A Clockwork Orange question

Isn't politically correct censorship of the classics verging on 1984?

I wasn't the biggest fan of this book, I found it quite pointless and it bored me. HOWEVER, removing it from a public library based on the fact that the language in it offended someone is ridiculous. Not only is it patronising to you average adults intelligence to decide whether that want to read the book or not, it's also kind of dictating what is and isn't appropriate to read which is surely an individual decision.

The book was quite violent bt I don't remember the language being any different to a lot of other books. As someone else pointed out, a lot of the words used were made up anyway. If it's the violence then surely the content would be objectionable not the language?

That's just bizarre ... unless what you heard was that it was the Kubrick movie that they've pulled from the libraries. That would make more sense.

I've never been to Canada (Canada right?) but I can't believe they would pull the book. Not unless they pull a dozen other books, starting with American Psycho for one.

Fantastic book honestly two things I would suggest:
1 Watch the movie first honestly it will helo
2 Try and get an older copy of the book because that's the one that has the dictionary in the back

They have been censoring "Huckleberry Finn" by removing all instances of the "N-word" and replacing it with "slave", so I wouldn't be surprised.

Same with a lot of books now , they apparently stopped making one of the noddy books as he was in bed with big ears in one picture ...
And they have renamed the characters in enid blytons faraway tree as the characters were called dick and fanny ....

Leave our literature alone , I think classics should be seen as they are in their time period

I still have a copy of agatha Christies book before they changed it to and then there were none ..

I am a huge fan of objectionable language! I am deeply offended that it should be removed from literature.

"Objectionable language"? For A Clockwork Orange? Uhm, has anyone read that book? It was written in a made-up futuristic lingo called nadsat. What on earth could they consider "objectionable" about Alex saying "Horrorshow" or "Devotchka" or performing the old "in out/in out" or looking at a woman's "groodies"...The foul, objectionable language was replaced with a weird mix of gypsy, singsong, and russian lingo that actually softened much of the abject violence and sadistic nature of the story.

Controversial book? Sure. But so is a lot of great literature that challenges preconceived notions and pushes the envelope of storytelling.

Objectionable language? (rolling my eyes) That's a really silly argument since the people who object to profanity will actually be surprised to find none in this book. Unless they are fluent in Nadsat (a made up language)...then they might find it objectionable. But gosh...really?

AHHH!!! WHY!? Seriously? God, people are ridiculous sometimes. It makes me think of the letter in the back of Fahrenheit 451 from Ray Bradbury about how people had actually asked if they could censor it to be appropriate for high school. And he was like "NO! HELLO!?"

This is why we NEED books like this in schools and libraries. For me, this book was such a powerful story, and it really speaks to what is wrong with the world. I loved it for that reason, and I honestly think that more books with violence, sex, drugs, etc. should be taught, because it gives insight to the reality of things--that this planet and society are not the sugarcoated versions of bullshit that schools today try and make it out to be. There is cruelty, violence and evil out there and we need to stop working around it or avoiding it. Reality is not 'inappropriate' or 'objectionable'...it is reality.

In the copy of A Clockwork Orange that I have, there was a preface by Anthony Burgess saying that when the book was originally published, his American publishers actually REMOVED the last chapter, where Alex essentially reforms himself without the government's intervention. Burgess described how the removal was against his wishes, and basically changes the entire moral of the tale from one that is "Kennedyan" to one that is more "Nixonian", which Burgess suspected fit the politics of his American publisher a little more closely. It was this version of the book that Kubrick read, and eventually based his movie on.

Protesting to remove books from public libraries in the US is a constant process, with the books usually those that are annoying to somebody's religious sensibilities, not "PC" issues, although those show up, too.

Huck Finn, and its use of the "N-word" is a very rare case of a book being objected to because a once acceptable word has become unacceptable. A Clockwork Orange is more like most of the other books protested because of the nature of the subject. Other examples include The Bridge to Terabitha and anything by Charles Darwin. In many communities, anything not promoting "American values" (whatever they are; at one time "American values" included violent racism, as promulgated by the KKK, ethnic bigotry, as exemplified by the Know-Nothings and the eugenics movement of the early 20th Century, and religious intolerance, as exemplified by the Puritans) is the main cause of protests.