same way. My 17-year-old daughter has just read them both, followed by L'Etranger (which she read in French) and she' ...
... is the right terminology, but it was a gripping, visceral, brutal read - I guess I enjoyed it in the same way I 'enjoyed' A Clockwork Orange , if that makes any sense.
Next up: White Teeth - for some reason the opening reminds me of The Corrections, so I'm hoping it will be equally, er, ...
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... get past them, you are rewarded.
My example of a book I wanted to cut loose, but didn't and was so glad I didn't was A Clockwork Orange . I was so ticked with the first half of that book. I was sure that the "linguistic adventure" at the beginning of the book was Anthony Burgess' way of ...
... for the extent to which it sweeps away and reinvents the rules of fiction, and even language in general. If you like A Clockwork Orange for the audacity of its language-world, you'll probably also like the Marcus. But it's really sui generis.
There's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, also by Heinlein. A Clockwork Orange makes excellent use of first person narrative, but some might not call that science fiction.
... violence reveals nothing but a lack of intellect in both the writer and reader. REAL violence however - such as in A Clockwork Orange is both chilling and effective, while the simple mere threat of it (1984) is often far more scary than its acted-out counterpart. And the ...
The whole point of A Clockwork Orange is that it "brainwashes" the reader into understanding Nadsat. No glossary or dictionary is necessary.
Further, the point of the book is that the Ludovic Technique fails. Alex plays along, but as soon as he's been released he's back to the old ultra-violenc ...
Clockwork Orange might make an interesting case study for the PC brigades, since it does involve an ultraviolent rapist hero who is turned "normal" through mental conditioning. If that's not PC, I don't know what is? "One of us! One of us! One of us!"
I'm of the opposite camp - 1984 is better than Brave New World. And I's put A Clockwork Orange before both.
... read Julie and Julia a little while back, but being a survival cook at best, didn't really get into it. I did enjoy A Clockwork Orange after a while, though - after I'd got my head around the intricacies of nadsat and then desensitised myself to the horrific violence. (Hmm... doesn't *rea ...
... I was just wondering where you were. Just read an email from a friend who isn't at all literary who read and *enjoyed* A Clockwork Orange and was a bit startled by the fact. And I remembered you hadn't liked it, and then realised I hadn't heard from you here for a while, and then thought "oh ...
... I started this thread. Of course I'd heard of Anthony Burgess before I began browsing these forums, but only because of A Clockwork Orange . Never knew about Earthly Powers.
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#9 A Clockwork Orange , by Anthony Burgess
I loved this book tremendously. Not only does Burgess write masterfully well, he also created his own language, and I find this amazing. It also makes me think of when I was younger and made up my own language called "Lightbulb Langu ...
... philosophy eeeeek I can't even write about it now my brain's still trying to work it out. The torture scenes reminded me of A Clockwork Orange , they were more factual in their description, but still horrible. Quite wanting to read something else by Orwell now, I've read Animal Farm before. Oh ...
... Angel by Kasey Michaels trashy pseudo-Regency romance
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgessnot so obscure – Twelfth Night
17) Do you prefer the ...
A Clockwork Orange was a revelation.
... of fiction and non fiction. 4 out of 5 are Library Thing recommendations.
1. The Known World by Edward P Jones
2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
3. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
4. On Writing by Stephen King
5. A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel
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08. The Time Machine by H. G. H. G. Wells
09. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. Death Note 12: Bd 12 by Tsugumi Ohba
12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
13. Beyond Good and Evil ...
I just finished A Clockwork Orange . Did anyone else who read that book feel strangely compelled to start using nadsat slang? I can't get it out of my head!
Anyway, on to The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (off the new list).
... of environmental terrorism.
Distopias
Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, Rand's Anthem, Burgess' A Clockwork Orange all can get discussions going. However, the discussions are often one-sided because you often get of a lot of people just agreeing that "it was horrible. ...
On the topic of invented language, I think the best example is A Clockwork Orange - Burgess creates this alien, terrifying, and yet utterly familiar world, and despite the initial sense of disorientation, before you know it, you're thinking; 'wow, I really viddy what this chellovek is on about'.
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18. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
20. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
I read A Clockwork Orange in college and remember being so incensed and put off by the language that I wrote my entire book report in it. My last paragraph said something like "Now you know how frustrated I was trying to read a new language." Got an A, as I recall.
I loved To Kill a Mockingb ...
... from others on LT. Very enjoyable quirky book. Fun to read as well with the letters disappearing on a regular basis.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I really enjoyed this coming of age story. Glad to have finally knocked it off the list. I am planning on watching the movie as I ...
... any suggestions for a nice, quick, light read. I need a break! (I will pretty much read anything.)
I'm 90% done with A Clockwork Orange and all the slang has my brain fried. I'm so glad my copy has a glossary in the back. hehe
(On a side note, I still haven't finished The Elegance of ...
... the Korova Milkbar making up our rassodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry'"
A Clockwork Orange
although (#27) Memoir from Antproof Case is coming up fast on the inside for me.
My favorite is definitely Alex from A Clockwork Orange .
... I'm looking forward to the next quarter, and we're still just two-thirds into this one!
I've just passed half-way in A Clockwork Orange and can finally see a point to all the endless "tolchocking"s, obscenities & violence. Although I still can't see why someone had to go make a movie out ...
... it means - to give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle; To exhibit brilliant technique or style (Wiktionary).
A Clockwork Orange contains marvelously memorable phrases such as "Bolshy great yarblockos!"
I read A Clockwork Orange just recently and found it initially very hard going until I got used to the slang. By the end of the book it was as if I was reading normal everyday language. Did you know that the film version and the original edition published in America lacked the third part of the ...
Have a morning off, so cosied up in bed to finish The Flamboya Tree. I started A Clockwork Orange yesterday while I was killing time before class, I am enjoying it. I am glad that I have some Czech, as it is helping with some of their Russian(?) slang, though you can get most words if you ...
... part of my next SIY challenge - that tends to get books read!
My current SIY challenge is reasonably on track. Started A Clockwork Orange last night and third time was indeed lucky. I started enjoying the wilful perversion of Burgess's prose and think it'll be an okay read. The violence is ...
Oh i sort of had that problem with A Clockwork Orange my bf told me how awesome it was (he has odd tastes in books, music and the such like) so i bought it and was very... unimpressed. I just couldn't see what made it so amazing maybe its my very unpoetic brain that doesn't find all the kind of ...
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To move on with my SIY challenge, I guess it's time to try reading - or bashing my head up against - A Clockwork Orange ... third time lucky, maybe! Or maybe I'll start Anna Karenina early instead.
... only mentioned in the last minute of the movie after all. I couldn't imagine recommending it to someone who loved 2001, A Clockwork Orange or even Johnny Mnemonic. But someone who loves John Carpenter or Dario Argento? Sure, give it a tumble.
About George Romero vomiting, that's because ...
King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
4 stars
As I haven't seen the movie I found this book a bit hard to get into as the language is strange but before I knew it I was enjoying the stoy. A coming of age story with Alex set in a futuristic world where violence is rife.
41. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Finished 12 February 09
roseliot
From the review, I guess you did like A Clockwork Orange . This was one of my best reads last year and I personally liked the ending, I remember the book actually ending on a positive note with a hint of recursion (I do hope I remember it correctly though), can you elaborate a bit on ...
5 - A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess
This was my second attempt to read this novel. I think i was put off the first time round by an unwillingness to persevere with the language. This time, however, I settled into it fairly soon and found myself really absorbed by it.
I found it ...
I read A clockwork orange at English course at high school. Still don't get why, because for a non-native English speaker of 16 years old, it's quite a task. But I really enjoyed once I got into the language. And seeing the movie also helped. Maybe I should read it again, the language will be ...
I liked your poem analogy for A Clockwork Orange !
Ok Book 7
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I enjoyed this book, I was thrown by the Language for a while but once I got in to it it knd of flowed like a poem, a vivid, startaling and very desterbing poem!
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#340 Me too, even though I am diametrically opposed to her position on A Clockwork Orange , I side with her on Dirty Harry though (I am quite conflicted when it comes to Clint Eastwood). Pauline Kael was the best critic ever.
And I agree with her that movies and the larger media have made us ...
Pauline Kael also famously misread A Clockwork Orange , calling it a fascist film. (Along with "Dirty Harry")
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0051.html
Ok still reading A Clockwork Orange keep having to put it down... and got a little side tracked by pay day and a trip to the book shop....
Book 5
... Tom Cruise or Orlando Bloom. Just kidding ;) Then again, the nihilistic gleeful violence of Grand Theft Auto and Clockwork Orange come pretty damn close.
Earthly Powers with Ian MacKellan and Christopher Lee as the leads.
Loved A Clockwork Orange as well; read it quite a long time ago, but it stays with you, my little droogie....
... Arthur C. Clarke
57. The Graduate Charles Webb
58. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
59. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
60. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
61. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
62. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee ...
BBGirl55
A Clockwork Orange was one of my best reads in 2008, looking forward to hear your views on the book.
It's funny ...I was watching A Clockwork Orange , recently and for the first time I noticed the glaring lack of cell phones, and how the wired phone was a key plot element. It made me think "how could Kubrick and Burgess miss cell phones in their vision of the future?"
It's like the slide rule ...
... hakespeare.
Ok I have had a thing for fairy stories so far this year I promise to read some proper books now!
Next Up: A Clockwork Orange
... on the east coast. I think that's most of you bar sally and myself?
>73: I'll agree with all of you re the violence in A Clockwork Orange . I saw the movie in the seventies and was quite unprepared for for the level of violence. And it was senseless gratuitous violence too - gratuitous on ...
... ick either. The bookmark halfway through American Psycho is going to stay there, I think - so don't know my chances with A Clockwork Orange ! (It's down for my SIY challenge, wookiebender!)
--> KimB - sounds like another good reason to visit Canberra! I'd love to see the Degas exhibition as ...
... month... started Enduring Love, then inadvertently dumped it in a house I was sitting, in the Blue Mountains; toyed with A Clockwork Orange , got a bit impatient with the language and then was warned off by Jubby... now I've just picked up The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and we'll ...
... in the making of the movies also. And as proof that I really have thought about this already, here's a bunch more:
A Clockwork Orange
About a Boy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
All the King's Men
Angela's Ashes
Black Dahlia
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Brideshead Revisited ...
Good luck with A clockwork Orange Miss-Owl.
I had a copy of the book, and thought I would send it out as a bookring, and read it when it returned home. The book is MIA, but recently the film was on television, and we turned the television on part way through. I saw a rather violent home invasion ...
...
I, Robot Isaac Asimov
Animal Farm George Orwell
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Watership Down Richard Adams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nes ...
I just finished A Clockwork Orange , which was great. I found it very thought provoking.
I'm starting a few others from my list now. I'll update when I finish the next one!
4. Etta by Gerald Kolpan
5. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Etta was great. I thought it was very entertaining. It was one of those books I didn't know if I'd be able to get into, and I was very pleasantly surprised.
The Cement Garden ...
a uk first of lolita for 15euro. i also have a fairly decent 1st of a clockwork orange which is worth a hell of a lot more than i paid for it, but it still wasn't cheep. once on ebay i saw a copy of two tales of shem and shaun by Joyce and i didn't bid. it went for less than 20euro and is ...
... Borges, 1970
185. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1970
186. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1970, 2009
187. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1969
188. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1969
189. *The Collector by John Fowles, 1967
190. One Day in ...
... ingoring it until it does otherwise I lose too many books from my read list.
As for what I'm reading at the moment: A Clockwork Orange . What a fantastic book. Though not what I expected. This is one book when it pays to read the introduction first as it explains Burgess' use of ...
... the Road (audio book), by Jack Kerouac (****)
2. The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck (*****)
3. A Clockwork Orange The Call of the Wild , by Jack London (***1/2)
5. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (**** ...
... and po-faced when ti should be comic. On a par with Devil of a State.
Honey for the Bears - the book that inspired A Clockwork Orange . Kitchen-sink realist comedy. In Russia. Funny.
1985 - syndicalism gone mad. And lots of essays about Orwell's 1984. Methinks he tries too hard...
...
Only A Clockwork Orange , years ago. I'd quite like to read his autobiography, although it seems The Pianoplayers may be similar:
"But silent films put an end to burlesque, and the talkies, as the world knows, to live musical accompaniment in theaters. Again like Mr. Burgess's own father, our ...
... wrote anything else as good as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In later years, he turned into a parody of himself.
A Clockwork Orange is not Burgess' best. That'd be Earthly Powers.
I read another book entitled 1985 by Gyorgy Dalos. An interesting spin on the novel, since the author is Hungarian.
Clockwork Orange might be good for:
*Crime novel.
*Social conditioning novel.
*Utopia / dystopia.
*Constructed language novel.
... for authors who've topped themselves: Dr. Thompson and Papa Hemingway come immediately to mind.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange doesn't really fit in any of the categories, but is one of the best books in the last 50 years. Also, the appendix to his 1985 plausibly predicts the ...
i just found out about this website a few days ago and when i saw the 999 challenge i knew i had to be a part of it. i don't think the challenge is so much in reading the books as in narrowing it down to which books you will read! i'm having a hard time picking nine categories but figured i can ...
... with the classics because I had to go and make a new category half way through the year (just to be difficult).
1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (finished)
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (finished)
3.Open Sky by Paul Virilio (finished: pretty ...
Because sf fans will only claim good books published as mainstream - 1984, A Clockwork Orange , for example - for the genre.
... Money by Niall Ferguson. Topical, interesting and engaging.
July - The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan. Meh
August - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
September - The Shining. Still making me shudder...
October - A Dying Light in Corduba
... a variety that I have liked in various genres: Wake of the Red Witch by Garlarnd Roark, an oldie but goodie; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, distopic and disturbing; The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston, some fairly classic YA fantasy; The Blue Sword by Robin McKin ...
... (#84)
39. Chocolate chip cookie murder by Joanne Fluke (29/7) (#87)
40. Eclips by J. Benlef (1/8) (#88)
41. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (8/8) (#90)
42. Ontmoeting in Venetië by Rosita Steenbeek (17/8) (#91)
43. Berlijn Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin ...
... know what I was expecting...but it wasn't that. It wasn't bad at all. Just different.
I'm also about 50 pages into A Clockwork Orange .
I'm about 50 pages into A Clockwork Orange now, so that will be my January book.
So far I'm liking it ok. The language is a little hard to get used to.
... to 12 out of 24.)
My List (not necessarily in the order I'll read them) :
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
...
Here are my Top 10 Reads for the Year 2008 in no Order of Preference, something I posted on the 2008 group as well:
01. A Clockwork Orange
02. The Trial
03. Crime and Punishment
04. 1984
05. Siddhartha
06. Cat's Cradle
07. Anna Karenina
08. The Unbearable Lightness of Bein ...
Top 10 Reads This Year in no Order of Preference:
01. A Clockwork Orange
02. The Trial
03. Crime and Punishment
04. 1984
05. Siddhartha
06. Cat's Cradle
07. Anna Karenina
08. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
09. The Satanic Verses
10. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Ga ...
Top 10 Reads This Year in no Order of Preference:
01. A Clockwork Orange
02. The Trial
03. Crime and Punishment
04. 1984
05. Siddhartha
06. Cat's Cradle
07. Anna Karenina
08. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
09. The Satanic Verses
10. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Ga ...
1001 Books ...
1. Lolita
2. The Color Purple
3. The Sun Also Rises
4. Choke
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. The Shipping News
7. American Pastoral
8. An Artist of the Floating World
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
19, A Clockwork Orange - now there's a good idea! I love a book that has its own invented language (NADSAT).
I have not read My Antonia, which appears to be enormously popular. I will nudge OF Mice and Men, which I enjoyed, admittedly quite some time ago now.
... qualify. The overall ratings will change over time so the rating I post will be from the day I add it to the list.
1) A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess- 4.11
2) The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov- 4.33
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A Clockwork Orange might work for your brother as well actually. It's pretty action packed and scifi-ish.
From the 78 books I've read this year, the following are my favorite:
A Clockwork Orange
Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
Seize the Day
Fatelessness
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Old Man and the Sea
One Hundred Years of Soli ...
... Harper Lee - 4 1/2 stars
6. Catcher in the Rye: JD Salinger - 3 1/2 stars
7. A Clockwork Orange : Anthony BurgessLight in August: William Faulkner - 2 1/2 stars
9. The Scarlett Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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... to be more like The Road.
51 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Can't praise this book enough. Totally brilliant.
52 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Brilliant. Lives up to the hype.
... Blind Side by Catherine Coulter
* I Can't Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work by Nan Mooney
* Clockwork by Philip Pullman
* The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime) by Stephen King
August Books
* Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery) by Nancy Atherton
* Dead ...
... The Confusions of Young Törless (9-16) A Hero of Our Time
Speculative Fiction Ubik
Dystopia A Clockwork Orange
The West Lonesome Dove
(Semi) Autobiographical Novels The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Non-Fiction (1-8) The Gu ...
I'm new here so let's see...
I choose A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess from appydo1's library since I've always wanted to see the movie and only recently found out it was a book.
... by the Marquis de Sade
42. The Big Nowhere- by James Ellroy
43. Never Let Me go- by Kazuo Ishiguro
44. A Clockwork Orange - by Anthony Burgess
45. Island- by Aldous Huxley
#58 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
5/5
Off the top of my head I can think of two great books that are equaled if not surpassed by their film adaptions: A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I also love the films Diary of a Country Priest and The Last Picture Show but have yet to read the source of either. In ...
... packs, and I believe discovers some books as well. Everyone speaks a very different form of English--like in 1984 or A Clockwork Orange --and I remember it stuck with me for days after I read it. It may have been recced on Neil Gaiman's blog.
... Edwin A. Abbott
Legends II: Shadows, Gods and Demons, edited by Robert Silverberg
Also, a friend lent me his copy of A Clockwork Orange because I haven't read it yet. This doesn't technically qualify as an obtainment, since I didn't buy it and I have to return it, but...
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Yeah, I ...
Oh well. I hated it. Loved 1984 and A Clockwork Orange , but hated Brave New World.
...
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five or The Children’s Crusade
Stefano Benni - Terra!
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man
Norman Spinrad - Little Heroes
Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward
Dan Simmons - Hyperion ...
... development for me...I wonder if I could claim my book expenses on my tax return...
Anyway, I returned home with: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.
... in the pre-Vatican II days for permission to read books from the Index. And if you haven't read it, read Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange , and then read "A Clockwork Orange Resucked," (which can be found in the popular Norton trade paperback of A Clockwork Orange) one of the most ...
Starting A Clockwork Orange today.
... *:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Confession by Jean Jacques Rousseau
...
From the library of Message christiguc--Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. This one has been gathering dust on my TBR pile and I every time I look at it I swear that I will read it next... I never do. I'll read it next.
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Yes to A Clockwork Orange - such a great book! Anyone read Robinson Crusoe?
Lucky Jim - yup (v disappointing). How about A Clockwork Orange - can't believe we've missed this one so far.
Poor old guys. Monks in a Clockwork Orange type attack in Italy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4625001.ece
... would have read Irvine Welsh so obsessively in college. And the same goes for Fight Club, American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange . I can appreciate the books and movies on their own, but that could just be because the adaptations were so good. Had I seen The Golden Compass, I NEV ...
Ah me droogies...A Clockwork Orange is disturbing but still a classic...need to add it to my library list.
When I was 13 I read It by Stephen King. I really wish I had not done that, because it seriously messsed me up every step of the way, but still I kept on reading it.
Red Dragon ...
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I read Less Than Zero and American Psycho. I also saw both films.
I also see you have references in this thread to A Clockwork Orange . I haven't read that novel (I want to soon though) but it is one of my favorite films.
That's my background.
Here's my opinion:
American Psycho ...
... are simply not as good. On rare occasions, they are both excellent versions of the same story, like my fave book and movie A Clockwork Orange . I read that one first in high school, then saw the movie. Both were brilliant versions of the same story and the movie added things that the book couldn' ...
Thank you for all the advice. I think I might try another one of his books
>5 panaranjado
I did think A Clockwork Orange was excellent, despite the violence. It did bother me some, but I felt the story itself redeemed the violence. In American Psycho it was just all about the violence (and ...
Less Than Zero is definitely less graphic, although it is indeed bleak. I noticed you gave A Clockwork Orange five stars, so I'm guessing "raw violence and sadism" is acceptable as long as it's not described in excruciating detail? If so, Less Than Zero shouldn't be too offensive. Glamoram ...
A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami*
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut*
American Sex Machines, Hoag Levins
*Has anyone else noticed how so many titles seem to fit so many categories in this game?? The ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Clockwork Orange
As I Lay Dying
... on
Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X
Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Robert Sheckley - Journey Beyond Tomorrow
Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cra ...
I've tried A Clockwork Orange several times, but I can never quite get myself through it. I'm sure you get used to his using (entirely too many) non-English words, but I just found it annoying.
#171: I highly recommend Never Let Me Go and A Clockwork Orange is my fave book of all time. I wish I could get that feeling of reading it for the first time again!
26. (My original goal!) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. The entire time I was reading this novel, I was wondering why this was not a book I had been required to read in high school. Powerful stuff, that teens could actually relate to. I'm glad I eventually got to it.
Next up: Star W ...
... but hopefully this book will teach me a thing or two. Also, I want to start Never Let Me Go. And I need to read A Clockwork Orange which I started like a month ago and just did not continue. I only have three weeks of summer left, so I want to get at least these three done. And ...
... but hopefully this book will teach me a thing or two. Also, I want to start Never Let Me Go. And I need to read A Clockwork Orange which I started like a month ago and just did not continue. I only have three weeks of summer left, so I want to get at least these three done. And ...
2&9: I am jealous.
I was happy when I got White Oleander, A Clockwork Orange , Reading Lolita in Tehran, and 1984. They're more common, but it took me a while to get them. & some of the classics. They seem to cost a small fortune, despite being everywhere.
13,18,19 Yep, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was a great movie I thought when I saw it years ago. I read the book afterwards, also great, and to me it seemed as if the screenplay was nearly word for word from the book. Oddly I read that Burgress hated the movie.
... expected something from it that it couldn't give me, I guess. Sort of -- and I realize this is probably an exaggeration -- Clockwork Orange , which I highly respect but don't like, meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which is/was my favorite of Joyce's (other than a couple of his ...
Outside of books that I absolutely love, Anna Karenina, Lolita, Clockwork Orange , and perhaps a few others, the only books I have reread are those that I teach. Sometimes I'm rereading it because I'm teaching it for the first time. I always read along with my students because I don't want ...
House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
In the American Grain - William Carlos Williams
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Tristam Shandy - Laurence Sterne
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
And, as jam is usually made of fruit:
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
... Bennett
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I am now reading:
The Mitfords edited by Charlotte Mosley
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I am hopefully going to read The Island of Dr. Moreau this week and possibly A Clockwork Orange this week too or next week.
I was going to read A Clockwork Orange but ended up reading The Alchemist which was normally not something I would have chosen but I liked it even though it was short. Now I think I am going to start on The Island of Dr. Moreau.
#75-The Thirteenth Tale is great! I really liked it!
I was going to read A Clockwork Orange but ended up reading The Alchemist which was for 1001 books before you die. Normally not something I would have chosen but I liked it even though it was short. Now I think I am going to start on The Island of Dr. Moreau.
#75-The Thirteenth Tale is ...
#39 and 43
I started reading A Clockwork Orange not knowing there was a list of terms in the back of the book. So, I was reading wondering "Am I going to be able to read this? I'm not sure I know what is going on!" Then thankfully I figured everything out and I can tell it is going to be ...
... by Paul Bowles and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. All sorts of serious this week!
#39 Absolutely right re: A Clockwork Orange . I spent the first half of the book going "what? wait, what?" and then it just magically clicks and the language makes sense and it is, as you say, ...
A Clockwork Orange is BRILLIANT!! The language is hard to follow at first, but once you pick up the slang, it transforms into an amazing story!
I am going to finish Rebel Angels by Libba Bray and then hopefully start A Clockwork Orange and finish Forgotten Fire. Rebel Angels is GREAT! I am really enjoying it and hopefully I will read the final book of the series later this summer.
... i
* The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
* Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
* The Giver, Lois Lowry
* A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess
... who have dabbled in the genre. such as:-
Coelestis, Paul Park
Tunc and Nunquam, Lawrence Durrell
A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter, Lucius Shepard
A Maggot, John Fowles
AEgypt, John Crowley
Light, M. Joh ...
The Burn Journalsby Brent Runyon it was so painful to read that I just couldn't finish it.
Clockwork Orange was impossible to get through for me. it was just, so, well, disturbing *laughs*
Lolita was disturbing to me in the extreme, as well. Mainly after they started their physical ...
... I've read of Burgess's. He is an excellent storyteller and while it's worth the read, it's not as good as my all-time fave A Clockwork Orange , or The Wanting Seed which is also in my collection. A brilliant writer.
17. Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess
An ...
... by Tom Clancy
Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers by Kage Baker
The Blue Adept by Piers Anthony
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
... I believe kids should be able to read whatever they want to read ... my oldest had read Palahniuk and books like A clockwork orange by the time she turned 14 ... she seems okay to me ... it's not so much about something being AGE appropriate, as it is being appropriate for an ...
... when I spelled Tale.. Tail. LOL
55.Hamlet
63.MacBeth
67.Sense and Sensibility
71.Bel Canto
74.Beloved
78.A Clockwork Orange
79.American Gods
80.The Russian Debutante's Handbook
83.Persuasion
88.Pinnochio
96.Jungle Book
104.The Princess and the Pea by Hans Chri ...
... credit categories again.
Extra Credit: Dystopia {complete}
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ****
2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ****½
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ***
4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ***
5. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. ...
A Clockwork Orange . Quite fascinating so far.
I am in the beginning pages of A Clockwork Orange . It is certainly divergent from most books I've read.
... père
2. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
3. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Honorable Mentions: A Clockwork Orange , Post Office, and Two on a Tower
... I read the Ivan book at a very young age to. The feeling of terror and pain doesn't change though.
I'd like to nominate Clockwork Orange . I'll never get over that one!
For me, it was A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I found it tedious.
For me, it was A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I found it tedious.
... the movie, try reading the book first and then seeing the movie again. I dunno, it worked for me at least. Kubrick's Clockwork Orange is no slouch either.
Alien and BladeRunner. I wish Ridley Scott would do more sci-fi as these two are both terrific and have held up very well.
I' ...
Personally I would put A Clockwork Orange under "C" and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes under "A".
... Count of Monte Cristo Contemporary Authors: Cormac McCarthy, Charles Bukowski Playwright: Tennessee Williams Ex-Credit: A Clockwork Orange , The New York Trilogy
Leaving me a book away from closing out my French category.
i've been collect books for a while now, but im not an expert. i recently got a british first edition of A clockwork orange ; it's not signed by the author; it's only got a replica jacket and some amadán scrawled their name inside the cover. but i still think it's an impressive one to have, am i ...
... with this series but I'll finish it regardless.
The Glass Menagerie ***½
by Tennessee Williams
04/09/08
†A Clockwork Orange ****
by Anthony Burgess
04/10/08
The Locked Room (#65) ****
by Paul Auster
04/11/08
... can't begin to express how and why the book was soooooo DARK without posting spoilers, which I do not want to do.
Think A Clockwork Orange and The Stand meets I Am Legend, with no supernatural elements at all.
... anything else by him.
Well, Dune I like and have read many times. Brave New World - don't bother, read 1984 and A Clockwork Orange instead. I went off Neal Stephenson after attempting his Baroque Cycle, and there are better Heinlein novels than Stranger in a Strange Land, such ...
... be particularly interested in doing the first three, since I have them all in hand right now. I'd also be up for reading A Clockwork Orange , or re-reading 1984 or Brave New World, if anyone else is interested.
... "Notes on a Scandal", so I'll let you know how it compares!
Actually, my fave book & movie are one & the same: A Clockwork Orange . Both are brilliant.
A Clockwork Orange --my absolute favorite since I first read it in high school. Must've read it at least 7 times.
... rials
Good Omens
From Russia With Love
Small Gods
Murder in Mesopotamia
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Mort
Eric
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A Caribbean Mystery
The Hobbit
Noughts and Crosses
Angels and Demons
Cirqu ...
... that shouldn't even be attempted.
Let's face it, this isn't arguing over whether or not we're talking versions of A Clockwork Orange with and without the final chapter.
I'd defer to any LTers with theological backgrounds, of course, but this is really something that people would ...
I haven't read A clockwork orange either - I feel a bit scared, like when I read disgrace and was unsettled for days.
The more I read of the long goodbye the more it reminds me of the great gatsby with some P.I. vitriol thrown in. Anyone else think so?
I don't know what to read next. I ...
... be able to finish that one this week, so there might be room for one more book this week. I don't know which yet. Either A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (I'm ashamed to say I still haven't read that) or My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult.
... (I don't know which yet, depends on the mood I'm in when I get home tonight):
* Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
* A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (I should be ashamed that I still have not read this!)
* No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy
* The magician's tale by David ...
Colors
3-1. My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
3-2. A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess
3-3. Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3-4. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
3-5. Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
3-6. The Color Purple, Alice Walke ...
... what i taged it as. yeah i just checked the blurb and it uses Dystopian there. it's as strange as we and as frantic as Clockwork orange . i thought it was great and yet there are only two of us on LT who own it.
... everybody!
Coming out of lurkdom!
So far for February:
Lolita
Choke
To Kill a Mockingbird
Just finished: A Clockwork Orange
Going back to a series I loved as a teen now tht the omnibus is out..The Vampire Diaries.
After that, trying to decide between American Psycho ...
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Another one that's been in the TBR pile for over a year. Part ghost story, part romance, it was a great YA book.
24. A Clockwork Orange
WOOT! Finally, another one that's been on the wishlist for years down. Disburing, engaging, a must-read. Burgess is a master of language, and kudos to ...
... not heard anything about the book myself but you have piqued my interest. I would be very curious to see what the writer of A Clockwork Orange has to say about Joyce! It seems he did a fair amount of literary criticism, including a book on Shakespeare.
... War YA
LF: Siddhartha
LF: Lost Horizon
LF: Geek Love
LF: The Wanderers
LF: Breakfast at Tiffany's
LF: A Clockwork Orange
... i have some nice vladimir Nabokov firsts and a few nice antony Burgess british firsts including a tatty copy of a clockwork Orange . the books i bought cheep that turned out to be worth a few bob were things like The Pornographer by John Mcgahern and By Night Unstarred by patri ...
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (148 p.)
Somehow I'd never read this one - it has long been on my must-read list. I used it in part to balance out a 900+ pager I'm making my way through right now (too much waking up at 2:00 a.m. to watch live primary results -> reading is taking more ...
... on her to-be-read pile and save money goes pfft!
ordered from Amazon today:
Beyond the Chocolate War
Siddhartha
A Clockwork Orange
The Wanderers
Geek Love
Lost Horizon
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Clockwork Orange .
Quite sure I'm right (though I'm just here to check the meter). I'll come up with a new one.
14. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
What a magnificent book! After about fifty pages the language didn't bother me at all anymore, infact he rythm helped propel the story forward. I don't think that I had more difficulty than a native speaker would have. This book demands some hard ...
... says she has. The story is interesting, but I felt the author could have gotten much more out of it.
Am now reading A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess. Am slowly getting into the language. I wonder if it's more difficult because I'm not a native english speaker.
... try sf done by proper literary authors - Tunc and Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell, A Maggot by John Fowles, or A Clockwork Orange , 1985 and The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess :-)
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
pgs: 192
total pages: 831
I started A Clockwork Orange . I am still working on Ines of my Soul and Maximum Ride. Hope to hae them all finished by the end of the month.
2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...
Some good adaptations:
I though the BBC series of Tipping the Velvet was great, and it definitely did the book justice.
A Clockwork Orange takes quite a bit of liberties but keeps the essence intact.
The Dutch childrens book Krassen in het Tafelblad was adapted wel, as was Polleke by the ...
... Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gulag Archipeligo by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Church Dogmatics II.2
Autumn Rhy ...
... same umbrella as sci-fi and fantasy. I guess it's a judgment call. From what I remember of the movie, I wouldn't consider A Clockwork Orange sci-fi/fantasy, but I would consider 1984 as such. I can't explain it better than gut instinct. But it's only my opinion and some other readers of ...
... the vampire). Are you interested in any of the books that could be described as unrealistic? Would include things like
A Clockwork Orange
We
There was an earlier post on horror.
Also, what about magic realism? (or would that open a whole nother can of worms?)
... football (american) bowl games today:
The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters
Two for Texas by James Lee Burke
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
Sun Storm by Asa Larsson
... and get into their mindset. There are only two other books I've really needed to do that with before reading the books (Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting-not exactly parallel reading with P&P). I couldn't do the Keira Knightly one because of Keira Knightly-she looks like she is ...
among the top books for me, i would have to mention
Persuasion by austen,
jane eyre by bronte,
clockwork orange by burgess,
frankenstein by shelley,
one flew over the cuckoos nest by kesey
and fear and loathing in las vegas by thompson
love em!
... dams
5.Interview With a Vampire Anne Rice
6.Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
7.Herzog Saul Bellow
8.A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
9.To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
10.The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
11.Animal Farm George Orwell
12. ...
I actually liked A Clockwork Orange better as a film than as a novel.
... far I have read:
The Grapes of wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
A Farewell to Arms
The Scarlet Letter
Beloved
Herzog
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and Charlotte's Web
in my TBR pile are the ...
... all of the actors (particularly Gregory Peck and the young girl who played his daughter) brought so much to life to it.
Clockwork Orange : one case where the two different media yield two different masterpieces. Key word (obviously) is "different." I like them both immensely and I will no ...
October Summary
45. Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov ***
46. Clockwork by Philip Pullman *****
47. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue ****
48. Polar City Blues by Katharine Kerr ***1/2
Graphic Novels:
Vogelein by Jane Irwin ****
Ultimate X-men: The Tomorrow Peo ...
... weird)
The Wasp Factory (again, not horror in the typical sense)
The Green Man (not really scary, but has ghosts)
A Clockwork Orange (horrifying , but not horror)
Naked Lunch (same thing)
At the Mountains of Madness
The Trial (psychological horror)
The House on the Bor ...
I have now read 50 pages of The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Now on to A Clockwork Orange
... (no touchstone for the film) from Tristram Shandy
For the other three some teenage favorites:
Sophie's Choice
A Clockwork Orange
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill
Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart
... read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and just was baffled by the whole thing. I fear reading anything else by him. A Clockwork Orange is a great book but without that glossary of slang terms, I'd have never made it through that book either.
... by Grace Tiffany was OK.
Mrs. Shakespeare by Robert Nye was truly dreadful.
Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess is a classic, but I wasn't too fond of it.
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber was good (but I don't really care for mysteries).
... previous)
The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells
The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Children of Men by P.D. James (I still haven't ...
... by the vampire(s) in Salem's Lot.
Others that have already been named: Randall Flagg from The Stand, Alex from A Clockwork Orange , and the evil spirit(s) from The Exorcist. Oh, yeah, and Dracula.
... by Stephen King
Midnight Harvest by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Godforsaken by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ...
... King’s It
Hannibal Lecter from Thomas Harris’ novels
Big Brother from 1984
Alex in Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Christian Szell from Marathon Man by William Goldman
Francis Begbie in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Voldemor ...
I happen to think American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and Fight Club are all very well written and very provocative books. Yet I certainly wouldn't want anyone under 16 or perhaps even 17 to get their hands on them; each is quite disturbing in its own way. Yet, the naivete here may be all my ...
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
... I've read this book I have to say I am kind of disappointed. My first impression was that it was going to be a book like A Clockwork Orange because of the slang and the futuristic ideas. Yet, nobody in the book really accomplished anything, and so in a way it reminded me more of The Catcher ...
... read the first chapter and as all of you have noted was taken aback by the word choice as well. I found it very familiar to A Clockwork Orange in that respect; of course at that time I was much younger and actually tried to make a dictionary reference of the terms as I read. After the first ...
... Elmore Leonard
51. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
52. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
53. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
54. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the First: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
55. A Series of Unfortunate Events ...
"'You have govoreeted my thoughts for me,' I smiled away."
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
I'm in a future England, hanging out with my droogs, making up our rassoodocks about what to do in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
I have just started A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Having seen the film several times, I figured it was about time I read the book.
... Orwell's newspeak where i was trying to support the freedom of speech/debate without a regulatory body for language?)
A Clockwork Orange might qualify as Dystopian, and certainly Burgess takes inventive liberties with his imagined future slang? (how i wonder would he react to the ...
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Someone to Watch Over Me by Teresa Hill
Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult
The hours by Michael Cunningham
I'm currently reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, and The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Unfortunately I misplaced the latter a few days ago, and so have started reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin as well. I normally only read one book at a time, so my ...
... Lights, Big City
Bret Easton Ellis; Less Than Zero and most of his other novels/stories
Anthony Burgess; A Clockwork Orange milk-plus anyone? (see Vellocet or synthmesc)
Ian Watson; The Embedding for more of a SF look.
Paddy Chayefsky; Altered States
(This Gr ...
The Red and the Black
A Clockwork Orange
The Yellow Wallpaper
Anne of Green Gables
A Pair of Blue Eyes
errmm... something by Inigo Jones
Violet to Vita
bonus book
Richard III
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
State of Fear - Michael Crichton
It - Stephen King
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
On Writing - Stephen King (nonfiction book of his that is simply fantastic, especially if ...
... these stories, they still managed to sneak up and surprise me!
If you want a thought provoker kind of thriller, go for A Clockwork Orange . The language is difficult to get through at first, but after that, the premise of the book shines through brilliantly. (The movie's good too!)
Inte ...
... not be reading all next weekend while I'm out of town, but I hope to be finished not reading it a few weeks later.
Orange Pickles Taste Funny
... The Color Purple has been on my wish list for a couple years now (maybe I should go buy it myself?) I tried reading A Clockwork Orange when I was 11... I should try again. I want to read all of Dostoevsky's work and all of Jane Austen's work.
I've read: To Kill a Mockingbird, The L ...
I have not reread a book in many, many years. But during my "angst-filled youth" I reread A Clockwork Orange many times. In fact, I even carried the paperback around in my jacket in order to have constant access to this book. Ah, youth...so dramatic!
... Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
40. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
41. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
42. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
43. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
44. Heart of Darkness by Jospeh Conrad
45. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
46. The ...
... Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was 11-12 (long before I knew anything about their censorship), and A Clockwork Orange when I was around 13. There were other books, of course, but those are some of my favorites to this day. :)
There were other people, though, who ...
... article on Burgess's fiction and identified 6 works as being central to the Burgess canon: the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange , Nothing Like the Sun, MF, the Enderby novels and Earthly Powers.
The very fine British writer William Boyd is another long-standing Burgess ...
... content, and i adore her work. i guess, visual pornography is complex. a book in which a rape scene is described, such as a clockwork orange is a very different fact from images of a woman, in degrading poses, taken because she in a financially disadvantaged position and needed the money, in a ...
... oelho
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
All under 200 pages (average around 150). Very quick (and good, imo) reads.
... The Real Life of Anthony Burgess and liking it ok so far. I've only read 4 of Burgess's books so far, including A Clockwork Orange of course, but I thought his 1980 novel Earthly Powers was easily one of the greatest books of the last 50 years. That said, Burgess's personal life ...
... proof, signed by the author, William Scott Wilson, to a friend he thanked in the book. Very excited about that)
A Clockwork Orange
Some random Star Wars book
I really wish there were a good used bookstore close to me.
... been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.
Brighton Rock
'What's it going to be then, eh?'
A clockwork orange
Gustave Aschenbach - or von Aschenbach, as he had been known officially since his fiftieth birthday - had set out alone from his house in Prince Regent ...
... the connections and the distinct works can be evident.
On a tangent to this, I recently learned that some versions of A Clockwork Orange have an extra chapter that older American editions do not, does this make them different works? I'm not sure, I am leaning towards yes, although ...
JakyBF: A Clockwork Orange is my fave book. Have you ever read it? Go for it!
Right now I am in the middle of the first Harry Potter. I've read it before but I'm determined to get through the whole set this year in time for the last book being published this summer. They've been sitting on ...
... people: Have you seen the Independent today? They're starting a 'banned books' collection, which looks rather interesting. A Clockwork Orange is free today. Im tempted...
Thanks, Myshelves. I'll bear that in mind as I prop my eyes open a la Alex in A Clockwork Orange to read the rest of it. *cries in advance.
As for the Riverworld series, no; there's no explanation really (excepting Burton's experiences in the first chapter) but it's a brilliant conceit and ...
A difficult question, but here's a few that immediately pop into my head:
1. Anthony Burgess: I've read A Clockwork Orange countless times & would love to be able to devote the time to his other works.
2. Shakespeare
3. Kurt Vonnegut: Another great mind & storyteller
4. D ...
... Shrugged the other day. Today I bought Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I also wanted to buy a Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess but B&N didn't have it! =(
... eet!
And how fitting is the unsuggestion Captivating : unveiling the mystery of a woman's soul by John Eldredge for A Clockwork Orange ?
I tried A Clockwork Orange but only got through part of it.
... or even featured a woman in a positive light. The only ones I can remember now which were on the list were: Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange , and The Dogs of March(by a local author who would be coming to speak to the class). After a discussion with my daughter, she returned to inquire from ...
...
The Blue Hammer by Ross MacDonald
The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
Greenmantle by John Buchan
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Purple America by Rick Moody
Recollections of the Golden Triangle ...
RED: The Bloody Red Baron
ORANGE: A Clockwork Orange
YELLOW: Sin City, Book 4: That Yellow Bastard
GREEN: The Green Hills of Earth
BLUE: Atom Bomb Blues
VIOLET: Through Violet Eyes
SILVER: The Silver Kiss
GOLD: The Golden Compass
PURPLE: The Color Purple
GRAY: Hulk: Gray ...
... for Chocolate for my book club. From what I understand, it's not really my type of book and it wasn't my pick (I wanted A Clockwork Orange or Life of Pi for conversation's sake). I've been told I won't like it, but I'm being openminded, and hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
The film of A Clockwork Orange was withdrawn from future UK presentation (cinema, video, tv) by Stanley Kubrick following the initial release, when it was linked to alleged 'copycat' crimes.
Burgess didn't particularly like the film because it used the original US text, which due to a ...
#84 - I have. I really enjoyed it (but note: I also like The Handmaid's Tale, Riddley Walker, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, A Clockwork Orange , that kind of thing. If you don't, you won't, I suspect.)
... makes the book seem better in retrospect, and the book helps make the movie more poignant.
Also, I loved Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange . It *was* quite different from the book, which *was* really annoying at times, but for the most part I was too busy laughing! I can't really say the ...
... books on evolution should be banned?
One more kind of tangent-y thing .. can one of our UK LTers fill me in on the Clockwork Orange situation over there? Was that banned over there? Or was that something more to do with Anthony Burgess himself?
... to buy to make the unsuggestions less surprising! (People who own Knitting Over The Edge (which I don't) don't own A Clockwork Orange , Robinson Crusoe, or Lady Chatterley's Lover at all, and very few of us own Northanger Abbey or Emma? Goodness. Have to fix that!)
... so if you haven't already read it-pick it up.
I, as well, recommend The Handmaid's Tale, Anthem, Alongside Night, A Clockwork Orange and Gun, with Occasional Music (one of my all time favorites, I just finished it a few months ago, Lethem is such a great writer).
I also just ...
... son
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson The Secret History - Donna Tartt A Clockwork Orange - Anthony BurgessHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte< ...
... "adult" fiction with my friends' parents, and they were always initially surprised that I was reading The Kite Runner or A Clockwork Orange instead of The Princess Diaries, and that I could hold an intelligent conversation regarding them.
Then again, I'm 16, which is largely considered ...
I am finally reading a A Clockwork Orange . I saved this one to read in Celabration of Banned book week.
A Clockwork Orange strikes me as a work that is excellent as both novel and film. Kubrick, to my mind, sticks quite closely to the novel but manages to expand it into the cinematic realm. The main difference is the ending which is different partly because, when the book was originally published ...
slajaunie.. oh no oh no...
there is no way that A Clockwork Orange in film version even compares to the book. One of the book's defining characteristics is the play on language. This makes it remarkable literature. THe only thing remarkable about the film is that it is not a remarkable piece ...
To Kill a Mockingbird and Clockwork Orange were two books where I thought the movie was better. Mockingbird the book got a little tedious, Clockwork Orange the book was not a bad, but when you let a director like Kubrick adapt it, there's a very good chance his vision is going to end up much ...
A Clockwork Orange . Well, the full version. Not necessarily "life-affirming," but more along the lines of... people do eventually grow up, and most of us turn into tolerable sorts of people when we do.
Just noticed another dystopian on the shelf: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I enjoyed this book, I was thrown by the Language for a while but once I got in to it it knd of flowed like a poem, a vivid, startaling and very desterbing poem!
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Road to the Civil War by Brian Michael Bendis.
Graphic novel: part ...
