WELL EXCUSE ME, BUT WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ? . I could imagine a conversation went on between Burgess and his friends like this. 
 Burgess : O my brothers, I just publish a dystopian novel. 
 Friends : Great, dude. Good for you. Is it like Orwell's 1984 with a middle-age narrator and a totalitarian government spying on people everywhere? Or Huxley's Brave New World where everybody are scientifically procreated and assigned into different castes? 
 Burgess : No, this is real horrowshow. It's about a 15 years old murderer and rapist who fantasized about tolchocking and killing other people while listening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. And also, he take drugs and seduce 10 years old girl into his bed. 
 Friends :... *nudges each other* "Let's pretend we don't know him". 
 Ahaha, but this novel is real good. It shocks you and traumatized you, but to be honest, some books are not meant to be comfortable and loving and happy - sometimes you need to be dragged you out of your snug mentality and wormed through your head with their disturbing thoughts and messages. A Clockwork Orange did just that, if not more. Now whenever I opened my Der Freuschitz and fly under my Mendelssohn's String Quartet, A Clockwork Orange would come back to me again - with its psychopathic Alex and his love for classical music. After all, Alex had wondered, "Is it better for a man to have chosen evil, than to have good imposed upon him?" . There is no definite answer for that, as Burgess had pointed out. Perhaps the world is never meant to be straightforward and beautiful, never to be wholly good and utopian, but lingers on this gray area between the corrupt but free will, and the virtuous but inculcated obedience. Plus, read it for the Nadsat. One could never be bored with a murderer who spoke in Shakespearean language and Russian. "Come, glooby bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely with someone getting knifed and others doing the knifing. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen."