Just Read A Clockwork Orange
 

It was okay, and the goverment is out there to reform you. They will get you, no matter how much you refuse.

I really liked it, but it's been a while since I read it.

The movie is one of the best book-to-movie adaptations, if you don't care about the 21st chapter not being there, which I'm fine with because I liked the way the book ended without it.

I actually thought it better without the last chapter. But with it, I clearly see his dark views on politics. In the first part, I don't know if this is true, but I thought he was sort of anti-intellectual.

Anthony Burgess is one of my favorite writers.

One of those books I couldn't put down at night.

I do not like this book. I cannot get past the droog-speak used throughout the damn thing. I do not understand it and I find it boring because of it. I have tried to read it three times, once when I was 15, and i got about 40 pages in and could care less, so i stopped. then, I read it, or tried to, again when I was 19 and i was even more infuriated by how much it sucked. I tried reading it again about age 28 and I managed to get about 80 pages in, until I could no longer force myself to read such inane drivel. I just really really hate it.

The movie I am ambivalent about. I find the second half of the movie veruy interesting and engrossing while the first half bores me to tears. my girlfriend sees it the opposite way. She dislikes the second half and enjoys the first half.

I find it to be, book more so than the movie, severely overrated.

just one man's opinion though.

Yeah, the droog-talk did get on my nerves, but after i got over it, and started to decode each one, it flowed easily.

I think my personal issue with the droog-speak is that english is my second language, spanish being first, and the droog stuff is completely foreign to me, they may as welll be speaking german throughout the book, you know?
I just cannot decipher it I guess.

Yeah, Spanish is my first language, and English being my second, so it is hard to get it. I mean I am always learning new English words, that is why I like literature, because so many words to learn.

the droog-speak has nothing to do with being cmofortable with english. the words are fromt he russian language, so english being your second language isn't an excuse for not being able to understand it.

i will agree though, it's hard to catch on to

okay????????????

you missed the whole fun w/ the russian slang. you just skipped over it, didn't you??

One of my friends lent me her copy of the book. I started reading it, and I thought it was okay. The droog-speak was a bit more annoying and confusing than fun. I ended up getting caught up in other school work so I had to put it down and I gave it back to her when I was only about 20 or 30 pages in.

:eek:

and i thought you were smart.

what they don't have dictionaries in american editions? mine had a glossary at the end. 2 chapters into the book i was quite fluent.

one of the easiest and quickest reads ever.

i liked the movie better. i like how at the end of the movie, you don't know whether alex is REALLY better or not, though it seems pretty obvious he's not... in the book, it's like "Yeah, i got married n shit."

exactly

Once I have time to read it, I'll probably get through it pretty easily. I just had too much shit to do when I tried reading. I was going too fast, I wasn't paying enough attention, and I had to concentrate on drowning out my obnoxious bus mates while trying to read. I also doing some school reading, preparing for a speech tournament, and studying for my AP European History Exam (I got a 4, by the way).

I'll probably borrow the book again this year.

even worse!!!
That is an even BETTER excuse for not understanding it!

BORING BOOK!

may as well go read boring ass catcher in the rye again!

How dare you disrespect Catcher in the Rye!

Anyway, are we all in agreement that the last chapter should have been left out?

gack-- you're gonna get old before your time!

please tell me at least you're having fun this summer??