- Audio CD
- Publisher: Harper (May 31 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061170623
- ISBN-13: 978-0061170621
- Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 12.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #824,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. After his youthful adventures of raping and pillaging, Alex finds himself in prison. When he volunteers for an experiment, his sentence is commuted to two weeks. The experiment leaves him physically incapable of doing wrong and releases him back into the world. However, when he repeatedly runs into people he has wronged in the past, his real suffering begins. This audiobook gives new life to Burgess's tale of recklessly violent youth, free will and true redemption. While Malcolm McDowell forever infused viewers with the look of Alex in the film, Tom Hollander performs an even more amazing feat. With a smooth, almost lyrical, crisp voice, Hollander delivers Burgess's nadsat dialect to readers with such rhythmic cadence that listeners will easily understand the extensive slang used throughout the book. This unabridged production also includes the 21st chapter, which was not dramatized in the film or in the book's original U.S. publication. The audiobook opens with a brief note by Burgess on living with the book's legacy. The final CD features selected readings by Burgess from a previous recorded abridged version. While it's interesting to hear the older and gruffer voice, it does not compare to Hollander's performance. A Penguin paperback. (July)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Book Description
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"
This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."
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5.0 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Better than reading the book!, Sep 2 2007
By G. Guthrie "fiction book collector" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Clockwork Orange Unabridged Cd (Audio CD)
Tom Hollander who reads this book does a wonderful job. The slang that is used non-stop in this book can sometimes be hard to follow, but to have Tom, with an English accent read through these funny descriptive terms just makes the book. His voice acting just adds an extra dimension to the text that is enjoyable. I really can't say enough about the voice acting, it is top notch!Now the book itself is top notch, too. It starts with the ultra violence of Alex and his droogs, and then veers into the brainwashing of Alex to try and get him back into society but without his violent urges. Well this causes problems with the religious types and some intellectuals who believe freedom of choice is more important than curing a person of his ill ways. And then it ends with such a simple statement of life, which I won't give away. It's an intellectual book which addresses moral and social problems in our society, and causes the listener to judge these actions that occur in the book.
The best thing about this book is, even though it was written in 1962, it does not feel dated in the least bit.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterful Narration, as Tom Hollander becomes Alex, Nov 17 2008
By Raymond P. Keen "Raymond P. Keen" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Clockwork Orange Unabridged Cd (Audio CD)
I agree with the reviewer, G. Guthrie, that this is one of the rare occasions when an audio version of a novel may be better than the original. Or at least more accessible.Tom Hollander, a native of England, brings to life the "Nadsat" language created by Anthony Burgess. All difficulty of pronunciation, as one might find in reading silently, is erased by the perfect and fluid language gifts of Mr. Hollander.
Alex, and his "droogs," and his parents, and his "Post-Corrective Advisor, P. R. Deltoid," etc., are captured in all their uniqueness by the voice of Tom Hollander. In my opinion, this would not be possible in reading "A Clockwork Orange" on one's own.
Of course the basic text is just plain entertaining and very funny in a caustic sort of way. So one cannot go wrong by reading alone.
In listening to this audio version of "A Clockwork Orange" by Tom Hollander, I often thought of the acting performance of Malcolm McDowell, who so brilliantly played Alex in Stanley Kubrick's film version of "A Clockwork Orange" in 1971. I doubt that even Malcolm McDowell could have done as well as Tom Hollander has done on this audio.
I give it five stars, and highly recommend it, even if you own and have read the novel.
"What's it going to be then, eh?"
Raymond P. Keen
Okinawa, Japan
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rounds Out a Clockwork Trifecta..., May 20 2009
By Book Knurd "You'll Poke Your Eye Out!" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Clockwork Orange Unabridged Cd (Audio CD)
If you've enjoyed the book and/or the Kubrick movie, then you're going to love this audiobook.Tom Hollander's rendering is so very similar to that of Malcom McDowel's performance as Alex in the movie, that at times it would be difficult to distinguish one from the other. His accents, pronunciation, intonation and dramatizations blend magnificently to form a captivating bridge between the book and the movie, thereby making the audiobook an integral part of the Clockwork trinity.
The story of disaffected youth employing anti-social behaviors in order to establish their place in society is as relevant today as it was 40 years ago. The characters, the settings and the situations show very little age - in other words, it's not difficult to imagine that Clockwork was written yesterday. The result, even a modern day teen with a semi-sophisticated reading palette could find Clockwork readable as well as be able to relate with the characters.
My copy includes the 21st chapter left out of the original US publications and not included in the movie. Frankly, I prefer the story without the final chapter - gives it a more foreboding and ominous feel. Also in my copy, there is a bonus CD with Burgess reading a number of chapters from the book. Though interesting to hear his interpretation of the words, phrases and rhythm of the story he is obviously a much better writer than orator. The extra CD certainly adds to the experience but, mostly, it best serves to illustrate what a remarkable job Hollander did as narrator.
Read the book. See the movie. Listen to the audio. Three powerful slam dunks.
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