Brave New World

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Summary: shocking to see how our future MIGHT be!
Review: While reading this, I had a feeling somewhat like the one I had while reading 'the tripods trilogy' when I was a little younger.

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Summary: Is it fiction? Look around. Are we in Huxley's world today?
Review: Reading this text for a Science and America in the 20th century course in college, I am struck with the similarities between Huxley's fiction and present-day Earth. I constantly reminded myself that the work is indeed fiction. The book raises a gamet of questions regarding ethics in medicine, love, and society in general. It is quite a controversial text great for discussion, yet evokes feelings of violation, vunerability, and fear. One should be thankful the work remains in the fiction stacks at local bookstores and libraries worldwide.

Shocking and Exquisitly written with great detail.

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Summary: By far the best book I have ever come near!
Review: If I could give 6 stars in this review I truly would. I am a senior in high school and I found the first chapter a little hard to follow because I didn't understand what the book was about. After reading about 2 more chapters...I was hooked! I began to fully appreciate the value of this classic. Aldous Huxley has been engraved in my mind as one of the best writers of all time. I would recommend this book to everyone but I must say that I don't think that it is an easy book to read. So, go for it! You'll enjoy it but have patience at first. When you get into it you wont be able to put it down.

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Summary: A frighteningly real possiblility of the future
Review: Huxley's work portray's a future in which both love and neglect go hand-in-hand. Where to succeed you must enjoy soma, and well, other things almost constantly. A must read for those who enjoy alternate futures, science-fiction, sociology, or romance. May the Ford be with you.

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Summary: A Visionary Work
Review: This book needs to be read by more people. It is, quite simply, one of the great works. A world where foetus's are manipualted to produce certain 'types' of citizens is chilling. And the society itself is frightening. And yet... it works. When one steps back, the true horror of this book is not (to me) that it resembles our own society in so many ways, but that it works, and that everyone is happy. Genuinely happy.

Perhaps this is what utopia is... and we can only pray it never happens.

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Summary: Brave Classic Story!
Review: I love when an author takes a serious look at the current day and can express their thoughts to future events! Huxley is a master touching on topics very much in today's society. Cloning people - Oh, Ford!

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Summary: The original anti-eutopia.
Review: This is Huxley's masterpiece--the original anti-eutopia of Western literature, and the best. Setting the anti-technology standard carried through by cumming's poetry and Orwell's prose a half-generation later, Huxley adopts a sensationalist, slightly racy stance toward his subject matter: technology vis-a-vis power. True to his cinematographic experience (Huxley later turned to film writing), this book is part tabloid, part far-fetched sci-fi, and all fun. It's a literary masterpiece to boot, with substance to back up the style. A must read! Buy it today!

--Justin Laird Weaver

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Summary: A Gripping Question That Remains Relevant...
Review: Is it still a dystopia if everyone likes it?

I see that a few people could not quite grasp the concept, claiming a poor story and weak attempts at grasping interest. These are exaggerations. While this is no Jurassic Park or other thrilling novel, this cautionary tale is still fascinating.

However, you must try to understand it. It's not an extremely highbrow novel, but it's still a moral story that must be viewed in depth.

This book is the polar opposite of 1984, and so, it is just as important to have on your shelf. While Orwell's later rendition of a dark society showed utter peril and the crushing weight of a socialism gone wrong, Huxley displayed amazing creativity(Not to speak ill of Orwell's skill, of course) and chose the reverse--not the classic totalitarianism, which all know is a threat, but the world of enticement and temptation, into which victims come of their own free will as opposed to being brutalized.

This is always a possibility. And when the time comes, will we be children and live with ultimate physical pleasure and satisfaction, or will we live the lives that leave our souls satisfied?

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Summary: Brave New World: A Classic
Review: This book is more than just a book, it is a classic. In under three hundred pages, readers find themseves disgusted and intrigued. This intense book provokes an unexplored question: What is more important Happiness or Freedom? You choose. A world with "conditioned" people; humans that are hypnotized to believe they are happy. With not a worry, no parents or babies (you were born out of a bottle), no resumees (you already have a job according to your caste) and no marriage (you can never fall in love). Nothing to complain about. If they do, a little Soma does the trick. Takes them to cloud nine. But things aren't as simple as they seem....a little visit from the savage John, an unconditioned man, changes the lives of three human robots living in this dystopia. But in the end, it changes his own life. He finds the truth within himself and for the world around him. He discovers this Brave New World.

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Summary: Look beneath the surface.
Review: This remarkable book is NOT, as certain misguided political pundits would have you believe, a warning about the inherant dangers of cloning or other future scientific advances. Instead it is a condemnation of the sacrifice of individual freedom and identity that had already begun in Huxley's time. The genetic manipulation angle merely serves as a framework for the much more insidious cultural indoctrination and consumerism prevelant in modern Western society.