A Clockwork Orange
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SqueakyChu
of Rockville, Maryland USA on 7/20/2020
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
SqueakyChu of Rockville, Maryland USA on 7/20/2020 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
This is one of 26 books which arrived in a Nordstrom bag in July, 2020, as an anonymous donation to the Little Free Library of Twinbrook ((#7720). Thank you so much!
I read another copy of this book in 2011. This is what i wrote after i read it...
I enjoyed this book very much. Be forewarned, though, that this book contains the kind of graphic violence that may be off-putting to sensitive readers. Sometimes, when I read fiction containing violence, I say to myself that this is just a story and try to read the narrative without making a value judgment. My daughter did not like this book, nor did she want to finish reading it. I had seen Stanley Kubrick’s movie “A Clockwork Orange”, many, many years ago, but I honestly could not remember anything about the story itself. Now I’d like to see the film again.
Narrated by the ultimate bad boy Alex, a 15-year-old hoodlum in England, the story follows his adventures with fellow “droogs” and what becomes of him after he is caught by the “millicents”. If you don’t understand some of these words, this is bit what the book is like. It is filled with Alex’s “nadsat” vocabulary which becomes easily understandable after following it throughout the book. At times, the newly-coined words seem amusing. In fact, the book is chock full of a very dark humor. I’m not sure how much of this book was written to be tongue-in-cheek or how much to be satire, but I found the story very entertaining and took what was written at litso (face) value. I find it interesting that this book has become a classic. It certainly is unique.
I enjoyed this book very much. Be forewarned, though, that this book contains the kind of graphic violence that may be off-putting to sensitive readers. Sometimes, when I read fiction containing violence, I say to myself that this is just a story and try to read the narrative without making a value judgment. My daughter did not like this book, nor did she want to finish reading it. I had seen Stanley Kubrick’s movie “A Clockwork Orange”, many, many years ago, but I honestly could not remember anything about the story itself. Now I’d like to see the film again.
Narrated by the ultimate bad boy Alex, a 15-year-old hoodlum in England, the story follows his adventures with fellow “droogs” and what becomes of him after he is caught by the “millicents”. If you don’t understand some of these words, this is bit what the book is like. It is filled with Alex’s “nadsat” vocabulary which becomes easily understandable after following it throughout the book. At times, the newly-coined words seem amusing. In fact, the book is chock full of a very dark humor. I’m not sure how much of this book was written to be tongue-in-cheek or how much to be satire, but I found the story very entertaining and took what was written at litso (face) value. I find it interesting that this book has become a classic. It certainly is unique.
Journal Entry 3 by SqueakyChu at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA on Friday, April 16, 2021
SqueakyChu at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA on Friday, April 16, 2021
Released 3 yrs ago (4/16/2021 UTC) at LFL - Vandegrift Ave (5811) (#7720) in Rockville, Maryland USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I'm releasing this boookfor...
*** The 2021 April Showers/May Flowers release challenge hosted by GoryDetails. The title of this book contains the word ORANGE.
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Hello and welcome to BookCrossing ... where we make the whole world a library!
Now that you've "caught" this book, it is yours to do with as you like. Read it, keep it, or give it away. It's your choice!
I'd love if you'd enter a note here on BookCrossing about this book -- where you found it, how you like it, and/or where you release it. If you join BookCrossing (free and fun), kindly list me, SqueakyChu. or any other journaler on this thread as your referring person. Thank you so much.
Enjoy the book!
*** The 2021 April Showers/May Flowers release challenge hosted by GoryDetails. The title of this book contains the word ORANGE.
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Hello and welcome to BookCrossing ... where we make the whole world a library!
Now that you've "caught" this book, it is yours to do with as you like. Read it, keep it, or give it away. It's your choice!
I'd love if you'd enter a note here on BookCrossing about this book -- where you found it, how you like it, and/or where you release it. If you join BookCrossing (free and fun), kindly list me, SqueakyChu. or any other journaler on this thread as your referring person. Thank you so much.
Enjoy the book!
