Well, I finished it. I'll have an actual review up next month but I can say now that this was definitely not a favorite. Interesting but I just did not like it.
I found this a difficult pill to swallow, although Huxleys story is fiction and futuristic parrellels can be drawn from history and the present.I don't want to spoil anyone's enjoyment so all I'll say is that I would not want a world like this to become a reality.
How is it that in the case of some authors, like Huxley, I can take one book of theirs, read it, hate it, and I can then read another of their works and love it? Aldous Huxley is a good example for that. I hated [b:Point Counter Point|5135|Point Counter Point|Aldous Huxley|http://d.gr-assets.com/boo...
A fascinating study of what happens when everything goes right. The masses are happy and healthy, their needs are satisfied, there is no war or crime, there is no religion or Shakespeare (!). Yet,everything appears sterile, creepy... and boring. This 'brave new world' becomes especially frightening ...
it's hard to write a review for BNW, and the 500,000 reads + 8,000 reviews (1.5%, among the lowest) shows the impact of the "required high school reading" factor involved here, where like its cousin book [b:1984|5470|1984|George Orwell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348990566s/5470.jpg|153313] the id...
The first half of the book was so boring I could've mindlessly dozed off. It's ridiculous all the scientific terms inoculated into the huge paragraphs full of information dumps. However, the last third of the book somehow redeemed itself with all the interesting conspiracies and John's savagery. Bas...
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