A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess 1962

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
dystopian philosophical literary fiction trauma

Our Take

Ultra-violence rendered in invented language that makes you complicit in the beauty of brutality. Burgess forces the question: is a man who chooses evil more human than one forced to be good? The answer is the moral collapse, and you will not feel clean after reading it.

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