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Loading... Brave new worldby Aldous Huxley
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Member recommendations:KayCliff recommends Love among the ruins : a romance of the near future by Evelyn Waugh KayCliff recommends This Perfect Day by Ira Levin afyfe recommends The Giver by Lois Lowry litterate recommends The Year of Compulsory Childbirth by Nigel Farringdon, "Another tyrannical dystopia - but in this one, the rebels fight back! The parallels are many, some subtle, some crude. The humorous use of names falls (see more) squarely into the latter category. Still, if you liked one, you'll like the other." Huge_Horror_Fan recommends 1984 by George Orwell ( see more recommendations and anti-recommendations for this book )
Amazon.com Amazon.com (ISBN 0060929871, Paperback)"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:29:58 -0400) |
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