Have you ever read A Clockwork Orange?

Question

Whats the book about? A couple of people have told me its a good book, and I was thinking of going out to get it. Just wondering what its about, and if its good?

Answer 1

The book is actually a backhanded comment on the failure of rehabilitaion of criminals.

Alex is the leader of a small band of hoodlums in futuristic Great Britian. He and his gang drink milk (yep..believe it or not) at a milk bar and in general cause all sorts of mayhem by beating people and raping for laughs and being completely lawless. Alex becomes particualry violent and sexually sadistic any time he hears anything done by Beethoven.
In short time Alex is arrested by the police after his gang turns on him. he's sent to prison and volunteers for an early release program. The program consists of having his eyes pinned open and head forced in place so he can't turn away while he's shown films of violence. He's been given a serum prior and of course the serum is designed to make him sick to his stomach. All the while as he's forced to view these films, Beethoven is played in the background. Eventually the idea is that anytime he's exposed to violence or hears Beethoven he becomes violently ill and can't stop vomiting.
Of course once he's released from prison, he happens to run into his old gang who ironically (and again another backhanded comment) have become policemen. They proceed to beat him senseless and he's defenseless because he's just to ill to fight. this happens with every single person he ends up meeting who prior to his imprisonment and treatment were victims of HIS crimes.

There is a rape scene in the book that was horrifically brutal and was actually based on the real life event when the author of the book, Anthony Burgess was forced to watch his wife being raped repeatedly by (if I recall correctly) Russian or german soldiers during WW2.

Answer 2

I examine the instruction manual long before than I observed the action picture, and as quickly as I did see the action picture i became as quickly as quite disenchanted by it. I evaluate once you think approximately that it have been overvalued a lot (banned and all that). I disagree with each and every physique else concerning the vocabulary used in the e book. that is meant to signify teenage slang, and as such that isn't any harder to envision than between the considered necessary people who submit solutions on right here making use of text fabric talk and planned mis-spellings. I basically be taught my way by an respond the area the girl used q in spite of this of g for the size of! probably there's a sub-set of people on earth who evaluate it rather is basically in all likelihood the main stable creativity ever, in the different case no person might do it. yet I digress. I had no project in any respect in working the words out from context. If I inform you that somebody kneed each and every physique ideal in the xzypkgq and he doubled over in disease consisting of his eyes crossed, definitely you does no longer might desire to look that be conscious up in a dictionary to look regardless of if or no longer it ought to propose "pitta bread" or "Monday" or, oooh ought to it very possibly be, "balls"? The e-e book is like that. the guy who wrote this is a approaches from a stupid guy or woman. anyhow, i might propose you examine the instruction manual. As for it messing up your suggestions, whilst you're considerable adequate and unsightly adequate to envision the action picture without might desire to bypass out and stab persons afterwards then i'm effective which you are going to be able to handle the e-e book!

Answer 3

The films pretty good, but I dont care for the book, but it's interesting. The guy who wrote the book tried to ban the film because you were made to syphasize with a criminal, not what his book is supposed to be about!

Answer 4

It's superb but brutal. It is written in a kind of slang language and is set in a near future. Alex and his three " droogs" go out for a bit of "ultraviolence" involving all kinds of nastiness.

It is a deeply moral book written by a catholic writer the late Anthony Burgess. It explores human nature, individual choices and the nature of evil. Its also darkly funny. Also another one his I enjoyed was a "Dead man in Deptford".
It is quality writing but not to everyone's taste.

Answer 5

erm...i'm supposed to read it apparently, it's a recommended book for my year at school but i can't be bothered. appatently it's scary, but even that's not enough to tempt me into reading it. i looked on the net but there isn't really very much about it on there. i would recommend getting it from the libary and seeing what it's like. sorry i can't be of more help.