A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange
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Author: Anthony Burgess
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1986-11
ISBN: 0393312836
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Book Review: The colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the page
Summary: 5 Stars

To say that A Clockwork Orange is a "controversial" piece of media is an understatement: militant feminists and "family values" activists have gone so far as to remove this book from library shelves. It has been hailed as genius satire and denounced as violent exploitation. Some read it as Burgess's own depraved rape fantasies. Other people will argue that it's an attempt to get into the heads of the young men who gang-raped his pregnant wife. Others read it as a piece of chaotic, post-modern art to be appreciated by the edgy and the hip.
A Clockwork Orange may be all of those things and more. What it is most of all, however, is an amazing, sweeping, page-turning read.
Burgess takes the reader inside the mind of Alex, the leader of a small youth gang, all of whom enjoy nothing more than imbibing mind-altering substances, giving women a bit of the old in and out (whether they like it or not) and beating up the poor. This all changes, however, when Alex is arrested and given the chance to participate in an experiment to cure his sociopathy and turn him into a fine, upstanding member of society.
While Alex's violence and the moral quandary posed by the experiment form part of the sick, prurient excitement of the book, none of it would work nearly as well without Alex's cynical and humorous tongue-in-cheek narration, told in a fictional Slavic-inspired slang language that may be difficult to comprehend the first few pages, but soon becomes readily clear.
With Alex, Burgess takes the anti in anti-hero to new levels, to the point where he can barely be called a hero if not for the fact that his observations and asides are strangely and hilariously charming.

Summary of A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author.

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