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A review by melfurious
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2.0
Potentially unpopular opinion.... I didn't like it.
The slang, whilst I commend the author for and understand the creativity behind it, got tiresome and annoying by the end, and to me made Alex seem very uneducated and dim-witted. Perhaps that was the point? If it was, it went over my head.
The story didn't resolve well for me. I can understand why the last chapter wasn't included in some versions. How Alex explains his actions reminded me of how Tarantino desensitises violence in his movies. Zero emotion. Which means it all fell flat for me, and when the corrective action was taken on Alex, the sick feeling he got wasn't as big an impact for me as probably it was intended to be.
Sorry, Mr Burgess, it's a no from me.
The slang, whilst I commend the author for and understand the creativity behind it, got tiresome and annoying by the end, and to me made Alex seem very uneducated and dim-witted. Perhaps that was the point? If it was, it went over my head.
The story didn't resolve well for me. I can understand why the last chapter wasn't included in some versions. How Alex explains his actions reminded me of how Tarantino desensitises violence in his movies. Zero emotion. Which means it all fell flat for me, and when the corrective action was taken on Alex, the sick feeling he got wasn't as big an impact for me as probably it was intended to be.
Sorry, Mr Burgess, it's a no from me.