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Summary: A book that everyone should read
Review: Huxley's Brave New World is one of those books that changes your outlook on the world, one of those books that makes you think for the rest of your life after you have read it. It questions the notion of utopia as a place of ubiquitous happiness, and suggests a higher meaning and purpose to life consisting of morals and beliefs rather than emotional and physical needs. This book is at once a little bit terrifying in its potential reality, pitting reason against belief and understanding of the true nature of things, but also hopeful in its indication that perhaps people are not totally incapable of reaching that higher state if they can only understand and accept that happiness is not necessarily all that it is made out to be. A thought-provoking book well worth reading.
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Summary: Hell of a book. But kind of obscure
Review: I enjoyed this book a lot. It was a good read. The idea of this world literary comes alive between the pages of this golden classic. The beggining is kind of mediocre but it just gets better and better. All the way till the end with a powerful ending leaving you quenching for more. It doesn't focus on one character but rather switches between the three of them. Aldous did a hell of a job writing this and I espesially love the describtion of all the processes. If you have three hours then spend them reading this book somewhere cozy:-)
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Summary: A book og then and now.
Review: Thi sbook was a little bit difficult to read in the beginning, but once you read it a couple of times, you get the point it is trying to make.
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Summary: Great book, but mediocre novel
Review: This book astounded me, for as I read it, I saw the culture of America that surrounds me to mimic this novel. Though the book, as a piece of literature, has much to be begged in the ways of plot development, character development, etc., the mere idea of the story, and its similarity to our culture have made this a classic for me.
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Summary: Fifth greatest novel of this century...?
Review: After reading "1984" twice, with great interest, I was enthusiastic about another wonderfully horrible anti-Utopian novel. But I was really disappointed with BNW, supposedly the fifth greatest modern novel. The science-talk was too bulky and lengthy and very little of it contributed to the story. The characters failed to capture my interest, leaving me totally apathetic toward them and their trials. Their catchphrases ("Oh, Ford!" and the many subconsciously-learned rhymes especially) were important to the characterizations but became very annoying after a while. At times the quality of the text dropped notably, well below anything I'd consider to be of any literary value. Often at these points the characters, events, and time periods involved became very difficult to discern. The plot was interesting but stretched to its absolute limits, laboriously squeezing every last drop out of the concept. Since this is required reading for high school seniors, I had no choice. Had free will been involved, I would have put this away after the first twenty-five pages or so. I don't understand why this work is acclaimed at all, never mind so highly. But this is of course only my opinion... please don't send me any hate-mail.
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Summary: The most important philosophical novel for our time
Review: I've read this book four or five times. It makes no particular predictions for the future; rather, it savagely satirizes its era and ours--the antithesis of the banal "1984". Those readers who dismiss "Brave New World" merely reveal the shallowness and mediocrity of their own thought and vision.
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Summary: Truly prophetic.
Review: Considering this book was written in 1932, Brave New World contains visions of the future that have alarmingly already come true. Huxley described a world where people are "born" in a science lab and predestined for a specific purpose; now, we can clone animals and allow parents to (with some accuracy) choose the sex of their child. Huxley accurately predicts the increase of recreational sex and drug use and the way society no longer "needs" God.Like Orwell's 1984, the prophetic vision of Brave New World transforms it from a good story to a great classic. It shows how a world overly devoted to stability can become a living hell. Like the savage in the story, we can learn to say, "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom..."
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Summary: This book is the story of life as we don't know it.
Review: This book can be related to today's society in many ways. If you don't know what is going on, read and learn. I am a young woman (17), and it tought me that I should always look for the truth. I can trully see our government manufacturing babies in the future. This book is real.
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Summary: not that great
Review: What's good about it is Huxley's vision - who cares if it's plausible or not so plausible, because it's interesting and vivid, and that's enough. If you want to evaluate the plausibility of it, fine, but the result has little bearing on the quality of the novel. That said, everything else about "Brave New World" is mediocre. The plot seems convinient (not to mention boring), and once a few chapters have passed, Huxley just ceases development of his vision to instead focus attention on characters - who end up being underdeveloped anyway. (If you haven't read it yet, I still suggest you read it, and judge for yourself. But I wouldn't buy it.)
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Summary: Brilliant but insidious
Review: Brave New World is one of the most insidious works of literature ever written. Huxley's classic has come to serve as the false symbol of any regime of universal happiness. The knee-jerk response of "It's Brave New World!" to any blueprint for chemically-driven well-being has delayed research into paradise-engineering for all sentient life.
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