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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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• ― Dave Sanders said on Feb 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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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

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.

Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.

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