Martin McGale's story about A Clockwork Orange

When I read "A Clockwork Orange" as a teenager, it was the first book that really made me think about things outside of the story itself; about society and humanity. Not only that - it made me question these things. Are we born or conditioned to be good or bad? Who gets to decide who is good and who is bad? How do we even define "good" and "bad"? It is also a vivid and astonishingly accurate vision of the future that was to come: gangs of teenagers owning the streets, free to roam around conducting senseless acts of violence with no remorse and no real worry of being punished - Burgess was practically describing Britain in the 2000s forty years before it happened. The young characters even have their own street language, which is another element that takes the book to another level. What starts off as indecipherable nonsense on page one becomes your second language by the final chapter. For its creativity with language, incredible imagery and for really making me think, "A Clockwork Orange" is the best book I have ever read.