Brave New World

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Summary: Interesting perception of the future
Review: I found this book to be quite an interesting read. I find it kind of scary that someday our world could actually come to this. Living in a world where you could not think for yourself, feel any emotion, and were conditioned at birth to do one specific job is not my idea of fun. I found a few sections of the book hard to follow at times, but overall I really enjoyed this book.

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Summary: Odd Book
Review: I thought that Brave New World was a strange novel. I think that the style of writing is different but the main idea behind the book was intersting. I think we are in between both our world and the new world. This book was definitley weird but interesting.

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Summary: The book brings out the best quality of being human
Review: David Keller I believe that "Brave New World" should be read by all people who feel that life is nothing more than play. To me, the author brings out a whole new perspective in life. Many people take the ability to think and reason for granite. If the right to think was one day taken from them, they would feel sorrow and pity for never using it. I asked a lot of my friends if they would rather lay around and drink soma while having erotic sex or if they would rather read literature and have a piece of mind to themselves. More than half of the people would rather drink soma. What has happened to the world? Have we invented to many easy ways to slack off. Have we made the brain a non-functioning machine? Maybe it is not the kids fault. Maybe it is the adults that have pushed so hard for progression that it is pulling a reversal and regressing the next generation. Huxley writes very clearly and makes known what he means. He is a very good writer and should continue an episode of "Brave New World". Huxley was not that far off in predicting what the future will be like seeing that he was 50 years in the past. It took a lot of time to animate such a utopia into a living and breathing thing. I give him much props and hope that he keeps up the good work

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Summary: Interesting, But Not Very Relevant
Review: I am a reader of non-fiction, and I guess I never really learned to appreciate works of fiction. I have a hard time applying their relevance to the real world. Every now and then, I attempt to read an "acclaimed" piece of fiction, and the results are usually the same: I feel like I've missed something. I prefer to learn about and ponder the "horrors" of today's reality by reading history and current events. I find there is more history that I don't know but need to. Reality is far more bizarre than anything that Huxley or Orwell can dream up. By the way, I prefer Orwell's work to Huxley's. I found this work to be very light reading and somewhat entertaining.

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Summary: Ending is better than mending...
Review: I thought this was a pretty good book, and would redcommend it, but there wasn't really that much of a plot. A gripping and frightening view of the popssible future of mankind, although not that likely.

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Summary: Worthy of title "Classic"
Review: I didn't read this book back in high school, so I decided to read it now. I can see why it is such a popular book by English Teachers. The scary part is that is not that far from the truth. With enough mix of dictatorship and genetic technology, and we're already half way there. The use of drugs to take us on "vacations" is already here in the form of Valium, Prozac, Ridilin, et al. For those that skipped this book in school, try it for fun. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Ford and fliver!
Review: one of 3 major negitive-utopias i`ve read. this one tells of the dangers of cloning and the possibilities that could happen if we let some obssesive power freak take control of the ability to clone people. I`ve noticed that Televison is alot like conditioning. it repeats untill it sticks in your mind. (shows you the power of suggjestion!)

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Summary: An untimely science fiction, a philosophical reflection
Review: The biggest difficulty in reading "Brave New World" is to understand that it doesn't refer to the future, the past or the present. It refers to the reality of human beings and to the reflections about it. A good advice for those who want to start it is to read The Republic by Plato before it, and to be surprised, after finishing it, by the large number of points they have in common, and that "Brave New World" is not just a Science Fiction Novel (poor is the man who is blind to his own senses). The sacredness of "Brave New World" is to show humanity that all the solutions and salvations we are looking for in technology are completely useless if we can't distinguish between our problems and our blessings.

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Summary: the future is here
Review: Sex and no love, babies and no sex, prozac and no emotions. Human cloning is the only missing ingredient to the fulfillment of Huxley's stunning prophecy - and even that's just up the road a stretch. Frighteningly accurate. Downright eery considering it was written in 1932. This was the first book that made me realize anything is possible in the pages of a book. It went on to prove that man truly is limited only by imagination - and even Huxley's wildest imagination may be surpassed by reality long before even one century has elapsed. Chalk one up for "Life imitates art." Bravo Aldous.

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Summary: One of the top contemporary books ever written
Review: Huxley's novel has an enormous impact on the public because of his technological "prophecies". However, I found more interesting the trend of our society towards the social role described on Brave New World: no liberty, no spirituality, hedonism, etc. This classic is a must.