Comments on: Review: ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess

By: oldenglishrose

oldenglishrose — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:09:10 +0000

Thank you for leaving me such a thoughtful comment. It’s sad that graphic violence has become so commonplace in film, literature and the news and you’re right, perhaps I would have been more shocked by it had I read it when it was first published. Violence both in and out of literature is of course terrible, but I did appreciate the questions that this book raised about whether anything can ever be done about that.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:58:37 +0000

Hello. I have just come across your blog and am making my way through your archives and am enjoying your reviews. Just a comment re the violence in A Clockwork Orange…the book was originally published in the early 60s I believe and the violence would have seemed very graphic for that time. I never read the book, but did go to see the film version in 1971 and to this date it is the only film I ever walked out of! I happened to catch it on TV recently and watched a bit of it and was amazed by how mild it all seemed compared to what happens both in movies and books these days. What is frightening to me is that then the reality of someone choosing to exercise their will in such vile ways seemed rare and now they seem all too common. (I am writing this the day after a gunman shot and killed 5 people and wounded an Arizona congresswoman!) The joy of free will is we can choose to do good and I choose to do that. May you be blessed with happy reading trails.

By: oldenglishrose

oldenglishrose — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:53:20 +0000

Thank you so much for the compliment. I try to write honest reviews, so I hope you will stay around to read them.

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‘Crash’ by J. G. Ballard « A Life of Books and Tea — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:29:51 +0000

[...] book and not an enjoyable read at all. This was what I was expecting, but then I started reading A Clockwork Orange with the same preconceptions but was brought round by the impressive writing and message. Crash [...]