A vicious fifteen-tear-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "at what cost?"
I suggest watch the movie first than reading the book. The movie is way more fun than reading it. I've had to read over sentences countless amount of times just to know what the character is saying.
@nicademuss OHGOODNESSHEREWEGO:
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey (my favorite everrr)
My Friend Leonard - James Frey (must be read AFTER the A Million Little Pieces)
Crank
Glass
Fallout
Impulse
Burned
Identical
Tricks - allll by Ellen Hopkins
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Looking for Alaska - John Greene
Anything Stephen King
Heavier than Heaven (it's a biography, and it's over Kurt Cobain, not sure if you know who that is, but the book is A+)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
Party Monster- James St. James (This is one of my favorite books of all time.. It's true and hilarious.. and Macaulay Culkin is wonderful in the film)
The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising, Red Dragon --Thomas Harris
I like transgressional fiction (Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs), coming of age stories(The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Looking for Alaska), and comedies. Also classical horror (mainly H.P. Lovecraft and a little Poe). I like lotsa stuff, really. A good read is a good time. Not gonna comment on the twilight series though. I'll just leave that alone.
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satirical futuristic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. The film concerns Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultra-violence. He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, “friend”, “buddy”). Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured, contemporary adolescent argot comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
@Baghead777 LMAO @Gonad's It's about a young dude (18 - 21 I think) who get's his happiness most from tormenting other's. Basically it's a movie half about the shock effect of cinema (Alot of people still are shocked at how full on with the violence this movie is) and the other half is to see his rehabilitation into everyday normal society. It is an excellent movie. It's old (Well it was made in in 1971) but it's a classic film. If you like the movie I would highly suggest the book that it is based on (A clock work orange by Anthony Burgess)
@Dreadster It's "Nadsat" language, made up mostly from Russian words in the book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. It means "girl loves tea", effectively. Because I darn well do.
