Norton Paperback Fiction: A Clockwork Orange (Hardcover)

from SqueakyChu

I enjoyed this book very much. Be forewarned, though, that this book contains the kind of graphic violence that may be off-putting to sensitive readers. Sometimes, when I read fiction containing violence, I say to myself that this is just a story and try to read the narrative without making a val...

from ScoLgo

Was glad to get my rookers on this one. I mostly stayed on my sharries while my glazzies fair ate it up like a tasty bit of kleb with some jammiwam. It's a dobby raskazz with a dorogoy message. The Nadsat is a bit of a rabbit to wrap one's gulliver around. At first it near drove me bezoomy but af...

from siafl

The book started off being a bit hard to read, but once I got used to the language, which is described as "odd bits of old rhyming slang, a bit of gipsy talk. But most of the roots are Slav. Propaganda. Subliminal penetration." (86), it turned into being a lot of fun to read. In the end I had mos...

from littleman

Do narrators come anymore distinctive than Alex? Astonishing stuff; one of the most distinctive novels I've ever consumed. Brilliant stuff.

from crazy4reading

I don't know where to begin in writing a review for A Clockwork Orange. I have heard of this book before and of the movie. I have not seen the movie and didn't read anything about the book prior to deciding to read the book. The language in the book makes it very difficult to read A Clockwork Ora...