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Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point, not by Charles Goren.
Glad moi patched the hole at #26. This is more serious than the apostolic succession. ... Series, Anne McCaffrey's Pern
Series, The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella, Ursula K. Leguin's Earth Sea, Disc World, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
by Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Beatles1964 Booksloth gets it! It was Point Counter Point Point Counter Point? ... the latter, although it was never a favorite, and I've been meaning to reread it to see if it holds up. Hope you like Point Counter Point!
... I've kept my copy for a potential reread sometime in the future. It might also have been that I was expecting another Point Counter Point (lots of dialogue and philosophical debating and whatnot, with very little plot to speak of), which isn't what Huxley was trying to do with Brave New Wo ... ... this book and it's foresight into our current modern world and obssession with personal pleasure. But, I have not yet read Point, Counterpoint and see that you like it. I have a copy and look forwar to reading it.
I also was taken by surprise with The Good Soldier and enjoyed it a great ... ... far:
1) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley--I found this one really disappointing actually, considering how phenomenal Point Counter Point is. I almost couldn't believe it was the same Huxley and I have no idea why this is so acclaimed. There was no subtlety, the characters were two-dimens ... Arctic, you maybe are rather wanting fiction. How about Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley?
Probably more tomorrow when I'm more alert.
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