What a great, disturbing book; what a relevant story laced with terrible truths ...and running silently in the background is Beethoven's music touching such a torridly vibrant soul as that which appears to be only semi-possessed by Alex adds such a bitter, bitter poignancy................

Read this because the movie was such a groundbreaker.

Not easy to read. The language and dialogue is intense and hard work with lots of slang and completely made up words peppering every sentence. That being said the stroy is amazing and it is an experience and an achievement if you can make it all the way though. Don't be the guy that only saw the movie :)

This book is a presentation of Kubrick's screenplay with 800 stills from the film. This is not the original Anthony Burgess novel, but many reviewers seem to have confused the two. This is one of the best presentations of a film in book form from those long ago days before home video. A better presentation than any Richard J. Anobile book. My copy has been well thumbed over the years, and has always intrigued visitors who've seen it on the shelf.

O my droogs and brothers, the other notch the devochka and your humble servant were down at the kino to viddy, what else, A Clockwork Orange, and we had just got to the home invasion scene, Malcolm McDowell was kicking Mr. Alexander in the litser while Dim was cutting holes in Mrs. Alexander's dress to get a better look at her groodies, all to the joyous accompaniment of Singin' in the Rain, when suddenly I had what they call an epiphany: clear as if I'd been in his gulliver listening to his innermost thoughts in glorious stereo, I knew why Donald Trump always looks so happy.

I wonder, does he like Beethoven?

This is a fascinating and great edition of the screenplay by Kubrick. What makes it great is basically the book is fully illustrated with stills from the film. I am not sure if this is still in print, but a must-have for the Kubrick fan. In a way it's like having the whole film in a book format.

Ugh. I found this to be a bit of a chore really. As a fan of the movie I was appalled at how dry and repetitive the plot seemed without the beforeseen sadistic imagery.
A line of text saying: 'Beethoven's 9th plays in the background' is hardly substitute for the real thing.
As a result of these shortcomings the characters themselves appear two-dimensional and the plot confusing.
I guess the original novel is the true work of art here-I shouldn't be so judgemental until I've read it.

Something different from my normal reads. The book is basically the movie, showing the whole movie in frames with dialogue in between. A nice item to have, as I read the book and saw the movie before. Not to read if you haven't read or seen the movie, since I think you won't understand a thing then.

I'm Russian and read this book in the Russian version. But even for me to read some of the phrases was difficult and unusual, although they were clearer to me than for you. In general, this book is a kind of anti-utopia, throughout the book, bursting with a sense of hatred for the terrible injustice

Excellent companion book for admirers of Kubrick's film - one of the pivotal achievements of 1970s cinema. Frame by frame study, broken up into a 'reel 1 to reel 16' format with Kubrick's screenplay (adapted from the book by Anthony Burgess) accompanying each frame.
Only issue I had with the book is the tight binding; mind you my copy is still in mint condition after 45+ years but you do have to take care if you want the pages to stay intact.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and adapted for The BBC

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This is the third time when I meet with A Clockwork Orange, Alex and his drugs.

-tAnd what a fabulous narrative this is!!
-tViddy?

The vocabulary is sensational and responsible in large part for the tremendous success and impact of this chef d’oeuvre.
One of my absolute favorites!

“Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. In addition to being a novelist, Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English.”

Alex and his “droogs” form a small band of fellas that get involved in petty crime, until they get “upscale” and in trouble...
The protagonist wants to have his position as alpha male confirmed and comes to blows with Dim, “who is really dim”...

They frequent a “milk bar” called Korova- which is Russian for cow- and which serves milk with drugs- moloko plus.
The band gets involved in fights and Alex is reprimanded by the Post-Corrective Advisor called Deltoid.

Some might say that the bad karma and the conflict with his droogs seal the fate of Alex, who ends up in jail.
There are some important moral, religious issues that are at the center of this marvelous, wondrous work:

-tGod would rather have freedom of choice?
-tOr would he prefer that you are good and without choice?

As they attack a “devotchka” or mature woman, they get in trouble and when the police arrive, it is Alex that gets caught.
The process of rehabilitation is flawed and it is again a major theme of the book, with evident reference to real life policy flaws.

There are too many inmates and the way to solve this is stigmatized in a clockwork Orange, wherein the “Minister of the Inferior” has the wrong solution.
The proposition is to use a method that is based on Pavlovian and behaviorist techniques and would have Alex loath violence.

The point is that the government, politicians end up torturing the prisoner(s) and trying to eliminate his impulses by malefic means.
There is a powerful image from the film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, which has Malcolm McDowell with his eyes wide opened.

But the eyes are forced to be open.
The prisoner is conditioned to feel sick whenever there is violence.

In a Pavlovian reflex, Alex is also sick whenever Beethoven is played.
One might wonder if the side effects are worth the re-education.

Then there is the small matter of the droogs becoming police officers.
And beating up poor Alex.

The question is:

-tIn a rebarbative state, are the police there to protect you?
-tOr are they just a means to torture and repress opposition

Look at china and the Big Brother policies they are introducing.
Or Putin’s Russia…

You can find the vocabulary here:

-thttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...

Ristampa della sceneggiatura di A Clockwork Orange redatta da Kubrick stesso e corredata dalle immagini del film in b/n, fotogramma per fotogramma, con le battute riportate di ogni personaggio (ovviamente in inglese). Era stata edita originariamente da Ballantine Books nel 1972. Questa nuova edizione purtroppo presenta alcuni errori di stampa, come fotogrammi erroneamente ripetuti e battute fuori posto.

A Clockwork Orange is a very unique boook. it will never get out of your mind. There is never a boring part of the book. The movie is great to watch too. The story is different from a usual book. It is distrubing but it has a lot of internal and external confilcts. An English Young Man and his fellow Droobies, go out on a violent night race consisting of burgularly, brecking and entering and rape. i would not recomend this book to anyone that is under 16 years old.

This book is by far my favorite book so far.
the reading for this book is pretty complicated with the English accent. Along with the accent the stories plot is hard to fallow, but if you undersatand it you will love to read it. the storie jumps around a little bit also. over all i think that the book is a little bit complacted to read. People who love a simple funny ending will love to read this. i totally agree with the nobel prize for this book it was great.