Brave New World

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Summary: wkrc wcpo cpo
Review: Obviously the first Chichester subsumes your knowledge of
chirally identified dna fullerene polymers.

Hard to filter.. Given the Anfinsen graft and ectopic seizure
shown at 6 of Jones.. a trace.

The moral seizure of ocular brain dysfunction on the dock to
Montauk assures the driver passes up the yellow cake and
mainframes you are being so dutiful about.

Your Artemis Yahoo is a floating tachyonic decimal point.

I think you get the ppoint.. Psychiatric penal plenaries are
like you, krc, visitor, welcome in the birefringence of this
sentence.

Your are formaldehyde tupperware conveyers. anti cash root
mechanics after omniscient advertisement... the eeg echelon
racket you fell into so innocently.

Memento mori continuum, remember innocence.

You are interdimensional travelers with free lance press
credential of the tachycardia probe. Feel of it. You will
find yourself in a hypnotic reverie of restless limbs
then a crouch trying the thigh muscles to stand. The Bornea
bromelia is blooming next to the Arabidopsis.

No flourescent dyes today, eh?

adv.

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Summary: A Classic with a Lasting Message
Review: I liked this book because, even though it is a historical classic, its relevance spans decades. Perhaps its a bit eccentric in its view of the future, but none in that genre would be readable without an element of exasperated disbelief. I enjoyed the book, but I would recommend 1984 or Animal Farm, for their similar messages, before I would recommend this book.

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Summary: afraid of the classless society
Review: I just finished reading Brave New World.

Here is my take on it.

Huxley was an aristocrat from the upper echelons of British society. He was extremely well-heeled. His family was incredibly distinguished in politics, arts and science.

No doubt Huxley, like his peers, also kept vivid memories about the horrors of World War I, the Great War. Indeed, Brave New World was written during the inter-war period. The gruesome nature of WW1 left its indelible mark on every living person in Europe.

Being an aristocrat, and witnessing the horrors of WW1, Huxley was desparately afraid of the complete breakdown of the hierarchical society in which he was so comfortably placed. It is clear that he was terrified, for example, by the prospect of biological weapons spoiling everything. (By his own admission he did not forsee nuclear weapons, thank goodness.)

The Bolshevik revolution in Russia, with the rise of the working man, must have also played heavily on this young aristocrat's mind.

Also, the development of awesome new technology such as the mass production of automobiles and other consumer goods seemed to signal, to Huxley, a breakdown in conventional society in which the great refined men of arts and science dominated.

So, Brave New World is Huxley's reaction to these traumatic events. The book is his concept of what would happen if you combine the horrors of modern warfare, the rise of the working class, and the advent of high technology.

But, you see, it did not turn out like that. Nothing like it.

Huxley remained convinced, for example, that society had to be stratified into classes. Well, sir, it doesn't. Notice in Brave New World the prominence of Alphas and the lowly status of the Epsilons. Well, lo and behold, the real-life Huxley was an Alpha-Plus!

Huxley simply could not envision a society in which a person of modest background could become an Alpha-Plus through hard work, grit, and innate intelligence. Huxley believed that Alpha-Plus's were born as Alpha-Plus's and Epsilon's were born as Epsilon's, as simple as that.

So, the fact that babies are decanting from bottles in Brave Bew World as Alphas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons is actually a strange comfort to Huxley. Although he realizes that the concept is an abhorrent one, the bottom line is that the class hierarchy is preserved in Huxley's Brave New World, to his advantage! Isn't that interesting?

Well, I could go on, but I have made my main point. I could say that the novel is poorly written. Or I could say that most of what Huxley forsaw did not turn out to be true and most of what turned out to be true Huxley did not forsee. But that would be unfair, and once could level the same criticism at Jules Verne and H.G. Wells without really getting anywhere.

So, I leave with the final thought of the day...

Huxley did not believe in the concept that human spirit is distributed equally into all of us, from the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich. Huxley believed that the lion's share of the spirit went to the aristocratic class. That is why they are the aristocrats: because at birth they received the lion's share of human spirit! Well, balderdash to you, Mr Huxley. Your Brave New World will never come to pass because you and your ilk and never going to be put back in charge.



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Summary: Not the best written dystopian literature, but still good.
Review: I first read this book while I was a freshman in high school and it was the first book I read that really made me question society. I remember thinking, "wow, this could happen." Several years later when I was in college I had to read it for a Politics and the Arts class. After reading lots of really good literature, I found Brave New World to be a little less well-written than I had once thought. However, I now appreciate the storyline much better and I can now see how society is moving toward this type of society. If you enjoy dystopian literature I recommend this one.

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Summary: New World Order
Review: 3 1/2 Stars
Replace soma with television, harvest centers with embrionic stem cell research and controllers with the United Nations and you know where we stand right?

This is a very light and entertaining book that will only take a few hours to finish, but you will think about it for many more. Its dystopian entertainment value more than makes up for its simplistic writing style.

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Summary: Brave indeed
Review: BNW opened my eyes to see how our society could be and how closely related it is to the society in the novel. I think BNW is more philosophical then it is a fantasy novel. I don't think Huxley is a great author, but he had a great idea, and he got the point across. There were a few parts that seemed incomplete, however I would recommend this book to anybody for it's analytical views about the goal of society and its interesting themes. ]
I have two other great books to recommend: Children's Corner by McCrae and Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck

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Summary: Ony the Greatest Book in the Universe, Gosh!
Review: A technologically advanced London is the primary setting of the novel. In this kind of futuristic, but kind of "now" society, science has become the tyrant of human behavior. Those in control in the New World abuse technology that was once intended to make human life easier, in order to force others to become their slaves. Aldous Huxley ridicules how technology, over time, can serve as a replacement for everything. In the story religion, art, and even the mother's womb are easily replaced by the novel's brand of science. Huxley points out, as our world continues to grow and develop, we too can easily fall into the abusive mannerisms as described in the novel. The secondary setting is a Reservation of savages in New Mexico, which is rather primitive, compared to the New World. The change in setting is significant because it emphasizes the contrast between the two opposite sides of the man and machine spectrum, one side being extremely primitive and the other side extremely technologically advanced. Huxley writes the novel in a third person omnipresent, and places a few oddball characters just to stir up the plot. This allows the reader to experience and share many different character's experiences as well as view and criticize all their different view points on the society they live. This is an amazing book, a definite read for anyone that has some spare time on their hands.

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Summary: Brave New World Stunningly Evocative
Review: Woweee! This'n were good, sure nuff. I'd learn y'all bout what a good'n it were, but I's gots t'go. Be good, y'all.

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Summary: might be the worst book ever written
Review: huxley's brave new world is a story about the future world and how messed up it will be. 'civilization', as it is called in the novel, is all about sacrificing art, love, and beauty for artificial happiness.

the plot was slow to pick up from the start [and, actually, it never did pick up] and very confusing. it was also a very dirty book and a dark portrayal of the future world. in the novel, all humans are created in embryo factories, babies are hypnotized and given electric shocks, chilren are taught erotic play, and everyone is constantly high on a drug named soma. the book's vivid descriptions of sex, drugs, and violence really make you wonder what kind of man huxley was.

aside from my personal prejudices, the story itself was pretty lame in that NOTHING HAPPENED. what huxley provided us with was a 300-page description of the "future".

not much of a satire and not very witty either.

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Summary: Brave New World
Review: Aldous Huxley has some pretty caustic observations to share about industrial society in this futuristic novel. In his Brave New World, happiness is the supreme good, industry and science have made happiness possible for all, and as a result mankind is diminished. Most of the book was rather slow going for me but the "trial" scene where the Controller explains himself to the Savage was worth sticking around for. I also enjoyed reading how a writer of the 1930s imagined technology 600 years hence: people traveling in helicopters and rocket planes, going to the "feelies" for entertainment, and so on.