Brave New World

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Summary: Passionate and powerfully predictive.......
Review: Sci-fiction has a habit of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The book will make you wonder and hope it doesn't happen.

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Summary: Best book ever written!
Review: Just as simple as it sounds. The best book I've ever read, and it would be very difficult to beat. Sincerely, the best of all times!

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Summary: I will read it again and again!
Review: This book was one of the best that I have ever read. Huxley does a great job of posing the possibility of such a world actually existing. He also brings to mind thoughts of whether or not some of the issues that are addressed are ethical to the reader. A great book to read for a discussion group.

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Summary: Not a great sci-fi book
Review: This science fiction novel seemed to lack the credibility of many other sci-fi books around now. Huxley's incredibly boring and unrelatable characters gave me the urge to yell "STOP WHINGING!"

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Summary: One of the Best Books I've read!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, especially since I had to read it for OAC English. It showed how bad genetic engineering could be, but it showed a few positive aspects about it too.

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Summary: Revolutionary, influential, frieghtening.
Review: Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" is an earth-shattering, dynamic, and sometimes genuinely frightening account of evils of a society much closer than we realize. His foreknowledge of modern society appears prophetic, and between the shockingly horrifying depictations of this Socialist commmunity, humor is detectable. Additionally, the element of confusion added rather than detracted from the book. If one pushes through the first 15 pages, it is impossible to set down.

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Summary: A scarry look into the future
Review: I thought Brave New World was a very well written book. Huxely gives us a view of the world in the distant future, this world is corrupt and without values. I think that Huxely makes a good point about society and technology. We see a world where technology has made people emotionles and unable to think for themselves. This is a very relevant topic. Although the book was written in the 1930's is is acurate to the trouble we as a society face in this day and age. We are often hurt by the technological and scientific advances that are, simultaneoulsy making us happier and healthier.

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Summary: Brave New World vividly illustrates the horror of a Utopia.
Review: Huxley's Brave New World offers an unequivocal view of the horror of a Utopian Paradise. With the depiction of a civilized society as one without free will, Huxley shows the reader that any paradise is by definition void of free will. If one does not allow themselves the freedom of truth and knowledge, there cannot be a true paradise.With the use of a 'savage' to illustrate the difference between civilization and freedom, Huxley shows the reader that progress and civilization are not necessarily the goals of a good society. Huxley's use of scientific terminology and a bureacratic government very reminiscent of our own, lends credence to the story as well as to his vision of a dangerous Utopia taking our society and our will.

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Summary: Revealing
Review: Aldous Huxley's work in Brave New World is really earth-shaking, I believe. No one has more acutely stated the problems of today's society than Huxley, and the scary part about it, is that he did it 60 years ago. In my day to day life I see unsettling ghosts of the brave new world as it approaches. Think about it, with cloning now, genetic engineering, and our ever increasing consumption of drugs. It won't be long before we're popping soma and conditioning artificial children. Truly a mind-expanding read. I would recommend it to anyone that has ever been angry with society.

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Summary: message too obvious
Review: Although not set in our time context, I find the message in this story keeps slapping you in the face until you get tired of it. It is well written, but a little subtelty would allow a more complex story line where you didn't have to hand the reader a moral-on-a-platter.