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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Start date: October 1, 2014

Finish date: October 31, 2014

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Dec 10, 2011 Zsu rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: current-favourites, lit-fiction

Such an amazing book. Not only is it mind-numbingly original with the new 'nadsat' talk used throughout the book, but it's laced with all these underlying issues about free will and original sin that are explained so frankly and blatantly that you whizz through it.

I'm not going to give anything away about the plot, but I must say it kept me reading continually. First, I have to admit the slang threw me off from reading it at all but after a few pages, I got into it very easily and by the end of ...more

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Dec 23, 2011 Kira rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, sci-fi, classics, 5-stars, book-bucket-list, dystopian

With many people warning me about how horribly graphic this novel is, I was very hesitant at first.
After I bought the novel, I read the blurb and words such as "15-year-old", "ultra-violence" and "rape" really stuck out at me, I questioned whether I was going to enjoy the ideas brought forward in the novel but once again I chose to go forward with it.
There is pretty much, NEVER a dull moment within each single chapter. There is always something happening which entertains me and keeps me reading ...more

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