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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
"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.