A Clockwork Orange
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4.0 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.
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After his youthful adventures of raping and pillaging, Alex finds himself in prison. When he volunteers for an experiment, his sentence is commuted to two weeks. The experiment leaves him physically incapable of doing wrong and releases him back into the world. However, when he repeatedly runs into people he has wronged in the past, his real suffering begins. This audiobook gives new life to Burgess's tale of recklessly violent youth, free will and true redemption. While Malcolm McDowell forever infused viewers with the look of Alex in the film, Tom Hollander performs an even more amazing feat. With a smooth, almost lyrical, crisp voice, Hollander delivers Burgess's "nadsat" dialect to readers with such rhythmic cadence that listeners will easily understand the extensive slang used throughout the book. This unabridged production also includes the 21st chapter, which was not dramatized in the film or in the book's original U.S. publication. The audiobook opens with a brief note by Burgess on living with the book's legacy. The final CD features selected readings by Burgess from a previous recorded abridged version. While it's interesting to hear the older and gruffer voice, it does not compare to Hollander's performance. A Penguin paperback.
Customer Reviews
Not for the faint of heart but well made
It was a little hard to read because of all the Nadsat slang, but it was an interesting story about brainwashing a sociopathic teen
my favourite book of all time
what a cool aesthetic. when i read books, i try to look for Spotify playlists to listen to while reading to help get me in the vibe and the music for this book is so cool. there are so many different lenses in the story so really, i think its for mostly everyone (i say mostly because it depends on what genre youre into and what vibes you like). im not even joking when i tell you that my study breaks were reading this book.
Winding and clever
Inspired language, though not my favourite book. Something kind of topsy turvy about it.