A Clockwork Orange
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Fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends start an evening's mayhem by hitting an old man, tearing up his books and stripping him of money and clothes.
Or rather Alex and his three droogs tolchock an old veck, razrez his books, pull off his outer platties and take a malenky bit of cutter.
For Alex's confessions are written in 'nadsat' - the teenage argot of a not-too-distant future.
Because of his delinquent excesses, Alex is jailed and made subject to 'Ludovico's Technique,' a chilling experiment in Reclamation Treatment...
Horror farce? Social prophecy? Penetrating study of human choice between good and evil? A Clockwork Orange is all three, dazzling proof of Anthony Burgess's vast talents.
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Surprisingly, it didn't take long to get a hang of the 'made up' words. This book is a classic for a reason - but man, it isn't for the faint-hearted. The senseless violence does kind of get to you. I finished this book with a lot of important and heavy questions in my mind, definitely recommend for anyone who enjoys reading heavier stuff.
The first 30% of this book was really hard for me to get through because I just didn't enjoy it. While it did get better after that, I never loved it, but I am still glad that I spent the time reading it.
The author would rather never written the book had he known there would be Kubrick's movie :-) He wrote the book as a cautionary/moral story, while the movie glorified violence. I liked both, and the movie ending better, but that's just my cynical taste.
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