A Clockwork Orange

Farenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange, Handmaid's Tale - Much better and scarier than any news clipping today about the possible future path for government interference in thought and action. Takes things to their logical conclusions.

on HN, 2016

It's written in it's own language, a mixture of Russian and UK slang, which one cannot read at first. About 3 chapters in, the language clicks and then a good reader starts the book over from the beginning.

on HN, 2025

the main character is a hardened criminal and is the narrator, he spends the entire novel explaining his philosophy of life, which by the end of the novel you realize is the same philosophy of modern politics, and the UK edition of the novel ends with the entire novel being the story of a senior member of parliament's youth origin story.

on HN, 2025

The fact that the novel is in a fictional language increases the reader's submersion in the story line, creating one of the most impactful novels I know.

on HN, 2025

There is an invented slang used in the book, which make the first pages difficult, as you have to work out what is being said. But the book is much richer for it.

on HN, 2015