Island
by:
Aldous Huxley (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00ET9IBYK
Publish date: January 5th 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Philosophy,
Dystopia,
Utopia,
Fiction
Ok. 2.5 stars. Nothing more. Nothing less. I confess, I didn't finish it. I had high hopes for this book (out of respect for his previous—Brave New World is still in my thoughts regularly). But after getting through the ridiculously cliché characterization of the "Rani," I had to put it down. This c...
About a utopian SE Asian island society on the cusp of being corrupted by exploitation of oil. Reads more like a socio-political manifesto than a novel. The plot, such as it is, is just an excuse to contrive situations for characters to explain their life, philosophy, culture etc, rather than the dr...
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