A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I have to pass on a rating of this for now. Though the book was well written, the content - from the violence, robbery and rape done by the juvenile criminals, to the brainwashing done by the state in retribution, this was a very uncomfortable read. I found the Introduction to be one a very interesting part of the book. In it, Burgess explains that he doesn't care for the book, especially the American version which Stanley Kubrick turned into a famous film. That was an incomplete an incomplete version, only being 20 chapters. He felt the symbolism of 21 was important, being the accepted age of adult responsibility. (Also reading this in 2021 seems significant to me.) It is in this last chapter that Alex, having been a terrible person as a teen, then "rehabilitated" by the government while in prison, then let out where both former friends and victims turn against him, to finally be deprogrammed and given the power of choice.
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