Going into this, I was basically fearing 1984 all over again—I’d been extremely disappointed by Orwell’s novel (though I loved Animal Farm when I first read it), and I was slightly terrified that Brave New World would end up exactly the same way. For the most past, it kept me more interested, althou...
Wow, just wow... This is going to take some time to digest. This I chose as my banned book for the 2015 Pop Sugar reading challenge, and after reading it I can see why. Drugs, sex and conditioning all combine to create a "utopian" stable society, in which test tube babies are the norm, and the id...
I gave this 3.5 stars but rounded to a 4 on Goodreads."But if you know about God, why don't you tell them? asked the Savage indignantly. Why don't you give them these books about God?For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about Go...
Brave New World is a interesting take on the world in the future and how we interact with each other and do or react to things. I read this and, 1984 by George Orwell, a couple of months ago. In my mind they have jumbled together and I am not sure what scenes come from which book. I believe aft...
What a book. What. A. Book. An absolutely terrifying account of what a utopian society could look like in the future—and the effects it could have on someone raised outside of it. Parts were absolutely frustrating and the protagonist's irritation was palpable at points. Not a dull moment. Would high...
Aldous Huxley's cautionary tale of the price of contentment has been lauded as his prophetic masterpiece, unfortunately upon finishing "Brave New World" I found neither a masterpiece nor junk it was just an average book that didn't seem to have a clear story. Huxley constructs a blissful world in ...
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