Brave New World

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Summary: One of the six most important books of the 20th Century
Review: The most thought-provoking utopian/dystopia I've ever read. Better than "1984" and "Erewhon" put together and served with "soma". Peter Kreeft, an amazing writer and literary scholar, listed Brave New World as one of the six books of the 20th Century that he would make everyone read if he were God. And I would agree, because BNW is the most sobering (and clearest) fictional picture we have, of the end result of viewing mankind in strictly utilitarian terms. It could just as easily have been called "Grave New World".

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Summary: No Alcohol in Huxleys blood surrogate
Review: Thank Ford for books like this.The second best of the big three modern "Utiopa" novels after Orwells 1984.Huxleys bleek vision of a world of test tube babies and "soma" (a non-toxic drug which transports the user into a state of bliss)is also a biting satire on the present,the book is becoming more and more relevant with each passing year. It is into this world where emotions are controled from infancy and humans are manufactured with specific jobs in mind that "alpha plus" Bernard Marx brings John the innocent Savage.This book will be enjoyed by anyone (unless they happen to be an Epsilon or have alchol in their blood-surrogate).I hope they make it into a "feelie"some day.

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Summary: Savages or Civilized? Which one you want to be?
Review: The book starts out boringly, but as we move on it catches the reader in such a way that you have to complete it before you can go to bed. If you get through first 50 pages, you will very soon reach the end.

The novel is extremely thought provoking. I feel that the author has given us two extremes in the shape of Civilized Society and Savage Reseravation. The ideal society lies somewhere in between the two.

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Summary: Absolutly LOVE it! Great book for high schoolers and adults
Review: I was assigned this book for 11th grade British Literature. At the beginning of the book, it is very risque (especially for an assigned book) for example - the society thinks children are not normal if they don't like to participate in erotic play. This book, however, turned out to be the most fantastic book I have ever read. I loved it. If you liked Brave New World, you'll love The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

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Summary: read this
Review: its a great book..short enough? HAHA!

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Summary: A great book focusing on the improbability of such a utopia.
Review: Brave New World. Such a fitting title. A venture into the reaches of insanity. Who but Huxley could have imagined such a concept? Mass production of humans, unlimited sex, legal 'coke'...Although initially appearing a perfect society , the scene quickly changes as one discovers his savage side, his human side. Finding oneself to be independent, and not 'one cell in the tissue of society.' Such a society is an impossibility, and must be regarded as one. A great read for any sci-fi lovers.

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Summary: Brilliant! A book that makes one think!
Review: A brilliant book! It really makes you look at the World differently and think more for yourself. It should be required reading.

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Summary: A great novel that should escape no one!
Review: What seems like a Utopian society at first quickly turns into a strict Communist regime of the future. Comparing today to the possible future, Huxley, lets you analize humanity. A Great Book!

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Summary: Is such a world possible?
Review: Brave New World describes a utopian society with total conformity, where Ford is exalted to prophetic proportions, and the motto of Community, Identity, Stability reigns supreme. Is such a world possible?

The proposition of total conformity is one of few impossibilities. The idea that a world could exist solely upon procreation and driven by primal urges and electromagnetic golf is simply unattainable, as this novel points out.

Utopian society in itself contains inept thinking that it in the most simple of terms will never come into being. Improbability is the word of the century, as more things fall out of the perspective of impossibility, they too will fall vitcim to being shoved aside into the pile of discord.

Although I find such a novel impossible of becoming a reality, it is written masterfully and should be recognized as a novel of worth. Huxley's dream of utopia(or does the word nightmare apply?) may never come into being, thoughts such as these have paved the road to infinity, which man has traversed time and time again.

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Summary: A good book that makes you think...
Review: Brave New World was assigned to my 10th grade English for summer reading. At first I was reluctant to read the book, because it looked really boring. But when I started to read it I really started to like it. I thought it was a scary thought to think of this as "the future", and it made me think. Also I thought it was really wierd that Huxley wrote this story in the thirties. Sometimes this made the book of the 'future' humerous, but sometimes it was scary, because somethings are even starting to come true. Overall I thought it was a good book and I would recommend it to others.