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A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess
Narrated by: Tom Hollander
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In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future, as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until Alex is captured by the judicial arm of the state. He then becomes their prized guinea pig in a scientific program to completely "redeem" him for society.

If we had the power of absolute criminal reform, what, the novel asks, would this mean for our ideals of freedom and society? This edition reinstates the final chapter missing from Kubrick's film, in which Alex is on the verge of starting a family as he reflects on - and completely rejects - his adolescent nastiness. It also includes Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked".

©1962 The Estate of Anthony Burgess (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Crime
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This was intoxicating to listen to. The narration was pitch perfected and made the Nadsat dialogue of the text an easy and understandable listen which is no easy feat as for a first timer to this book it can be a little jarring but this was so well done and the best reading of the novel I have heard to date. Well worth your time of your humble narrator oh my brothers and sisters!

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Great story brought to vivid life by spiky first person narration reminiscent of Kubrick's character for those who loved the film version.
A unique story way ahead of it's time and the droogy slang works particularly well in an audio book version.

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Anthony Burgess has written a masterpiece, despite he not considering it his magnum opus, I surely do. His language is a as sweet as the milky chai we in this book, and hit wit is as razor sharp has Alex’s old Britva.
A wonderful story about violence and youth, or maybe violence IN youth.

Tom Hollander was fantastic and I do hope he does more work for Audible. The way Tom could travel from cockney hard edged accents to eloquent snobby upper class accents was absolutely hilarious.
This is by far one of my all time favorite books and I couldn’t have asked for a better Humble Narrator.
Amen. And all that Cal.

Horrorshow Classic O my Brothers.

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Excellent, you will love or hate it, I love it! Great narrator as well.

brilliant

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The book is so well spoken, I was so engaged with it. I really recommend it.

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