The Bowie Book Club discussion

Please post here any general comments you'd like to make about our June 2016 reading, A Clockwork Orange, or share some useful resources you've come across about the book.

PLEASE, KEEP IN MIND: do not give any spoilers! The discussion about particular segments of the story was divided, so the members of the group can make comments as they move further on the reading, without the risk of encountering spoilers in the middle of the conversations.

This has some interesting info on the film (and to a lesser extent the book)...


http://www.collativelearning.com/ACO%...

I think, given the Bowie connections, we have to mention the film's wonderful soundtrack...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clock...

Bowie and Mick Ronson saw A Clockwork Orange soon after it opened in London in mid-January 1972, and while Bowie already had written “Suffragette City,” Stanley Kubrick’s film influenced the final track, which was completed in early February, as well as the imagery of the Ziggy concept. Bowie would open most of his “Ziggy Stardust” shows with the film’s Moog rendition of Beethoven’s 9th, while the droog-wear of Malcolm McDowell and friends inspired the Spiders From Mars’ stage outfits—what Bowie called in 1993 a “terrorist we-are-ready-for-action look.”

More here...
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/...

An study guide by Sparknotes http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/clockwo...

Quite insightful.