A world without art. A world without religion. Without science, without love, without monogamy, without murder and without individual thought. Everyone is born to their station, artificially created into their job, their places in society and therefore their role. Everything is happy and as it shoul...
Cross-posted on Soapboxing I have this little theory -- a "little theory" being one of those half-assed ideas one has that won't stand up to scrutiny -- that a person can have either a Macbeth English major or a Hamlet English major. I myself had the Macbeth kind, having read the Scottish play thr...
Read this in honour of the banned books week, and I loved it. The story wasn't quite what I expected, but it was fascinating - definitely recommended if you want to read something thought-provoking, but not boring or hard to read as some classics are. I'm not ready to say my opinion about the utopia...
I have trouble rating this. Mostly because it's one weird book. It does not have a global argument. Things proceed as if by an association process. Logically but not... unified? I don't quite know how to... like interconnected episodes? Linear but not telling one thing. It made for a surprising ri...
This was a book I had been wanting to read for awhile. I read 1984 a little while ago and was interested to see what the Huxley had to add.I think I prefer this over 1984. It was a believable world with characters and events that made perfect sense, in a very twisted way. It is easy to imagine ou...
As a freshman in high school, I took Brit Lit this year. We read A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies over the summer, and I absolutely could not stand (or understand) ATTC, and LOTF was not much better. We started off the year with Beowulf, which was decent but a little to predictable for my ...
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temp...
I saw this book EVERYWHERE and in the end, I succumbed and read it. In the end, what a disappointing read it turned out to be. The introduction chapter with the director is long, dull and just plain info-dumping. The dystopian world is definitely not one that I’d want to live in, and to be honest, t...
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