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Work detailsBrave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
I personally was not disappointed with the book. I found the concept very creative and well put with an amazing plot. However, most people are not fans of books that have endings with the odd horror that this one did. I read this book because my mom had been urging me to read it as did my Early World Humanities teacher.  edspicer | May 5, 2013 |  While this isn't one of my favorites, I am overwhelmed by Huxley's ability to write of such a world from the vantage point of living in the 1930's. I also found his ability to address politics, sex, religion, society, etc. in such a short novel with that kind of clarity (from a point of view standpoint) to be rather amazing. I am glad I read this book. It is certainly thought provoking. (  ) sbenne3 | May 4, 2013 | I remember finding the first chapter boring, the rest pretty good, and the end bewilderingly sad. I'm not sure what the author was trying to elicit, other than the empty feeling I felt towards the end. I'm not sure whether the empty feeling is a good thing, overall. Maybe I should reread it. (  ) heterocephalusglaber | Apr 26, 2013 | This book inspired my decision to stay away from happy meds as much as I could... it's a treasure to our society and, I believe, an inspiration for many of the great dystopian stories we are receiving in YA lit today. (  ) StefanieGeeks | Apr 11, 2013 | Brave New World is pretty easy to read and get along with, for a dystopian novel, and there are some pretty good quotes. For the most part I didn't think the prose was exceptional, but it was functional and got the story told. There were several things that bugged me about it, though. The first thing is the characters -- I'm all about characters in my reading, and if I don't connect with a book, it's likely because I didn't get on with the characters. Brave New World doesn't really have any characters I really got to like. Those that are 'civilised' are too conditioned, too vapid, and the 'savages' are too... intense, partially just by comparison. The focus on pain and self-denial in the 'savage' society is as difficult to get behind as the unthinking, unindividuality of the 'civilised' society. Which is basically the other problem I have: that there are only two extremes. That's partially covered by the misfits who get sent off to live on islands, but not really. The message about what constitutes humanity, what is really living, is good, though. "But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." Pretty much. ( ) shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 |
 It has remained for Aldous Huxley to build the Utopia to end Utopias-or such Utopias as go to mechanics for their inspiration, at any rate. He has satirized the imminent spiritual trustification of mankind, and has made rowdy and impertinent sport of the World State whose motto shall be Community, Identity, Stability. Is contained inIs abridged inIs replied to inHas as a student's study guide
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(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:31:06 -0400)
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers. A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art. This is surely Huxley's best book.… (more)
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