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Summary: Creepy Brilliance
Review: The concept is startling at least, horrifying more accurately put. No matter what he was under the influence of while writing this book, Aldus Huxley poses a fascinating scenario of a new world with new rules. Find yourself absorbed in this alternate world order and re-examine how things are, how they could be, and perhaps how you think they should be.
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Summary: Well written, but disturbing
Review: This book is written well, despite it's use of lofty language, but I found it very disturbing. It makes a very solid, good point, that if we'e not careful our own ignorance can lead us into oblivion... and that sometimes what we consider utopia can cost us our creaticity, happiness, freedom, and individuality... this book is rather scary, if you want a slap in the face or a rude awakening-- read it. But have a dictionary near by!
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Summary: The Best Book Of All Time
Review: This is the best that I have ever read. Please do youself a favor and read it!
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Summary: entertaining, really sort of funny
Review: I found BNW very entertaining, and I was fascinated by Huxley's technological vision of the future. In a foreword to the book writen 30 years after initial publication, Huxley talks about the scientific/industrial/technological changes he did not envision while writing BNW--and he mentions that he did not forsee the importance of nuclear fission. Thirty years after Huxley's belated foreword, his vision of bio-production seems right on the mark--he foresaw the ethical issues of biotechnology, particularly cloning. But, obviously, computers are completely absent in this vision of the future. Much of the book takes place against a backdrop of what (to me, today) seem like "Dr. Frankenstein"-type laboratories--pretty funny. I admire Huxley for trying to envision the future--it's a risky thing for an author to do. I do find his portrayal of Native Americans and people of color entirely sterotypical. As for women...let's just say the Brave New World is a white male world. It seems to me he simply projected the existing political/sociological structure into the distant future, and I really did not sense that he considered an alternative. It didn't spoil the book for me--I just thought it was funny that the new world was really so old in that sense. (Yet with regard to sexual mores--it was quite different.) I enjoyed the book and I admire Huxley. But I found the sections of the book in which characters debate happiness and the meaning of the social order to be pretty bombastic, no matter how heartfelt.
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Summary: sadly similar...
Review: The book offers so much to the reader as a true 20th century classic; wonderful writing, true thought on account of the writer, great insight into the lives of the world that Huxley fantasizes, but sadly this world Huxley has created in his book is quite far from pure fantasy, it is becoming more and more relevant to our world here in the United States atleast. Only by reading this book one can understand the true similarities between Huxleys Brave World and our own. I definitely suggest the reading of this novel not only to those that love pouring into a book on a sunday afternoon, but especially to those who already look at our world and realize that we are doomed for a terrible decline in our morality in the next millenium.
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Summary: Huxley's fantasy is becoming our reality.
Review: This novel is a masterpiece of a Utopian novel. Aldous Huxley skill as a social commentator shines out in this terrific novel. Huxley is one of few authors that ha the ability to make the improbable seem probable. Huxley expresses the negative effects of the advancements in science. It is the idea that knowledge is power and for those who control and use knowledge holds the power. I highly reccomend this book for all to read.
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Summary: The Student's View (Village Academy)
Review: This is a thoughtful book, in which Huxley has used his great knowledge of human relations to bring an eerie reality to this story. This is ones of those books that cannot be ignored. This book was written before the mark of the Nazi totalitarian state of World War II and used the tool of conditioning and drugs instead of military terror and might, that was the basis of George Orwell's "1984" that was written after the war. It was an exciting look into Huxley's view of society in the future and the social problems linked with it. Well worth the read.
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Summary: The enigmatic classic
Review: A couple of reviews ago a reader mentioned Huxley's world... What he has failed to realize is that it is our world. In many aspects Huxley's masterpiece reminds me of Baudrillard; mainly apocalyptic culture, hyperreality, simulation, etc. The ending is fairly underrated in my mind. I remember when I was in High School and people complained about the ending. Personally the ending scared me, the ultimate shock in my mind. I doubt any of this helped anyone. I am just too tired right now to write anything more involved.
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Summary: Strange New World
Review: In his book Huxley depicts a future society in which everyone is genetically created to serve a certain task for all of their life. I agree with Huxley's cry to save the individual. This book is excelent at showing what could happen if we lose our diversity. The thing I didn't like about his book is the lack of attention he put to his characters. One of the styles of the book however is to focus on society as a whole so I can understand why he shied away from developing his characters. Still, it was hard to see what motivated most of his characters. All in all I though it was a good book though, and would recomend it to anyone interested in distopian fiction.
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Summary: Essential
Review: Critiquing Brave New World is like a fish critiquing water. Everyone must of course read it, everyone should of course own it. Ironically enough, this book is one of the major things that serve to condition our own Alphas.
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