A+Clockwork+Orange.

This summer I read A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. The book is set in the near future when criminals take over by dark and the world is corrupt. The story is told by Alex, a 15 year old criminal, who kills and stealls by night with his three droogs, friends, Pete, Georgie and Dim. Alex speaks in an ivented slang called nadsat talk. The story begins at night with the four boys going around and stealing from houses and stores. By day Alex lives in a flat with his mom and dad, or pee and em in nadsat. Alex then goes out the next night with his droogs and they plan to rob a house. they go to the house and then go in and find a man and his wife. Alex and his droogs beat the man and the women and then leave. Later, they go to rob another house. Alex is the only one who enters and he finds and old lady with a lot of cats. they get in a fight and then the millicents, police, come and take Alex to jail. After two years in jail alex is sent to a new sytem that is suposted to make criminals good. The system is very contreversial, and Alex is the first patient. He is sent into a nice bedroom and is given very good food and a vaccination after every meal. Then he is taken in to a theater and is strapped down to a chair and his eyelids are tapped open. Then video's of people being killed and toutured and raped are showen on the screen. After two weeks of the videos, Alex is know unable to make desitions he can only make the good choice. Thier is a lot of controversy because, when you cant make choices you are no longer human. I thought the book was okay, not great only because of the very strange nadsat talk that the book is wrote in. I think that if you like sci-fi and you are able to understand nadsat, read it.

Reponse By Colan

That book sound intresting, but kinda odd at the same time. What I don't understand is the plot of the book. it doesn't seem like you can do much with a guy at a place who learns to be good.