Brave New World

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Summary: If you enjoy biting satire. . .
Review: I am delighted to have come across another satirical novel written in the same fashion, THE LAST DAY, by Glenn Kleier. In THE LAST DAY, Kleier tackles the subject of authority in organized religion with outrageous wit and irreverence. LAST DAY is a classic, watershed novel in the manner of BRAVE NEW WORLD. I found it a riveting read, and one that I greatly encourage all Huxley fans to experience

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Summary: This book will frighten you
Review: This book is brilliant, aweinspiring, frightening, chilling and depressive at the same time. Simply the best book I have ever read, if not for its prose, then for its message and content. Huxley predicted, over 60 years ago, the future we see in America today. Agreed, we are not quite there yet, but we are close. Frighteningly close. I would recommend everyone to read this book.

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Summary: A book for a rainy day
Review: This book is more the type to read when you just don't feel like doing anything and want to just sit down and read, because once you pick it up you can never put it down... It is one of the best books that I have read in my entire life even if I am at the tender age of 15... I recomend this to any student in high school or if you are going to be in any Analysis of Lit class in Fairbanks then I know you are going to want to pick this book for your parrallel reading novel... so if you just can't make up your mind just pick up Brave New World because it is an awsome book...

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Summary: A poor cousin to richer dystopias
Review: It might be easy to spot what aspects of our society Huxley is satirising, in his heavy-handed way, and take THEM seriously; but it's impossible to take Huxley's society seriously. He undercuts his own earnest world-building in order to get a cheap laugh. Worse, he leaves out crucial details which might give us some clue as to what's going on. That we aren't told whether or not Huxley's Brave New People are really happy, is fair enough. That we aren't even told enough to be able to deduce whether or not they are happy is inexcusable: it undercuts any possible moral Huxley may be trying to impart, and believe me, he's certainly trying to impart some moral or other. (He scarcely stops trying long enough to tell a story.) George Orwell was another left-wing British writer inspired by Yvgeny Zamyatin's "We", and his vision is vastly better - as is "We" itself.

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Summary: This book makes you think, and I like that!
Review: I really like this book because the message in hidden in the story. I've only read 1 chapter, but besides the bible, this is my favorite book!

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Summary: Give me Orwell any day.
Review: After checking out this book because I'd heard it compared on the same level as Orwell's 1984, Brave New World was a dreadful disappointment. Why people think it's so great, I'd really like to know. Maybe I missed something. But to me, it seemed like a great premise that never went anywhere. It completely fizzled and died about 2/3 of the way through. Huxley couldn't decide what storyline he wanted to use, and finally picked the silliest, most childish one. He also had trouble figuring out which of his characters was the protagonist. First it was Lenina, then it was her lover (I forget his name), then it was the "savage", and so forth. So, yes, Huxley and Orwell have written books with similar ideas. The only difference between the two is that Orwell carries off his storyline in a mature and captivating manner, like a true writer.

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Summary: riveting aldous rocks the literalworld withitschilling futur
Review: great like a cold coke and whiskey early on christmas morning. like the future it is numbing to drink and do but endless giult is born the man of science

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Summary: a revolutionary book that peeks into societies future!
Review: This book explores the future and what "utopia" should be. It gives a peek into where humanity will go wrong and gives mindblowing descriptions about what society will be like. A great storyline and plot that can be hard to follow at times but a very entertaining and exciting work overall!!

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Summary: Best Book Ever!
Review: It is completely effective, despite the fact that there are about 3 million copies of it. The last lines chilled me. READ it now! Oh, and to the people who said we are TURNING into brave new world; there have always been extreme social classes- why don't we focus on out-of-control technology instead? Hope no one saw that NBC tv-movie about this book. It was so commercialized and had so little to do with what the book is about, it was painful to watch. Buy the real thing! If you are literate and are somewhat intelligent, you should love it!

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Summary: Disturbing and Thought-provoking
Review: This is an amazing novel, and it's implications cannot be dismissed. I found it amusing how people disliked the novel for a lack a character development and other irrelevant aspects of the novel that, obviously, Huxley did not care about. The fact that people are degraded solely to acquiring pleasure is a powerful argument on Huxley's behalf. Chapter 17 is definitely the best chapter of the book. On a separate note, I want to praise Huxley for I think he is underappreciated to a sickening degree. In my opinion, he wrote the runner-up for the most underrated novel of the 20th century ("Point Counter Point"). Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" is the undisputed winner for that award, however. Read all of Huxley's material though. He's a gift.