Dark AND disturbing

I was way too biased to enjoy this book. Hated it. Hated everyone in it. Props to Stanley Kubrick for making the point he did, but all I could think while reading it was "Just shoot him already".

I've wondered for a while if Stanley Kubrick should actually have been a graphic novelist. His obsessive control of his sets, actors, and pieces is far more suited to the auteur basis of graphic novels. If such books were more accepted as 'legitimate' by aesthetes, maybe he would have been. This is about as close to that as anything, and I actually prefer consuming this book to watching the movie. This thing is pretty cool.

This book is in a solid tie with Sylia Plath's The Bell Jar for my favorite book.

I am a HUGE fan of the movie, too biased to read up to the end.

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Yeah..........

I read this entire book one day in high school because I was borrowing it from the guy I was dating, and then we broke up. I read it all at once so that the next day when I saw him, I could give him the book back. I found myself scrunching my eyebrows together during this read and rolling my eyes. There definitely were good lines in here and it is written well, but I could not really care for the storyline at all.
After reading other reviews, I was shocked to see how so many people rave about it. I mean even the New York Times called this an "excellent" read. I don't know about that personally, but I would love to hear your opinions on this one.

Some would argue this version is better...the original author would likely have hated that.

I was intrigued by the side-language that he created

Much as I love the film (and the original book), this "screenplay" is pretty disappointing.

I know Kubrick was trying to do something different than a standard form screenplay by stripping away description and providing the extensive stills, but the whole thing seems really misguided. If someone's reading the screenplay they're doing so to learn the nuts and bolts of the film--if they want the images they can see the film itself.

I'd love to read the real screenplay, but this is just sort of a weird and unnecessary release.

This work was considered harmful and disturbing. but in reality is a masterpiece.

This book was amazing. At the start it was hard to grow accustomed to the vernacular, but as the story went on it became much easier.

My friend Louis and I created a video about A Clockwork Orange. Check out the link below for a synopsis, analysis, and to see how the book and movie differs.

https://youtu.be/fvuqDgjX1dM?list=PL0...