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  • Mediocre New World

  • Huxley's characters fail completely to get the reader involved in their well-being. Huxley's scientific references are too dated; e.g., the belt moving at 33-1/3 feet per minute, the private helicopters, etc.

    I discussed this book with a colleague who is an English professor, and I asked him ... Continue

    Huxley's characters fail completely to get the reader involved in their well-being. Huxley's scientific references are too dated; e.g., the belt moving at 33-1/3 feet per minute, the private helicopters, etc.

    I discussed this book with a colleague who is an English professor, and I asked him what I missed while reading this book. It is considered a modern classic, so I thought that I must have missed things which make this a wonderful book. He agreed with me that, while a few references were clever, the book is not worth reading.

    I am happy to have read it only so that I can say that I have indeed read it if a discussion begins at a party.

    

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  • I was actually hoping for something a little better. I read this thinking it would be as good as 1984, but it just wasn't so. Maybe my expectations were set to high.

    

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  • xvii, 270 p. ; 21 cm.1st Perennial Classics ed.

    

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• ― Brian Hamilton said on May 7, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Marking the 75th anniversary of its original publication, Vintage Canada is proud to publish the first Canadian edition ever of the 1932 classic Brave New World with an original introduction by Margaret Atwood.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasure of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.… Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

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