I'm now going to allow myself to see this film, now that I've read the entire book, including the redemption/change final chapter that was so gallingly removed from the US versions for so long. I've never seen Kubrick's film because I knew I wanted to read the book first. This is marked as "dystopia...
Alright, there is a lot going on in this little piece of poison dripping, mind-fuck of a story, and I don't know that I'm up to the task. First of all, because it's the immediate, I call bullshit on that end (I'm talking of the 21th chapter that was cut-out of the USA version; if you've not read i...
It must have been more than ten years since I first read A Clockwork Orange and I still remember what a struggle I had with this one! Thanks to all the nadsat expressions I didn’t pony cul as our little droog Alex would say. I have to admit that now, after having learned Russian (at least to a certa...
This is a book that is easy to read and discount for its violent content, but if one is willing to look deeper there are important themes that we can learn from, as exist in all great dystopian novels."Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?"That is the central question asked in A Clockwor...
I enjoyed it. But that's about it. This isn't going to be one of those classics that's gonna stick with me forever. I don't see myself rereading this anytime soon. But I sure am happy to have that cover on my bookshelve, cause I just love it. It took me quite a bit to get into the writing, I reall...
I had watched this when I was a teenager. We watched all the "punk" movies that we could and this was one of them. So I knew what to expect. The slang from the book would have been a little harder to understand if I hadn't of taken Russian as my language in college. But I liked the book, it is j...
This is one of those books that I should have read a long time ago, primarily because I was assigned it in an English class I took in college, and though I should have read it at that time I didn't. Yet the more I think about it it was probably for the best. Had I read it then I wouldn't have apprec...
I fail to see why there is so much love for this book... It's a coming of age story, it has 'fancy' slang and controversial topics. Great! But I didn't feel as though there was much meaning behind it. Alex didn't learn his lesson, he simply 'grew up'... WHAT?I don't feel there was any sort of guilt...
I can't believe it took me so long to get around to reading this book. Absolutely amazing! I loved it. From the start, it is a little difficult to understand because Alex speaks in Nadsat, a language Burgess created drawing heavily from Russian influence as well as shortened English slang. Once you ...
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