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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: This is one of the greatest works ever written...it's the perfect companion to "1984," "Anthem," "F451," and other works but goes above them. "Brave New World" and "1984" together though are a powerful combination dealing with what's important for us today and in the future. Huxley was a brilliant writer and there are no words that can be said to express him, "Brave New World" or any of his other works.
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Summary: "The salt of recklessness that makes art sting"
Review: Those words were used to describe Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work THE SECOND SEX, and they describe BRAVE NEW WORLD perfectly. Heedlessly, fearlessly, Aldous Huxley extrapolated modern life's headlong rush into one giant corporate, conformist, consumerist Play-Doh blob, and wrote it up in a novel which has scarcely dated in decades. In fact, if anything, it seems far more relevant now than ever: Prozac, for some, is "soma" come early. But the book's strength lies beyond merely having handy parallels to modern-day manias -- it's also a biting and wide-ranging satire on what life SHOULD be like, as opposed to what like COULD be like. Funny, angry, and still dead-on -- the book isn't so much a prophecy of modern life as a preface to it. Many people have faulted the ending and the construction -- some characters are over-developed, others frankly discarded -- but the book's larger concerns survive such trauma handily. 1984 may be more ominously complete, and WE may be the best "novel" of the bunch, but BNW hits closest to home for most of us media addicts.
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Summary: This book is so real that you cry and cheer along with it!
Review: This book is one of the greatest books of all time. The predictions are so possible that it gives a chilling attitude toward the novel. I read this book for the tenth grade and it is now my favorite book!!
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Summary: It was worth it.
Review: I'm 16 years old Uruguayan student that happened to come across Brave New World not long ago. I must admit I had to read it a couple of times with a dictionary at my side as it is confussing sometimes... but anyway I'm glad I decieded to read it. This interesting world, not very far from ours is ruled by "soma-happiness", leaving feelings aside, playing to be God (or Ford as you wish) manipulating people's life before they are born, a life that Alpha, Beta, or whatever caste he/she results to be, should live happily. It gives us a glance of what a world like this might be. As far as I can tell this is a must read for everybody, specially if you like science-fiction.
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Summary: A stunning creation
Review: I thought The Triumph and the Glory was my epic reading experience of the summer, but a professor encourage me to read Brave New World and it blew me away! This book is so prophetic, it simply exudes wisdom and a chilling knowledge of human nature and the dark roads we can go down if we don't strive for higher ideals and recognize our common humanity.
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Summary: ENTER THE NIGHTMARE THAT IS REALITY.
Review: This book is a classic. Not because it is the best written book of all time, although being pretty good. It is the fightening parallel with our own world that is so scary. Aldous Huxley dreamt up the scariest vision of the future he could, satirizing the trends in people he saw. The result is so much frighteningly closer to our own world than to his. Huxley hardly missed anything. His is a world of constant noise. Life is filled up with meaningless entertainment and drugs that mean that people don't have to think about anything. Everyone assumes that their world is great. They are told so, and can't think differemtly. People now are more easily led than before. People sit and watch primetime TV, which is so very much mindless entertainment. "Things are better now..." This is a world of asthetic perfection. Huxley satirizes the cult of the youth and beauty by having everyone look beautiful. And no one visibly ages past about thirty. Look at the beauty industry. Look at the infomercials. Everything is geared to play on people's insecurity about their age. Women can't be a natural size without the media telling them they're fat by spreading size 0 models over everything we see. Huxley's world is one where everyone is born on a conveyor belt. Sex is only for pleasure, not reproduction. The use of artificial insemination and the rise in the use of contraceptives mirror Huxley's vision (not necessarily in a negative way, of course.) There are so many further parallels. Huxley's nightmare dytopia is not so far from our reality.
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Summary: Not all it's cracked up to be
Review: Brave New World has many thought-provoking ideas. To dream up an utopia in Huxley's time is genious, but the story is not. I read this story for eighth grade, and though it had some things that i'm sure no one had ever thought of before then, they have now. It's not good enough to have a good ides, you have to write well, too.
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Summary: Not Apocolyptic
Review: This was a very good book. I thought 1984 was a bit better, but the future Huxley presents is much more likeable. I don't know why people always say this book forcasts a bad future. I mean, if you're an Alpha or a Beta plus, life sounds really good. Read it. If you liked 1984, you'll like this. Thanks
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Summary: Overrated brother of '1984' and F 451
Review: Huxley's well-loved foray into cynical predictions about the future is a semi-enjoyable read that, while very good overall, remains very overrated. Huxley's tale lacks focus where focus is needed, and persists in dwelling on areas that it doesn't need to dwell on. Ultimately, you are left with a story that should have been compelling, but ends up being rather empty. Odd that today's high schoolers seem to prefer this over both '1984' and F 451, and this novel never reaches the stellar heights of those masterpieces.
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Summary: One Chapter of Greatness
Review: The books first chapter is an amazing and truely thought provoking on that all people should read and consider if we are in fact moving towards it. But from there on out it's pretty much crap. The story is uninteresting and seemingly pointless, containing far to many coincidental events.
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