I enjoyed this book, at over 600 pages I finished it in well under a week, and even then the end seemed to come on suddenly. Again, Huxley amuses the reader whilst delivering his thoughts and reflections, this time mainly centred around pacifism. This didn't add anything to the book for me, but I found the storyline good enough, and the way that the chapters are achronological seemed to give some unexpected variety of excitement to the whole affair. This is a must read for Huxley fans, I think, and better than the last one of his that I read, Antic Hay, which was thoroughly good too. Like that book, this one is hilarious in places, I'm never quite sure if he means to be so funny, but I think it's the frank and perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated things his characters do and say, so convincingly believable at the same time, that does it for me. ( )

Huxley at his best! This is probably my favorite from him, a lengthy read, and it will have you looking up words and translating, but worth the time. ( )

One of the greatest books of the 20th Century, and Huxley's best. ( )

Brilliant. ( )