Clockwork Orange

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." Franz Kafka Enough said!.

Wow. The horrors of this book is the essence of its beauty.

An interesting factoid I came across: the reason Burgess chose to use orange in the title (and the titular concept itself) was because orange, when spelled out, resembles orang, the Malay word for human/person (Burgess had once been stationed in Malaya and Brunei). In addition, the division of the book into 3 parts consisting of 7 chapters each also made me think of the Chinese proverb Bu Guan San Qi Er Shi Yi (meaning recklessly, but literally it can also mean '3x7=21, whatever', in reference to a logical fallacy joke the proverb was based on).