There's not much left to blog about a Clockwork orange...

...but I eventually just typed "a clockwork orange anthony burgess" on google and looked for some articles to spark some ideas. After a while I found this article that goes into a bit of plot but summarizes the themes that are emphasized by the book, followed by the author's opinions and themes that are emphasized by the movie. The author of the book does nothing but praise how well the movie stayed loyal to the novel.

"Stanley Kubrick's film version of 'A Clockwork Orange' is one of the greatest translations of a book to the cinema screen."

Although It's taking me longer than I had initially expected to finish the novel, reading this article makes me want to just do it; however, it doesn't give me the great motivation needed to actually go through and finish the book promptly.

After some more thought about this post I went back to google and found a book review website that only has such high praise for the novel. I don't understand what is so great about a clockwork orange. Sure it's one of the classical satirical novels that one should read, but I'm just not that into it. Perhaps is the language Burgess created. Nadsat. Everyone gives Burgess an almost genius title for writing a book written with a new teenage slang in a futuristic dystopian society, but honestly, I think I could have made up a few words and slapped them in a book. I'm not saying that the way Burgess forced the reader to actually follow along with his language by context clues should not be acknowledged, but to me it seems that some people seem to like the fact that he just invented his own language (which i'm sure a lot of you did when you were younger). For me, it's not that he made his own language, with fused teenage slang and Russian, but the way he used it. It's obvious that of the central points of the novel is to bash on communism, and by using a new language combined with Russian, it just adds to the satirical genius.

Overall I'm enjoying the novel in a slow process. HOPEFULLY I can finish it up this week.