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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

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

The nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

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