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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

ISBN: 9780140274097
Release Date: 03 Sep 1998
Average rating: (read by 299 members)

Categories: Modern fiction , Crime & mystery , Science fiction

'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Burgess writes of social prophecy and free will in this black comedy.

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	wetwebwork
	Rated it 3 months ago

A classic. Didn't realize there was a glossary at the book of the book when I first read it, and possibly enjoyed it all the more for being dropped into their world unprepared.

	Tenshi43 Full Review
	Rated it 5 months ago

A dystopian future? This novel is probably more relevant today than any time in the past. Rich dark humour, amazing dialogue, and a moral tale about the importance of WANTING to be good. Influenced by a true event in Burgess's life, you won't have...

	harpie
	Rated it 5 months ago

Such a masterpiece, once you get into the groove of the new language this book just pulls you in and spits you out.

Interestingly a girl I knew willingly nicknamed herself 'starry' having never read the book. I never stopped laughing at her :)

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