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A Clockwork Orange
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Komal
Oct 28, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics
A bit of a forewarning: A Clockwork Orange is not for the faint-hearted, the weak-minded or the light-boweled. It consists of extreme amounts of graphic violence and you should not take this forewarning as a psychologically-reversed urge to make you read (because, some people, Dear God).

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”

The book is, in perspective, an entire study of this one single question. Is a society, infested with disastrous figures of violence
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Belphegoris
Jun 08, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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Shelves: sci-fi
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