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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Start date: April 1, 2014

Finish date: April 30, 2014

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Discussion leader: Bob

Why we're reading this: Revisit the Shelf Group Read, April 2014

Previous Group Reads:
- Contemporary Classic, May 2012
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Previous Group Reads:
- Contemporary Classic, May 2012

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What Members Thought

Nov 09, 2019 RJ - Slayer of Trolls rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-read, guardian-1000-read

"What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"

The story of a violent young delinquent and his subsequent rehabilitation is wound tightly through with a juxtaposition of two diametrically-opposed concepts, as the title suggests: the man-made mechanical merged with the heaven-made organic. Is the suppression of individuality justified by the betterment of society? And does ...more

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Aug 11, 2007 Suvi rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, 1940-1969, _great-britain, sci-fi, _david-bowies-favorites, _big-jubilee-read

Nice playing with words (which puts you a little closer to the characters) and somewhat interesting story but I didn't really fall in love with it as most have. There's nothing much to say really. I just didn't get the charm of Alex, for example. Period. ...more

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