A Few Things I Forgot To Mention

Rating: 10/10 (8 June 1999)

I want to add a few things to what I said in my first post. First of all, as I understand it Stanley Kubrick didn't even know that there was 21 chapters in Anthony Burgess' book. For various reasons (some of them conflicting) the American version had only 20 chapters, leaving out Alex's self-determined change for the better. Only in the latest American printing is the 21st chapter included. Anthony Burgess himself said at one point that Kubrick didn't know about it. And the book is excellent as well, by the way, and Burgess does deserve recognition for the book that is his own personal masterpiece, even if he didn't think so. May Kubrick and Burgess *both* be remembered for the definitive thesis on freedom and human nature that is "A Clockwork Orange."