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Question #1:

Research topics that can relate to A Clockwork Orange?

I have a research paper that only has to be roughly 10 pages long, and like an idiot I chose "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess.

Well, the rough draft is due tomorrow, and I cannot think of a topic...
any ideas?


The objective is something you can research, and relate back to the book.

Question #2:

A Clockworks Orange?dhtjherb?

i need help on the history of the author anthony burgess. i need to know a little history of him. how he felt about writing this book.and all the good stuff. please help?

Question #3:

What order should I read these books in?

The books are as following:
George Orwell - 1984

Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Beach

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

best first of course, my complete strangers :)

Question #4:

What is the genre of Anthony Burgess's A clockwork Orange?

For example, adventure, horror, tragedy. drama, coming-of-age...etc.

Question #5:

out of the list of these books, which ones did u like the best? and why?

and plz give a small summary if u don't mind-im trying to decide which one id like:::btw just ignore the 3 lists, just think of it as one; i did the 3 lists for my own knowledge. also im considering Jamica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier and East of Eden by John Steinbeck(have u read either of these? if so did u like it/them?)

list 1::
-David Copperfield-charles dickens
-the brothers karamozov-fyodor dostoevsky
-Fountainhead-ayn rand
-Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
-War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
-Trinity-Leon Uris
-Mila 18-Leon Uris

List 2:::
-In Cold Blood-Truman Capote
-Lords of Discipline-Pat Conroy
-Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe
-Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe
-A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
-The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier
-Snow Falling on Cedars-David Gunderson
-Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy
-Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy
-Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
-Catch-22-Joseph Heller
-For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway
-Portrait of a Lady-James Henry
-Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein
-Dune-Frank Herbert
-The World According to Garp-John Irving
-How Green Was My Valley-Richard Llewellyn
-One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Of Human Bondage-W. Sommerset Maughm
-We were the Mulvaneys-Joyce Carol Oates
-Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak
-We the living-Ayn Rand
-East of Eden-John Steinbeck
-Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe

List 3:::
-A Death in the Family-James Agee
-Foundation-Isaac Asimov
-Go Tell it on the Mountain-James Baldwin
-To Good Earth-Pearl Buck
-Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
-Jamaica Inn-Daphne Du Maurier
-Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel
-Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
-Demain-Herman Hess
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Turn of the Screw-James Henry
-A Splendid Thousand Suns-Khaled Hosseini
-Pigs in Heaven-Barbara Kingsolver
-Razor's Edge-W.Sommerset Maughm
-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers
-Sula-Toni Morrison
-Tar Baby-Toni Morrison
-The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
-The Chosen-Chaim Potok
-Hunger of Memory-Richard Rodriguez
-The Winthrop Woman-Anya Seton
-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
-Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan
-Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain
-Rabbit,Run-John Updike
-Slaughterhouse-Kurt Vonnegut
-Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton

Question #6:

Which of the following books would you recommend?

Maybe a short blurb about the book would be helpful too, if possible :) thank you in advance!


Austen, Jane- Emma

Bronte, Charlotte- Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily- Wuthering Heights

Butler, Samuel- The Way of All Flesh

Burgess, Anthony- A Clockwork Orange

Collins, Wilkie- The Moonstone

Conrad, Joseph- Lord Jim

Dickens, Charles- Bleak House, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities

Elliott, George- Middlemarch, Silas Marner

Fielding, Henry- Tom Jones

Forster, E.M.- A Passage to India, Howard’s End

Hardy, Thomas- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Joyce, James- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Daisy Miller

Kipling, Rudyard – Kim

Larkin, Phillip – A Girl in Winter

Lawrence, D.H.- Sons and Lovers

Lowry, Malcolm- Under the Volcano

Moore, Alan/Gibbons, Dave – Watchmen (a graphic novel)

Orwell, George- 1984

Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea

Stoker, Bram - Dracula

Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity fair

Woolf, Virginia- A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse

Question #7:

How many of these books have you read?

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Howards End by E. M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
This is a list of banned books. The list was prepared by the American Library Association as part of banned book week.
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Question #8:

What is/are your favorite quote(s)?

I'm a bit a of a quote freak... I think words can the highest form of art, and quotes kinda hit the spot for me in said regard... not only the elegant, poignant, and deeply meaningful shit, but what ever makes me FEEL when I hear it. If you have any that incite such a response from you, please share them ^_^ below are a few of my favorites

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, will we not revenge?" - Shakespeare

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who, in time of great moral dilemma, retained their neutrality." - Former U.S. President (me thinks)

"My heart is Broke, but I have some Glue, Help me Inhale, Mend it with You..." - Cobain

"The single greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Him with their lips yet deny Him with their lifestyle. This is what an unbelieving world... finds simply unbelievable." - ?

".... and then I get that feeling; that dread, and I panic. I begin to run.... and then... then I find a balloon, hidden in my suitcase... so there I am, with a bag of junk in one hand, and money for my next fix in the other... and I feel... a total... utter... peace..." - Things We Lost In the Fire

"...they deny the sky, but refuse to look up." - ?

"Life is, of course, terrible." - Anthony Burgess

"I'm taking the cure, so I can have quiet whenever I want..." - Elliot Smith

"The sleep of reason breeds monsters." - Goya

"Victorious warriors win first, and then go to War, the defeated go to War, and then seek to win." - An Asian Guy

"One's belief is less easily shaken than one's knowledge." Adolf Hitler

Question #9:

Which of these books should I read?

I have to read one of these for my English 4 AP class.
I'm a 17 year old guy.


A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
Atonement - Ian McEwan
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Question #10:

Which book should I start reading next?

Given the choices of:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Question #11:

Can someone proofread my paragraph??????

“Eye of the Tiger”
Taylor Anthony
2nd period
9/9/09



Music can be interpreted differently by many people. Everybody hears it differently. It speaks to them in a way nobody can fathom. To many people “Eye of the Tiger is very inspirational to them.
“Eye of the tiger” by Survivor was written for Rocky III the movie. It talks about never giving up and having enough strength to go on and exceed in what you are doing. The song gives you energy to do what you want to do. I think it’s basically saying never give up on your dreams, even if you think that it's impossible. Sometimes you may change your mind about what you want to do in life, but that's only because you think what you want is out of reach. But this song is telling you that if you set your mind to something (eye of the tiger) and don't give up, you can make it.
The song is played from parents just listening to oldies to kids about to go on the fields to play. You get ready for any experiences when listening to this before a game. This song has become very popular among marathon runners, weightlifters, and just about anyone facing a challenge.
This was the theme song to Rocky III, which was the biggest movie of 1982. In the movie, Rocky Balboa is shown resting on his laurels, living the good life, doing American Express commercials and photo-ops and slacking off his training regimen. In stark contrast were scenes of the ominous Mr. T, training hard, sweating, bleeding and pouring out every last ounce of effort to become the boxing champion of the world. After the death of Rocky's trainer, played by Burgess Meredith, Rocky's friend (and former rival) Apollo Creed, played by Carl Weathers, implores Rocky to get back "The Eye of the Tiger," meaning his edge and his hunger to be the champ. The background information is very important to get the meaning of the song.
To me and to a ton of people, Eye of the Tiger will help us realize past dreams and our future dreams we wish to accomplish. The song is a “few” years old. It has to be one of the greatest hits because we kids still listen to it and so do our parents!
Everyone can benefit from this song and take something with them that will help them during a challenge in their life.

Question #12:

I need to find a song that connects with the quote from the book A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess.?

"Does god want goodness or the choice of goodness?Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
The song I am guessing should be about free will and such and i must explain how this goes along with the quote.

Question #13:

Can anybody summarize this novel "A Clockwork Orange"?

This novel is by Anthony Burgess. Thanx a million!
im dyslexic, so yeahh it can be difficult to read a book cover to cover. its liek i think i understant it, but not really.

Question #14:

does anyone know where i can find the following ebooks?

i'd prefer free, but very cheap would also do. i've looked on numerous torrent sites, esnips, 4shared, etc. and no luck.

A Coldness in the Blood - Fred Saberhagen
Confirmation- Whitley Strieber
The Hunger- Whitley Strieber
Golden Apples of The Sun & Other Stories- Ray Bradbury
Five Days In London, May 1940- John Lukacs
Passage- Connie Willis
The Vampire Papers- Michael Romkey
The Vampire Princess - Michael Romkey
Darker Angels- S.P. Somtow
Pugilist At Rest- Thom Jones
The Broken Hearts Club- Ethan Black
The Final Solution- Earle Rice
Eunoia- Christian Bok
The Frighteners- Michael Jahn
The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams- J. O'Barr & Ed Kramer
Teen Angst? Naaah- Ned Vizzini
Filth- Irvine Welsh
The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys- Chris Fuhrman
The Unswept Room- Sharon Olds
The Oxford Book Of English Stories- A.S. Byatt
Farther Reaches Of Human Nature- Abraham Maslow
Checkpoint- Nicholson Baker
The Member of The Wedding- Carson McCullers
Rear View: Stories- Peter Duval
The Truth About Celia- Kevin Brockmeier
How The Light Gets In- Maria Hyland
Black Coffee and Joni's Blue- Keith Kawasaki
Crumbtown- Joe Connelly
Well- Matthew McIntosh
A Slipping-Down Life- Anne Tyler
My Life- Anton Chekhov
Mr. Spaceman- Robert Olen Butler
Skels- Maggie Dubris
Shame- Annie Ernaux
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
American Gothic Tales- Joyce Carol Oates
Highwaymen- Jonathan Clements
Everybody Smokes In Hell- John Ridley
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh- Michael Chabon
Safe Harbor- Eugene Izzi
Bear V. Shark- Chris Bachelder
Just Pretend- J.V. Lewton
A Life Less Ordinary- John Hodge
You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers
How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers
The Boy- Naeem Murr
Immortality- Milan Kundera
Second Hand- Michael Zadoorian
The Girl In The Flammable Skirt- Aimee Bender
Hot Water Music- Charles Bukowski
Pursuit of Happiness: Left Bank- Linny Stovall
Burn Collector: Collected Stories- Al Burian
The Every Boy- Dana Adam Shapiro
Death On The Installment Plan- Louis Celine
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints- Dito Montiel
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer
The Holy Innocents (aka The Dreamers)- Gilbert Adair
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- Rachel Cohn
No One Belongs Here More Than You- Miranda July
The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs- Marcus Boon
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism- Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk
The Wanting Seed- Anthony Burgess
Against Interpretation And Other Essays- Susan Sontag
Why Art Cannot Be Taught- James Elkins
Genius And Heroin - Michael Largo
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - John David California
Ritual - Mo Hayder
Skin - Mo Hayder
i tried books on board, but every book i looked up was well over $20, i might as well buy a hard copy! i'm looking for ebooks that are under $5.

Question #15:

Book recommendations?

Even though i'm only 14 I like a lot of edgy stuff, like Chuck Palahniuk, also John Irving. Right now i'm reading Lolita and a Stanley Kubrick biography. Please no young adult/teen drama love stories, something mature, dark, witty. My favorite books are:

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Widow for One Year by John Irving
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

So something along those lines

Question #16:

Has anyone ever read A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess?

Ive watched the film but i really wanna read the book, im kind of worried it might mess up my mind tho :/

Question #17:

What other books might I enjoy reading?

Some authors and books I'm really into are Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, Etc.

What other eclectic or unique authors or books might one suggest for me?

Question #18:

Which would you recommend for a book study?

Over the summer holidays, I've to study a book and write a timed essay on it when school starts up again which is going to be a major part of my final grade. The book has to be an adult book, so we find it a bit challenging. I've chosen 5books and was wondering what one people would think is the better choice.
I've chosen, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and The Grass is Singing by Dorris May Lessing.

Question #19:

What Should I Read For Summer?

I have to pick a book for my summer reading. I don't really like to read and I want something that is short and easy to read. I would also like a book that has a movie after it. What do you suggest?

Here are the options:
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
The Forger, Paul Watkins
My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
PS forget about clockwork orange. I just previewed the movie and there is no way im watching that.

Question #20:

What's Your Top 5 From The List?

Strictly based on Random House's BOARD'S list of 100 best novels: Click Here please pick your top 5 most enjoyable books.

Please only answer if you have read AT LEAST 10 books in the list.

I have read the following from the list:
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
1984 by George Orwell
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London





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