Wow, it's been a long time since I finished a book. I despised this book when I started it. The narrator is a hateful thug, and all the invented words made it almost impossible for me to follow the plot. As I stuck with it, however, the story began to grow on me, although the narrator, Alex, did not.
By the end of the novel, I appreciated Anthony Burgess' use of language because it created a palpably real feeling dystopia for his characters and story to inhabit. In the end, A Clockwork Orange is just a fictional political screed, but it is a well written one.
