A Clockwork Orange

This glossary would be really helpful for you if you read this!

A Clockwork Orange Appendix

I was afraid to read it, and I skipped the movie when I was going through the AFI Top 100 (#46) because I wouldn't want to watch what is described in the book, but it is really well written, and it deserves to be on the 1000 Books list. I have this weird liking of dystopian novels. Cautionary tale maybe? This book truly is a "philosophical inquiry into good and evil." 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Alex, the frightening narrator of this brutal and brilliant novel, is an amoral, Beethoven-loving gang leader in a near-future dystopian Britain. Whether adolescent girls or a schoolteacher returning from the library, the gang’s victims are treated with an exuberantly vicious disregard: They might as well be faceless, inhuman targets for the random acts of violence, the gratuitous venom of Alex and his thugs (sex, unsurprisingly, is reduced to its mechanical coordinates: “the old in-out-in-out”). The linguistic bravura of the book and the unbound rebellion that is described do not hide for long the philosophical inquiry into good and evil at the core of A Clockwork Orange. Though it’s often compared to 1984 and Brave New World, Anthony Burgess’s book—in part a vision, both prescient and exaggerated, of the coming trauma of youth culture—has an extra layer of surreality and menace. Burgess is more interested in invoking questions than answering them, and he puts his considerable imaginative powers to work in the service of his inquisition. The result for the reader is a vivid tour of an unforgettable future—a journey that remains both intellectually invigorating and deeply unsettling.