A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 149 pages

Ratings515

Average rating3.9

15

This is the original version with an extra chapter at the end that was not included in the American version and thus not include in the Kubrick movie.
A book exploring teenage thugs and human rights. Is it a human right to have the choice to kill and maim others? Is it a right to exact revenge on another human? Counter conditioning to render a person to be unable to enact harm on another- a perfect rehabilitation or does it take away free will? This book is told in the slang laced and droll voice of the young author as he enjoys life through violence. Many of the scenes are squirm inducing but the narrator voice stays engaging.
The additional chapter changes the whole story even though it is relative short. The character becomes bored with violence and starts to grow up.

December 1, 2011