Dabnorfish

A fantastic book. Bought it on holiday and devoured it in no time at all. I'd already watched the film several times (albeit with the colours too strong and Dutch subtitles, but it was the best copy I could get, with it being banned). I'm with the people who liked the ending to the book though.

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good,_i_mean_well

This is my favorite book, but I hated the movie. I thought the movie was much less disturbing than the book, like I remember in the book the video's Alex was forced to watch were way worse than the ones in the book, and also the violence in the beginning was less than the book, and when he beat some guy up in jail he did it pretty bad.

Also I felt the movie was set too far into the future. Like at the bar there is a bartender, but in the movie it's a statue of a naked woman and the drinks come out of her breast, which I think is weird. Also Burgress never said they were strangly dressed or anything, he just keeps saying "dress in the height of fashon," which does not imply some distant way of dressing. While I was reading the book I felt this was happening in the very near future, which means the point of the book is more applicable today. However in the movie it takes place in some far off place of time, and if the theme was there it may or may not apply today, but the last chapter is missing, so it's impossible to figure out the point of the book. In short overall I hated the book.

Anyways, my overview of a clockwork orange is different than other people's, so I was wondering what you all think.

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IMO the whole point of the book is for someone to become an upright citizen or whatever it has to be freely chosen. Alex was no alloted that so when he was older he hadn't gone anywhere, but one of the people in his old crew had a girlfriend or something and was then "an upright citizen." Which relates to the hippie movement which happened around the same time. What do you all think?

On whether or not it is a classic I think yes, simply based on the quality of the work and not based on time, just because a book is old doesn't make it a classic

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DamionAlexander

I loved the book, but I also enjoyed the movie. Personally I like the ending in the American version and in the movie better than the English version of the book. He shouldn't grow out of being a sociopath.

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strangedaze

agreed. the movie was amazing. the book was amazing. viddy that.

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