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Summary: The Logical Managment of the Human Animal
Review: While most readers find the content of this book frightening, I have always seen it in a different light. It only makes sense that the physically and cerebrally superior lead the world and reproduce. Is it not more humane for the Epsilon's of the world to enjoy cleaning toilets and sweeping floors? There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country alone that would be much better off with some pre-natal programming, which would in turn benefit the rest of us by eliminating the burdens to society.
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Summary: Close Predictions
Review: Just having finished A Brave New World I am writing this review. The book is about a society where everybody is made in a factory and are brainwashed from day one to think how the government wants them to. Then a boy from the outside and is brought into this world that he doesn't like. He hopes that he will show people that living this way isn't right. I thought that A Brave New World was a great prediction about how Aldous Huxley thought this world would be like one day based upon the trends of politics and technology. The technology that is presented in A Brave New World is almost what technology is today. The way people live their lives is extremely close to how we live our lives in today's society. For the most part I enjoy reading this book, but some parts of it were either just confusing or were not detailed enough. I feel the Aldous Huxley was a smart man, but lacked in his ability to write. Aldous Huxley has written six other books that have been very popular. So, in conclusion I thought that this book was good, but I feel that the writing lack at little bit.
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Summary: a classic
Review: Simply one of my favorite sci fi books of all time.
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Summary: A Seminal Work
Review: Huxley paints an unflattering picture of the future. He reminds us of the terrible things that could follow if we begin to meddle to much with our own destiny. I can only say that this book will change you, and that you should pick it up.
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Summary: I can't get over the fact that this was written so long ago!
Review: I read this first in High School in 94' and was taken aback by the way it feels like it was written in 93'. It makes you wonder as you see their world of free love and government happy drug and a caste system where everyone is bred to like their place in life, what is wrong with that?
As you read about all that they have given up and don't even realise that they have and what they have lost as a people as a result, you see why it is wrong.
A very thought provoking read.
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Summary: Brave New World
Review: It wasn't the best book I read, but it was very interesting. The savage had difficulty in coping with civilization as it is so he runs away from it. I believe that the book has become frighteningly real.
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Summary: Read Other Things
Review: Look people, if you can't read this book, set is down and read something else. Don't go on saying how boring it is, or complicated. Personally, I didn't like it. But I don't like people pointlessly dissing books even more.
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Summary: Good Message, Poor Delivery
Review: The message of "Brave New World": that striving for utopia can only lead to bad things, is an important one, especially today (this was written in the '30s!! Some books just don't age). But I fail to see what was so great about the actual STORY. Other reviewers have fawned all over it, but it just isn't ENGROSSING; it doesn't pull you into itself. Better reads: 1984, Animal Farm, same basic principle, easier to read, more fun to read.
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Summary: Thousands of horses were beaten to death in World War II.
Review: Why add one more?Aldous Huxley overworked an important and thought-provoking concept. At many points, he preferred shock value to realism or even decent allegory. Once you've uncovered his thesis, somewhere in the first paragraph, the rest of the novel is a foregone conclusion. The plot itself is predictable and has become cliched, if it was not already at the time it was written. The concept of an ultra-mechanized totalitarian state is not an uncommon one, and it is executed extremely poorly here. The characters represent such extremes that it's very difficult to emotionally connect with, and therefore care about, any of them. This isn't always crucial to a story, but here, Huxley defends his thesis purely on the merit of his characters. Neither society is designed to be appealing. If you don't like to be challenged or surprised by your reading, this is the book for you. If you have read these reviews and know that the novel is an attack on the continuing advance of technology and its use by various governments to track and control their citizens, then the rest of the book is merely elaboration.
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Summary: A Depiction of the Future
Review: Creating a depiction of what the future can hold is a task that Aldous Huxley tackled in his 1932 published book, Brave New World. It tells the story of two main characters, Bernard Marx and John ?the Savage.? The rebellious Marx is filled with an inner hatred towards the Utopian society. John is an outsider with many dissimilar views on Utopia. Both live in a controlled world that divides humans into a caste system. The story begins 632 years after the brave new world (Utopia) has existed. Babies are born in test tubes, a person?s future is determined before birth, the state police control the people?s freedom, Soma is a substance that prevents the people from opening their mind, and the new world is ruled by dictators called World Controllers. Huxley enlightens the reader with a curiosity for the new world but does not give Marx or John the influence to change Utopia into democracy (or sanity). Marx is merely a thinker; he does not show any action towards his belief on society. I believe the intensity of the climax would be greater if Marx took initiative with John to spread the word of freedom and democracy. Although John tries to teach society of open-mindedness, he fails and ends up being in the hands of the people. The novel would serve a better purpose in change than in persistence.
With the climax not being fulfilled to my expectations, Huxley does create a forecast when writing about the topic of overpopulation. This is only one example in the novel where Huxley is picked out as a predictor and makes me speculate where our society could be headed. In the 1930?s economists were afraid that the population of life on earth was outgrowing the availability of natural resources (Paul, Warren. Brave New World-Cliff Notes). Huxley foretold this bold statement. In his novel, the depiction of the state police keeping track of how many infants were born and the plan of social role before birth, was comparable to the problem raised in the 1930?s. Issues like overpopulation and human restrictions add great curiosity to the story, making Huxley brilliant at his work. He leaves you wondering what this world may come to if our freedom is ruled by a higher dictatorship. I recommend this novel to anyone seeking a possible outlook on the future of our society.
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