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Summary: A futuristic description of the present
Review: This is a truly prophetic book. Not only does Huxley describe the drug problem present in our own society(soma), but he also talks about test tube babies,fertility treatments,genetic tampering et al. It`s almost as if the author built a time machine and went to our present.Forget what they say about Brave New World being a vision of the future. It is really a vision of our present.Having said that, I also consider Huxley`s caste system to be the next development in our society.
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Summary: not bad
Review: I just finished reading Brave New World for my English class and I must say the premise itself was intriguing. A society were the words mother and father are viewed a smut, and drugs are taken as an excuse to avoid feelings drew me in. But what I found really didn't interest me. The book felt a little too rushed and needed to be drawn out more. The last few pages were good, but they didn't conclude the book enough for me. The conversation between Mustapha Mond and John was wonderfully insightful, explaining the reasons behind the brave new world, but the relationship ended there. Overall a great idea in a decent book.
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Summary: Excellent book, he wrote 20 years ago what's happening now
Review: Aldou huxley was a remarkable writer. And perhaps this book, was his great novel. Like Burgges with the An Clockwork Orange, he became a Science Fiction writer, he create an atmospehere, that now almost 20 years later, we can be in to. The artificial kids, the regulation of the birth. And us who we gonna become the wilds. The conversation between the General of the world and the wild, with the explanation of the reasons why the start to control birth, it's for me one of the greatest lines in modern literature. He, somehow knew the way story will go, and he wasn't wrong. Sometimes i think we all must give an apologize to Huxley.
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Summary: 1984? I don't think so. Brave New World is weak.
Review: I read Brave New World because I really liked 1984 and some people recommended it as similar. I really have to dissagree. Whereas 1984 had a plot, characters and a point Brave New World had none. It is basically a description of a futuristic world with this bit thrown in about The Savage. The Savage is a strange combination that Heller made up of religion, primative life, and something like voodoo. Not a very impressive book.
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Summary: This was my all time favoirte book.
Review: This was the best sci-fi book I have ever read. I suggest it to anyone who loves science fiction novels.
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Summary: Good Message, Bad Writer
Review: I'm reading "Brave New World" for my Freshman Social Studies class. We read "1984," then "Animal Farm" both by George Orwell. I wish I had read this book first, then maybe I'd have thought better of it. Compaired to George Orwell, Aldous Huzley can't write. I've got about 30 pages left and I'm on-line trying to find an easy was to write my paper that's due Monday. I can't sit still, concentrate, and keep awake long enough to finish the book. It's got a great message, and to some Aldous Huxley might be concidered a genious. But I've read better books.
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Summary: Scared the s__t out of me
Review: Your worst nightmare.
Look into the eyes of a gridlocked friend.
Do you need soma (sic)?
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Summary: WOW.
Review: Brave New World is, if not my very favorite book, is probably within the top three. I learn or notice or glean something new from it every single time I read it, and at this point I've read it maybe a dozen times. I also connect things in it to other literature, and the way it connects with Fathers and Sons, a tedious Russian novel, really helped me survive the reading of F & S. (For those of you who have read both and want to know what the connection is, get this: the society in Brave New World, as material and self-serving as it may be, is nihilist, just like Bazarov. Think about it. If you want to discuss, email me.)
This book could not be better in any way. Readable and frightening.
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Summary: saving our self may be saving Ourselves
Review: Most reviews of this work center around the apparent accuracy of the predictions, and their effect on society.<BP> I wondered about that as a teenager, but now, my sense of "me" is coming more into question as I read the book over and over <BP> Unfortunately, I believe that the issue for us as a sociey is that there is so much technology archiving so much knowledge AND experiences of all kinds, that it is becoming almost impossible to actually HAVE and individual life (or at least the "feeling" of a unique existenace. <BP> John Savage's ultimate conflict arose out of his inability to adapt to the new bio-social order.<BP> OUR greatest dilemma may arise when we wake up as John Savage, only to discover that society has seen or been made aware of three or four previous "John Savages", thus everyone knows how we will act, react and ultimately die. THAT is a meaningless life. To exist only as a parallel perception to a previous person in the mind of all you meet - so that - try as you might, you may NEVER be able to develop your "self". This proliferation of technology is wonderful for expanding the mind, until we all become one mind. THAT will be how we lose our identity. And when that day comes, may God have mercy on our souls
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Summary: A NOT so 'Brave New World'
Review: YESTERDAY afternoon I opened the door of this 'Brave New World' to take a look around. I never left the book until very early this morning, and even then I could not sleep. Why? This book opened a new realm of possibilities and issues that I could not let rest. They occupied my mind, and even now, a day since I read this book, are lurking still.
When presented with a book about the future one tends to believe that the book will dissect the technology that would be available then. This formula makes for unexciting reading. However Huxley, in this book, does not dissect the future in this way, but rather in the little ways. The little relationships between 'normal' people, just like us.
All in all the book is mostly about the effects of the pasts choices on the future. The past chose machinery over god, chose Hollywood style films over Shakespeare, chose drugs over thinking with full control of mind, and chose relationships which don't deserve the title and progress over a loving family. <b>
The frightening things are that it seems that the present can be found in this book in between the two, leaning more and more towards the ironical new world.
I shall try not to ruin this book for you. This book exposes the journey we have to take, the choices we have to make. The miracle of the matter is that this book relates to use today more then Huxly's time. How could he know?<b>
I'm not sure I understand yet. I'll let you try to figure it out for yourself.
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