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A Clockwork Orange

By Anthony Burgess, Blake Morrison (Preface)

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780141182605

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"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times

Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturContinue

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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange comes under the heading of "books you feel you ought to have read by now". Mostly these are books that you don't necessarily want to read, but are considered such classics that an inability to pass any kind of comment upon them sug ... (read full critics)

thebookbag published on Thu, 30 Jun 2011

19 Reviews

3 people find this helpful

If this book doesn't compel you to go dratsing with your baddiwad droogies, giving some poor bratchny a horrorshow tolchok, then heading to the Korovo Milk Bar for some moloko and vellocet while viddying for some sladky devotchkas to give a good lubbilubbing to...then you're a Bog-damn gloopy nazz.< ... (continue)

If this book doesn't compel you to go dratsing with your baddiwad droogies, giving some poor bratchny a horrorshow tolchok, then heading to the Korovo Milk Bar for some moloko and vellocet while viddying for some sladky devotchkas to give a good lubbilubbing to...then you're a Bog-damn gloopy nazz.
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Danelectrico said on Dec 5, 2007 | Add your feedback

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First book by Burgess.
I haven't seen Kubrick's film yet, so I decided to read the story of the book first. I must confess that the "new" language was a barrier at the beginning.
I wanted to abandon the book, but fortunately I managed to finish it. The plot seems the excuse to hide the real ... (continue)

First book by Burgess.
I haven't seen Kubrick's film yet, so I decided to read the story of the book first. I must confess that the "new" language was a barrier at the beginning.
I wanted to abandon the book, but fortunately I managed to finish it. The plot seems the excuse to hide the real thing: "Good" and "Evil" in the human nature.
Not a bad and postive finding.

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Giacomo said on Jun 29, 2011 | Add your feedback

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But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don´t go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? [...] What I do I do because I like to do

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Harpblues said on Feb 14, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Una atrapante novela de Anthony Burguess que narra las peripecias de Alex,un joven con una mente retorcida y peculiar y con una perspectiva de la vida extraña.La novela es atrapante en extremo,de facil lectura y que incluye un elemento loable: la introduccion del lenguaje nadstdat (creado por Burgue ... (continue)

Una atrapante novela de Anthony Burguess que narra las peripecias de Alex,un joven con una mente retorcida y peculiar y con una perspectiva de la vida extraña.La novela es atrapante en extremo,de facil lectura y que incluye un elemento loable: la introduccion del lenguaje nadstdat (creado por Burguess para la novela).Recomendable para publicos adultos.

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Marce Picon said on Jan 31, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

great book

Very well written kept me hooked

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kenrick bould said on Dec 5, 2011 | Add your feedback

" but you, o my brothers, remember sometimes thy little alex that was. amen. and all that cal. "

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kovalski said on Nov 27, 2011 | Add your feedback