Great first adult read! I read it as a teenager on my own, then later as a high school senior. All the iconic books of that period seemed to have an anti establishment bent, and this one was maybe the best. I know Burgess didn't love Kubrick's take, but I did.

siggy47

First "adult" book you read voluntarily?

k00b

A Clockwork Orange - I dunno why, but I screenprinted the cover afterwards. Pretty iconic though.

Loved the invented language, with unexpected glossary at the back, and how it somehow empathizing with Alex and his world & love of Beethoven.

The ultraviolent film of Alex and his droogs, directed by Kubrick, really didn't go down well with author Burgess.

I saw it produced on stage and was the only one in a theater of hundreds who stood and clapped - the players appreciated it as if only one stands it officially counts as a standing ovation.