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A Clockwork Orange (Book)
CookedHaggis:
--- Quote from: Dirk Hopeless on 14 Jul 2007, 10:10 ---Naked Lunch is a pretty fun book, but it will also make your brain melt from time to time.
There is a really great gay sex snuff rape scene though.
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I made the mistake of reading this at work. Someone looked over my shoulder just as I was reading that scene. It was very hard to convince them that I wasn't reading some kind of freaky porno book. Which is hard, given how Naked Lunch is very freaky, often pornographic and, indeed, a book. The appendix describing the effects of a variety of drugs is absolutely fascinating too.
iliketodraw:
Has anyone read Do androids dream of electric sheep? Apparently it's great but my library decided not to stock good books a while back...
Orbert:
I saw the movie first, then read the book. The book does go deeper, but I guess I prefer the conciseness of the movie. Also, I'm familiar with the whole Chapter 21 mess, but like Yayniall, I still prefer the movie ending. If I had read the book first, I might not have bothered with the movie. How's that for a turnabout?
--- Quote from: iliketodraw on 15 Jul 2007, 13:50 ---Has anyone read Do androids dream of electric sheep? Apparently it's great but my library decided not to stock good books a while back...
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I've wanted to read that for a while, but have never run across it. Blade Runner was very interesting (also, be sure to check out the Director's Cut or Special Edition or whatever, with the different ending), and I'd love to read the source material.
Joseph:
A Clockwork Orange is a great book, well worth reading. Certainly better than the movie, in my opinion anyhow.
Naked Lunch is incredible, but nothing like A Clockwork Orange. Not really anyhow. Naked Lunch will make your brain shrivel up and die. In a good way. Also, if you want to understand it, you'll need to read a couple of William S. Burroughs earlier books. Plus be insane.
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? seems like a much more similar book. It is really amazing, easily my favourite science-fiction novel other than Dune. Blade Runner is also an incredible movie based on it, though it is deliberately different from the book.
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. is kind of similar as well, but far more graphic, far more violent, and not set in the future. I also happen to think it's better, but that's entirely subjective.
I'll see what else I can think of a bit later.
MusicScribbles:
First, Naked Lunch, to me, seems pretty different in literary writing styles, if that's what you're looking for. Burroughs has this jigsaw story structuring that annoys some people tremendously. I like it, personally. I think Naked Lunch is an amazing book, but if you were to open the book to a random page, quite often you are opening the book to some sort of highly detailed rape scene of sorts. That is how it differs from Clockwork the most. It's a lot harsher.
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, the book used for the movie Blade Runner is an awesome read. It is different from the movie in a multitude of ways. The biggest difference being that it has more symbolism and themes going for it than the movie. Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite authors because his books mess with the human condition, instead of expressing opinions, he just changes ideas in his own world. I recommend it. I also recommend Naked Lunch if you're up for it. Another good Dick book is A Scanner Darkly, which just had a movie made after it.
On Clockwork Orange, the reason why the movie left out the last chapter of the book is because it was made in America. Why is this different? The American publisher forced Burgess to keep the last chapter out of the American version of the book when it was originally printed here. It would be a different story now because they added the chapter in current editions of the book, but that's the reason why.
It's hard to watch a movie you've read the book for without expectations, and vice-versa, but they are both different mediums, so they'll be different. Watch a movie like a movie. Read a book like a book. Although movies are much more often criticized for the lack of things that were present in the book.
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