A review by littlebookmunchkin
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

5.0

This was a really interesing book. It’s so fascinating to see how the author created a new ‚language‘ that seemed to fit and made sense. At first it is kind of hard to get into it but after a few chapters it is actually quite fun te experience. Especially if you don’t try to look up all the words but thry to pry their meaning from context. This story contains some violent scenes which, in my opinion, do loose some of their shock value because of the made up lingo. It is definitely not a book for people who just want lovey-dovey romance. The question that the book asks does hit hard but would even harder if it had more pages to explore it and dive deeper into the different states of our protagonist.
I personally find it hard to decide whether or not I think the chapter twenty one necessary or not. The book would end on a very very gloomy note without it, but with it the story feels a bit to happy and sudden to really hit home.