A Clockwork Orange

Here are a few places on the net you might find helpful as you get into reading this Anthony Burgess classic.

-Of course, it's never a bad idea to be in touch with the basics on sites like Wikipedia and Sparknotes, which offers a nice contextual consideration of the book's larger forces, though your knowledge needs to move well beyond these limited sites.

-As Alex and his droogs(friends) navigate the futuristic, repressive, and totalitarian state, they communicate through a combination of English and Nadsat, the latter a fictional creation for the book. There are many glossaries of Nadsat on the web, but this one is probably the best.

-For anyone interested, here's the official Anthony Burgess site.

-Here's a good interview with Stanley Kubrick, the film's director, on A Clockwork Orange. And here are some excerpts from Anthony Burgess' autobiography on the novel and its translation to film.

Happ reading! In as much as anyone can feel happy reading this book, that is.