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A Clockwork Orange is a futuristic book that shows the years to come filled with drugs and violence. It is also very sexual orientated, so it is for mature readers. This book also has it's own language, the Nadstat lanuage, used by the teenagers. The book revolves around four friends that form a nocternal gang. They go to school durring the day and reek havoc at night. Their nightly actions consist of robbery, drugs, fights, and rapes. The only thing that seperates this gang from the many others is that it is lead by a teenager that believes that the only thing better than a night full of drugs is a night full of Ludwig Van Beethoven's beautiful music. This book has it's own language created from Russian and the Author's creativity. It is difficult to read because of that, but there is a key in the back of the book to help you. Some examples of the language are: eggs-eggiweggs, stomach-guttiwats, and Ludwig Van Beethoven-Oh Ludwig Van. Due to mature content and the difficult style of this book I do not recomend this book to anybody younger than 16 although I am 14 and I truly enjoyed it.

The Clockwork Orange is definitely an interesting and strange novel. From the first page on, the reader gets trapped to reading into a new language. The language however hard to interpret truly gets the reader engaged into the writing. I believe that the language helps to get the reader involved and as the story goes on the language gets easier and easier to understand. I am about halfway through the story and as I go on it keeps getting better. I'm finding myself in the mind of Alex (the self-proclaimed narrator of the story). I never want to put down the book because it is so enticing. Although a bit violent and gruesome the story really is exciting to read. The one thing that I absolutely loved about the book is the fact that Anthony Burgess incorporated the title, The Clockwork Orange, into the book. He did this by writing up a scene where Alex and his friends confront an author who is actually writing a book called The Clockwork Orange. I have to admit I am not an avid reader but this book is really grabbing my attention. The Clockwork Orange starts out by introducing Alex and all his droogs. Droogs are what they call friends. The author also goes on to describe the area in which they live in and the atmosphere. One night Alex and his fellow droogs go out and have a night on the town. However your perception and their perception of having fun are completely different. They go out to cause trouble. Stealing, fighting, and raping are just three things that they love to do with other people. Once they feel like the police are leading to them, they give up for the night. The next day Alex stays home from school and finds himself more trouble to get into. That same night, after a few fights break out between his droogs, they all set out to cause more mischief.

Well my brothers the adventures of young Alex and his 'droogs' will have you incaptivated, shocked and amused forget the pseudo-intellectualisation of good and evil and the semantics of free will. From under-age sex to brutality and violence young Alex explores the whole gamut of depravity. As an English reviwer where the film of this great novel is still banned and Anthony Burgess is somewhat underlooked in literary circles his writing from historical novels to the eponymous Mr.Enderby collect dust in second hand book shops throughout this land. Like the author, live life as if it were a book rather than through a book, this is the gift 'A Clockwork Orange' represents rather than an over emphasisation of a moral duality....So what are you waiting for get clicking that mouse and order an adventure today.

This is the only recording I've found of Anthony Burgess reading from A Clockwork Orange. Unbelieveable.

This book is great. The slang useage was a wonderful idea, and while the book might seem unrealistic at times, it makes you wonder about society. A must read.

a film to be watched by people who belive in freedom of choich and to see what a person is like with out that freedom to make any choich for himself.

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.

My understanding of this book, in short, is that no matter how evil and corrupt a person can be, they can always be changed and reaccepted into society, although, not completely as the possibilty of guilt still lays in the back of a person (or society's) mind, which can drive anybody to the brink of insanity. A classic masterpiece