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A Clockwork Orange (Book)
Cartilage Head:
Man I totally love both. I just hate hate hate hate HATE that they fucked with the ending of the book for the movie. It ruins the entire message of the novel.
chocolate_octopus:
Anthony Burgess is a brilliant writer. I tend to find his books quite difficult to cope with but I definitely preferred the book to the film. Nadsat is a great system of slang although I did find it irritating that it took me four chapters to work out what they were on about despite the fact I study Russian at school.
I'd recommend other books by Anthony Burgess as he's a great writer no matter what he's writing about. For differentness, Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a good read. It's bizarre but really interestingly so.
SeanBateman:
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.
Yayniall:
I shall commit the cardinal sin of the intellectual and say that the film is better.
The book's ending is weaksauce. Oh, he was only acting like that because he was a teenager, oh okay then, boys will be boys. Can't stand it.
I read the book first too and I do agree that the use of the slang is better used in it but that ending, argh!
Jooooosh:
Make sure you get the book with all 21 chapters, and not the edited one with 20.
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