Clockwork Orange, Film vs Book

[xwanderlust89x]

So

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[mrbungle]

The movie is pretty faithful to the book, except that it uses a bleaker version that omits the final chapter (which was the only one available in the US for a while).

[flightofscarlet]

The film actually follows the book pretty closely.

I don't think you will be as traumatized by reading it as seeing it though.

One thing I remember being enjoyable about the book is the 'made up' vocabulary.

I would rec'd reading it.
But then again I am a sucker for reading about dystopian futures ;)

[xwanderlust89x]

Ahh, so am I. I hadn't noticed it was future dystopian or I would have gotten it already. Do you know of others that have their own vocabulary? Not sure why but that style totally entrances me when put in the dystopic setting.

[hellaine]

The movie is pretty much exactly the book. Book has a made-up jargon that the teenagers think/speak in and it was alittle jarring for me to understand at first but I got the hang of it, loved it and it works pefectly IMO.

[skazat]

The book sincerely doesn't suck, it's quite amazing. A wonderful coming of age novella.

[luna_puella]

I've never seen the film, but the book is very good.