content: For those who have not seen Stanley Kubrick's screen adaptation of this book, I highly recommend reading the book, then renting the movie after the fact. Both are excellent, but as usual, many things in the movie seem sensationalized rather than understood according to Burgess' brilliantly way of communicating on paper. It's language style and first person account has a unique way of communicating a drifting conscience, of hooligan Alex. The style Burgess uses intesifies awareness while softening the shock, despite the horrendous acts of Alex. One of the challenges that movies and books of this type normally fail at doing.