Once you learn the Nadsat language all by your oddy nochy, it's really a horroshow book to viddy.
If you viddied the film at the sinny, then you know the vesch.
Need a glossary?
grahzny - greasy, rookers - legs, nogas - feet, crasting - breaking in etc.
This book did take awhile to get into considering you had to learn a whole different language of slange (nadsat) before it made any sense. Here's an excerpt,
"They had no license for selling liquor, but there was no law yet against prodding some of the new veshces which they used to put into the old moloko, so you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other ceshches which would give you a nice quiet horroshow fifteen minutes admiring Bog And All His Holy Angels and Saints in you left shoe with lights bursting all over your mozg"
and so it continues...
Anthony Burgess was really quite ahead of his time. He was writing A Clockwork Orange before hippies, and LSD was commonplace, and while this novella is simply packed with the stuff, ten years later it would actually come into reality.
The clothes, the music, the slang, it was all predicted early on by Anthony Burgess...
This story of an incredibly violent teenager being brain washed into being good, and then released to his old self, may seem too violent, or too harsh, but the truth is that Anthony Burgess himself witnessed an extremely violent evening that included the raping of his wife in the first world war, which was the catalyst to write a novella questioning violent nature and humans position in it.
It really is an interesting book 10/10
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