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A review by holmesstorybooks
Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess
4.0
Man, I really liked this book.
It was one of the first few classics that I read when I was quite young, and apart from having a hazy idea of its reputation, I knew absolutely nothing.
I found the language difficult at first, but you do really get used to it, and it is quite regular in its slang and pattern. The thing I think I appreciated the most about this book, apart from the craft of the words and how rhythmic it was, was the strength of the narrative.
A Clockwork Orange is a really good example of what happens when you write a well-constructed story and include a message. While the overall moral of the story is bold, it's also quite well-concealed within plot, characters and an arc. It is very unlike George Orwell's Animal Farm, for example, where the characters are purely to facilitate - puppets and nothing more.
Alex, the protagonist, is three dimensional. It is because he was so well-written that I fell in love with this story so much.
However, much like the reading material of my youth, I am not sure how graphic this material is, but you may want to be careful if you decide to read it. c:
It was one of the first few classics that I read when I was quite young, and apart from having a hazy idea of its reputation, I knew absolutely nothing.
I found the language difficult at first, but you do really get used to it, and it is quite regular in its slang and pattern. The thing I think I appreciated the most about this book, apart from the craft of the words and how rhythmic it was, was the strength of the narrative.
A Clockwork Orange is a really good example of what happens when you write a well-constructed story and include a message. While the overall moral of the story is bold, it's also quite well-concealed within plot, characters and an arc. It is very unlike George Orwell's Animal Farm, for example, where the characters are purely to facilitate - puppets and nothing more.
Alex, the protagonist, is three dimensional. It is because he was so well-written that I fell in love with this story so much.
However, much like the reading material of my youth, I am not sure how graphic this material is, but you may want to be careful if you decide to read it. c: