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Title: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-393-31283-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (473 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not the tastiest fruit I've tried, but pretty good
Comment: A Clockwork Orange is a good book in many ways, but it falls short of being an enduring masterpiece. Anthony Burgess himself was chagrined that this book became his best known novel, its fame assured by Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation. The book has an imaginative first-person writing style that is replete with a slang built mostly from Russian words. This edition contains a twenty-first chapter that had been removed from the first American edition of the book. In his introduction, Burgess rails bitterly against this omission, but I have to say that I agree with the American editor. Chapter 21 transforms the book from a disturbing vision of the future into an overly simplistic allegory on human nature. Burgess' message? That the urge to violence and destruction is natural and unavoidable among the youth of a decaying society, but they'll grow out of it and become productive, nurturing adults (I guess Burgess forgot about such grownups as Hitler and Stalin). It is an oddly weak note on which to end one of the most forceful and disturbing novellas of the 20th century.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ TO DATE!
Comment: When I first began reading "A Clockwork Orange", I found it difficult and frustrating to read. The language Mr. Burgess has created is annoying at first. But after a while you don't even think about what words like "rasoodocks, rot, govereeting...etc." mean. It becomes second nature. When I finally understood these words, I found the book impossible to put down. I loved the style that Burgess wrote this masterpiece. He does not write it like a man in his fifties; he writes like the fifteen, and seventeen year old character that is Alex. The story is distorted in the way that any story would be told throught the eyes of an immature teenage "droog." Finally, the much debated final chapter. I would not dream of giving it away, but I will say that the story may suffer depending on how you percieve the Alex of this chapter. Personally, I could go either way, But it does seem more satisfying without that final chapter. I HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMEND this FANTASTIC, FANTASTIC Novel.
Rating: 4
Summary: interesting disutopic sci-fi book
Comment: An interesting disutopic sci-fi book on alienation, violence and misogyny. It was even more interesting when I read that it had been published with different endings.
I wasn't as impressed with Burgess' using non-English words, because I speak Russian and that's all the "slang" really was. (Example, the Russian word for Friend is Droog; Hand is Ryka; Milk is Moloko). Therefore it was immediately apparent to me though I liked the mixing of the two languages it reminded me of how I talk at home using both languages interchangeably. In a way I wish I could've read the book as most people did (who didn't use the glossary) and try to figure out the words through context.
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Title: 1984 by George Orwell, Erich Fromm ISBN: 0451524934 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 0440180295 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 03 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey ISBN: 0451163966 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060929871 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ISBN: 0316769487 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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