Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

This was all right. I have to admit that I liked the movie better (a bit darker). Almost incomprehensible with the made-up slang. The most interesting part was the intro where he rips into his publisher for removing the last chapter in the american publications. Said that you have to allow characters to change to be a novelist. I do agree with that somewhat, but the last chapter was awful. Here was a violent person, probably as a result of his environment. He did some pretty horrible stuff (we're not just talking about knocking down mailboxes here), and I somehow don't think that just because he's 18 that he's now going to be a responsible member of society. There are certain things that you just can't get over - it sets the whole clockwork orange world in an even more surrealistic setting. Definitely not an anti-utopian classic like 1984. About clockwork orange - I agree that people should have free choice, but most people don't use it. It's very weak philosophically to think that the only way to demonstrate breaking away from society is through violence.