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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
+ fun to follow slang
+ entertaining plot
+ good pacing
+ great character development
- sexist mc and some gross scenes
+ entertaining plot
+ good pacing
+ great character development
- sexist mc and some gross scenes
challenging
dark
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was difficult to get into this audiobook. The language made it hard to understand at first but I eventually came around. I night revisit it someday with a physical copy.
This book has a very interesting plot, but the 'ultra-violence' is simply so upsetting that I feel like meaning is lost. This book, however, is something to think about and one that I'll probably be mulling over for awhile.
"A Clockwork Orange" is one of those books you can mangle the title of for some TV show episode and most people will get the reference, but if you ask your buddies if they've read it, you're probably going to get some shrugs, at most.
This is likely because upon opening the book one is hit with slang like a brick to the face and then timidly given a glossary. It might be about a boy "whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven", but it is also about a good deal of linguistics. Props to Burgess for creating a nigh-unpalatable combo of incredible violence (tends to reduce your audience) and hard work on the part of the reader (tends to reduce your audience). However, a hundred pages in it is a seamless read, and there's actually a fair bit of context offered for slang words and even some flat-out explanations by Alex. They just happen not to be at the beginning. As for violence, yes, it's bad, but it didn't make my stomach do loops the way I assumed it might. A slightly concerning indication of how much violence is already in the media? ...Potentially?
This review will be spoiler-light, but the final chapter does offer a very different experience from the movie/edited book, and is stronger for it. It offers a kind of "third option", as you will, and a more universal one at that.
This is likely because upon opening the book one is hit with slang like a brick to the face and then timidly given a glossary. It might be about a boy "whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven", but it is also about a good deal of linguistics. Props to Burgess for creating a nigh-unpalatable combo of incredible violence (tends to reduce your audience) and hard work on the part of the reader (tends to reduce your audience). However, a hundred pages in it is a seamless read, and there's actually a fair bit of context offered for slang words and even some flat-out explanations by Alex. They just happen not to be at the beginning. As for violence, yes, it's bad, but it didn't make my stomach do loops the way I assumed it might. A slightly concerning indication of how much violence is already in the media? ...Potentially?
This review will be spoiler-light, but the final chapter does offer a very different experience from the movie/edited book, and is stronger for it. It offers a kind of "third option", as you will, and a more universal one at that.
I thought the language was going to be an issue but it was so well written that it served as an instrument to the story, rather than a barrier.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
have not stopped thinking about the experience of watching the film in a theater with malcolm mcdowell in the house and hearing his obviously amazing insights on the making of the film etc so I had to finally read the book. it’s perfect!! 100% agree with kubrick’s decision to omit the final chapter though
Read it over break a year or two ago. Maybe I'll give this one another go at some point, but mostly I was too disturbed to enjoy it or draw much meaning from it.