'A Clockwork Orange'

What a unique book. It's a faceless world with no real culture or identity.

Then the language. Just when we think this dialect is used by everyone it's actually just used by the teenage rouges.

Most fascinating is the evolution of Alex, the book's hero. A young man with a heart for hate and violence, a passion for classical music and, yet, not a spot of dignity or respect.

It introduces the idea of violence as art when Alex opines about his heroes (Ludwig van, et al.) having achieved so much at an early age. It's almost Alex saw his kicking feet and punching fists as paint brushes. As if he's creating some grand bibliography.

Then he grows up as if none of it happened.