A Clockwork Orange: Orange You Glad It's Not Herland?

A Clockwork Orange will make Herland look like Great Expectations; a book that any class of 2008 member will tell you was the epitome of terrible literature, as we were forced to read it freshman year. Herland was not an interesting read in my point of view; it failed to keep my attention with its sorry excuse of a plotline. After reading up on Clockwork Orange, it only took a few sentences of summary to ease my mind, as I realized I am about to begin a book that will be much better than Herland. This story, from what I have discovered so far, follows the life of a 15 year old kid named Alex in a futuristic society overrun by hoodlums and moral lacking citizens. Not that I myself am a hoodlum like Alex and his cronies, but this novel already reaches out to me more than Herland ever could. There is no mythical all woman society that can bore any reader to tears, instead Clockwork revolves around teenagers close to my age that I can actually relate to. From simply reading the summary provided by Sparknotes, I am already intrigued by the story line. I can't wait to read a novel set in a vaguely Socialist future (roughly, the late seventies or early eighties) -- a dreary, routinized England that roving gangs of teen-age thugs terrorize at night instead of one taking place in a an all woman environment. Upon further review of the summary of A Clockwork Orange, the plot just seems to entice me. This fifteen year old boy, Alex, is sentenced to fourteen years in jail after one of his rape victims has died. I would much rather discover how that turns out opposed to finding out if a group of three men will have a good time in feminist land. I hope and expect A Clockwork Orange to excel past Herland in any and ever aspect, then again, most books can do that in my point of view. It will surely be an interesting read; my only fear is that I am hyping it up too much in mind and it will not live up to its reputation. I'll be back in a couple days to analyze the early goings of the novel.