"what's it going to be then, eh?" Review on A Clockwork Orange the book

I am going to review this book I read called A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I am positively in love with this book. If you read the movie it does not compare in the slightest to the book and leaves out important information. The storyline is about a boy named Alex who has three main interests: rape, violence, and beethoven. He leads a gang of his friends and they just do drugs and go around and rape people and committ acts of violence. It is told in a narrative-singular person first point of view.

The book has an errily portrail of what might happen in the future if teenagers get out of hand with little punishment. The book proceeds with the main character who robs a house then gets left behind by his gang and gets caught by police. The victim in the house dies and he is tried for murder.
The themes of the book go on about moral choice for humanity vs government control over people. While in jail the main character Alex goes through a program where he is forced to watch movies about violence then injected with drugs to make him nausous, so he associaties the two psychologically. He is then released into society.
The book gives very distinct details about Alex and the programming he goes through. The psychologically aspects are very eye-opening and the book draws your attention in from the first line. The author creates a slang that the teenagers use which is genius so that any generation may read it and understand what the children are saying.
The ending of the book is just awesome because it has 21 chapters which gives great symbolism to the age 21 or the becoming an adult. In the end of the book in the 21st chapter Alex realizes everything he was doing was childish and upon seeing his matured friends vows to change his ways and grow up. However the movie ommitts the 21st chapter ending.

Overall, the book is enjoyable to read with good details and chilling psychological aspects of government control over humanity. The slang used is fun and the characters are quirky and very well developed. I enjoyed reading this book and find it a must read for anybody who wants a thriller.