Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange book review by James Krendel-Clark Numerical rating: 10/10 (classic) First off, oh my brothers, the book is better than the film. It's not really a question of the redemptive ending but of the writing. There is about four times as much wordplay in it as in Kubrick's rendition, and it does a great deal to advance the plot (which is immaculate, following, like, all of the Aristotelian symmetries and whatnot). This is a book that you can cream into like so much freshly whipped butter. As Burgess says, the slang muffled the violence, rendering the "red red kroovy" (gushing blood) into a kind of groovy jargon that eats away at the morality of the reader since it doesn't come across as pornographic or ruthless. Few books have I enjoyed so much as this one. I ordered it on a whim, and when it arrived at my doorstep, I felt confused, like someone else had ordered it for me, but I checked, and no, I ordered it for myself, apparently along with some books...