A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

This is apparently going to be one of the freakier books on the list.  I watched the movie preview for it and almost switched to another book. However, it must be finished at some point so why not now? Plus, its one of the books that is on all three lists.

A vicious 15 year old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare version of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the State undertakes to reform Alex to 'redeem' him, the novels asks, "At what cost?"

Excited!