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	• A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess W. W. Norton & Company, 1986 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 619 reviews view larger image
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dont be too fast to judge this book

If you read the subject of this you're bound to be turned off, BUT before you completely cast this book aside look into the inspiration for the story.
The dialogue alone makes this book great! find yourself a nadsat glossary online (http://soomka.com/nadsat.html)

I think this is a book that just grows on you, and you really need to give it a chance.

Real horrorshow, O my brothers...

Having never saw the movie, I didn't exactly know what to expect from the original book, but I was not disappointed. Suitibly creepy, the world this takes place in is not that implausible. A semi-totalitarian government rules the day, adolescent street gangs rule the night, the cops are recruited from the street gangs, so as redirect their violence into "constructive" activities, and the prisons are so overflowing with political prisoners that there is barely any room for actual criminals. The central plot centers on a governemnt experiment to eliminate crime through mind control, and leaves the reader asking, "Is it better to be evil by one's own choice than to be good without a choice?"

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this book was one of the best books i've ever read. although at first it was difficult to get past the nadsat speak, once you catch on (and you do) it's amazing.

Beth Roskilly AP English

Although not the easiest book to read because of the author's diction, I found the novel well worth the effort. A Clockwork Orange is the story of a fictitious (but not all around improbable) society in which the protagonist, Alex, is a young heathen and criminal. He enjoys wretched activities such as vandalizing, stealing, and raping.
Life begins to turn sour for him when the police finally catch him. He is taken to a prison, and chosen to be an experimental guinea pig in a new brainwashing or "curing" process. Upon finally being considered "cured" some questions of the ethics of the process arise. Caught in the middle of a heated controversy, Alex, now the victim instead of the benefactor of this society, is left to fend for himself and try to live with his will virtually sucked out of his being. This is where the term "a clockwork orange" becomes relevant to his life.
Overall, the theme the author conveys in this book is rather thought provoking, which I found to be the most enjoyable part of the book. I finished the relatively short novel feeling eager to ruminate on this question of morality. Is it right to making a being safer to society at the expense of his soul? It is a puzzling and unanswerable question that the author well represented in this novel of potential quandary.

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We all know Alex

Anthony Burgess rips open our minds, throws in an entire imaginary universe and sews it back together, leaving the universe with us forever in his style-driven novel, "A Clockwork Orange."

Burgess weaves the English language with Russian slang to create a fictional teenage dialect for our protagonist, Alex and his gang of "droogs." These characters shock us with their extracurricular activities of raping women, beating up bums and exploring hallucinogenic drugs at the age of 15.

The crimes catch up to this villain that we want to hate, but can't. Alex takes the fall for his droogs and receives a 15-year prison sentence. However, Alex's doctors have been working on a case study, "Ludovico's Technique." They offer Alex the opportunity to participate in this experiment as an alternative to prison.

Alex does what any 15 year old would do and takes what seems the less painful choice. Ludovico's Technique is an experiment designed to condition its subject to lose their evil tendencies and become the "perfect Christian." This technique comes right out of Psychology 101. Dr. John B. Watson first conducted the experiment with a rat and a child in the "Little Albert" case study.

Although Burgess creates a new world, he leaves our imaginations to fill in our own world. "A Clockwork Orange" will have the reader questioning the dangers of conformity, the roles of society and their own existence. "A Clockwork Orange" should be read with an open mind. It took me two weeks to get past the first chapter, but once I did, I never wanted to put it down.

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