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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Start date: October 1, 2014

Finish date: October 31, 2014

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May 24, 2012 Cecily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: film-good-or-better-than-book, dystopian-apocalyptic, classics, miscellaneous-fiction, language-related, unreliable-narrators

How to review an infamous book about which so much has already been said? By avoiding reading others’ thoughts until I’ve written mine.

There are horrors in this book, but there is beauty too, and so much to think about. The ends of the book justify the means of its execution, even if the same is not true of what happens in the story.

Book vs Film, and Omission of Final Chapter

I saw the film first, and read the book shortly afterwards. Usually a bad idea, but in this case, being familiar with the ...more

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Nov 24, 2016 Δx Δp ≥ ½ ħ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: maxwell-s-silver-hammer, i-me-mine, a-day-in-the-life, strawberry-fields-forever

When I read a novel, I imagine that the novel is like an earphone commercial. A silhouette of a person walks calmly down the street while the shadow dances wildly against a background wall. When the novel is considered as an important/ masterpiece/ classic/ canon/ magnum opus of literary, I see the shadow takes over the story at the whoa-omygod-moments.

The readers immediately know that the shadow is more important than the character or the story itself, and stucks in their mind forever. Then, w ...more

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Feb 28, 2011 Ben rated it liked it

Shelves: owned-calibre

A good book that asks provocative questions. I think it would be particularly appropriate for young people as one of the issues addressed is the radically different perspectives that can occur for someone as they grow up and see the world in different ways. The use of a special lexicon is interesting. I'd be interested in discussing it's purpose versus the cost it imposes on the readers understanding. I'm not sure but I'd lean towards it's an unnecessary indulgence on the authors part. ...more

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