A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | Book Review

I review & discuss the classic book 'A Clockwork Orange' written by Anthony Burgess and first published in 1962. This piece is a favourite of mine out of sheer nostalgia, but also my admiration of its symbolistic and linguistic prose.

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[TheJudgeandtheJury]

Great review, A Clockwork Orange was one of the few books I read as a teenager that wasn’t from Cormac McCarthy. I remember the book’s ending being different from the movie, however my memory might be conflated with the movie itself.

[mindhunterasmr]

i have not read the book but i will probably pick it up at some point. i did watch the movie several times years ago though. left QUITE an impression. it almost seems like kubrik's own grim interpretation won over the bit of optimism the book seems to give us which is why the movie turned out so hopelessly dark. whenever i think of clockwork orange i think of the contrast between the brutality and the violence the viewer is witnessing on screen vs. the classic pieces they chose to play in the background. i think that in a way, it goes to show that no matter how much society thinks we've progressed with technology and civilization, at the end of the day basic violent nature is rooted so deep inside that we can't smooth it over using nice big words. kind of like what you said about alex - he's charismatic, he's articulate, so it's easy to fall into this deceiving trap he's laying.
i do tend to lean towards nurture over nature because, call me an optimist, but i think we're capable of learning and improving - if, again, a person is able to look at themselves from a critical POV completely unbiased etc and yes, it is indeed very hard to achieve.
I enjoy (as you can probably guess already haha) looking into personality disorders and I fully believe that sociopaths are a byproduct of society. we've become a society of strangers, so disconnected and desensitized that we're constantly chasing the next and better high. i definitely think of alex as someone who got lost in that void, and while we were made to watch as he did some pretty awful things on screen, by the end of the movie i remember feeling quite bad for him and how he ended up.
very insightful as always. really enjoyed listening to this!

[JonathanRossignol]

Ignorant individuals will never learn from their mistakes.
Intelligent individuals will learn from their mistakes.
Wise individuals will learn from the mistakes of others.

However, the human condition is such that it is difficult for most people to acquire wisdom without experience (because most minds do not possess the faculties to conceptualize something that their senses never had to discern). Life in it and of itself is an individualized experience, but the catch 22 is that there are things in life that someone can experience in which they cannot forget (even if they wanted to). Therefore, the individual is never quite the same as they were before the experiences that caused the changes in their perception. On the surface, change is just a word (neither positive nor negative), but in reality it alters everything (for better or for worse).
#LFLR
"VBW"

[danielsgarden]

Totally surprised ur school had clock work orange- thought it was only available for 18 plus like american psycho