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gregsaysstuff 's review for:
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
There aren't a lot of books I've found that have managed to teach readers a dialect without sacrificing pace. The brilliance in A Clockwork Orange, though, mostly technical, is enough to make me actually want to read it twice, and I'm cemented firmly in the camp that the 21st chapter is necessary for closure. If it had just ended at Chapter 20, it would have just seemed too nihilistic and pretentious for my tastes, but as it stands, I found it enjoyable.
In that regard, I can't really see myself enjoying the movie half as much, as the point seems to have been making atrocities seem less atrocious by bogging them down in nigh-incomprehensible vocabulary for a first-time reader. The worst of it really comes in the first third, where you have the flimsiest grasp on the slang, so a lot of it will probably go over your head during the first go-around. Without that technical hurdle to leap, it really is just a bunch of senseless violence and shock material, so having a movie really seems to just cancel out the puzzle you've been given to solve.
In that regard, I can't really see myself enjoying the movie half as much, as the point seems to have been making atrocities seem less atrocious by bogging them down in nigh-incomprehensible vocabulary for a first-time reader. The worst of it really comes in the first third, where you have the flimsiest grasp on the slang, so a lot of it will probably go over your head during the first go-around. Without that technical hurdle to leap, it really is just a bunch of senseless violence and shock material, so having a movie really seems to just cancel out the puzzle you've been given to solve.