Ford and Freud… Machinery and sexuality… These cosmic signs rule the world… Consumers and conformists constitute an ideal society…Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black Semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances, or stood in queues to take their places in the monorail tram-cars. Mulberry-coloured Beta-Minuses came and went among the crowd. The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters.No more childbirths… Human beings are cloned in bat...

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” These are words uttered in the face of tyranny and complete oppression, though they are very rare words to be spoken or even thought of in this world because every human passion and sense of creativity is repressed and eradicated through a long and complex process of conditioning.And that’s what makes Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World* so powerful; it’s not unbelievab...

I first read Brave New World many years (decades) ago in high school, and I remember thinking it was really interesting at the time. Well, I must have been a doofus back then because this reread just didn't live up to expectations. To be honest, my impression now is that it's all a bit of a mess.First, who exactly are the main characters here? We start following a few people, but end up focusing on someone else entirely. None of the characters are particularly sympathetic, not even the supposedl...

I finally managed to finish the dystopian classics triangle – *1984*, *Fahrenheit 451*, and *Brave New World*. For me, the winner is *Brave New World*. Although I find the world Aldous Huxley imagined less realistic than the other two, it's equally tragic. This book definitely earned its place in the "best dystopian novels" lists you see online. I finally got that somewhat lost feeling of total happiness when reading a book, that tingle in the pleasure receptors when you find a great book. Even...

Wow, the *anger* over this rating! My first post for this book was a quote and a gif of Dean from *Supernatural* rolling his eyes and passing out. And people were **pissed**. How *dare* I?Lol. I'm honestly just so tired of all the dumb comments demanding that I (all caps) "ELABORATE". It's been going on for SIX YEARS now. So I will: *Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley is still one of the most boring, emotionless books I have ever read. It seemed like a natural choice after I loved Orwell and Atwo...

Warning! The following review contains humor. If you read it and actually think that I'm being critical of Aldous Huxley, try reading it again. (Here's a hint. Look for the irony of the italicized parts when compared to the previous statements.) If you post a comment that asserts that I'm wrong/ stupid/ crazy for this and/or try to lecture me on all the points you think I missed then I'm going to assume that you read it literally, missed the joke, didn't read the other comments where I've alread...

I need to parse my rating of this book into the good (or great), the bad and the very fugly because I thought aspects of it were inspired genius and parts of it were dreggy, boring and living near the border of awful. In the end, the wowness and importance of Aldous Huxley's novel's ideas as well as the segments that I thoroughly enjoyed carried *Brave New World* to a solid 3.5 star rating.THE REALLY GOOD/EXCELLENT - I loved the first third of *Brave New World* in which the basic outline of ...

Aldous Huxley wrote *Brave New World* in 1932. That's almost eighty years ago, but the book reads like it could have been written yesterday. (Especially interesting to me was how Huxley was able to predict the future of both genetic engineering *and* the action blockbuster. *Damn*.)I think I liked this one better than *1984*, the book traditionally considered to be its counterpart. Not really sure why this is, but it's probably because *Brave New World* has a clearer outsider character (the Sava...

This book presents a futuristic dystopia, but not the kind you might expect. Unlike Orwell's *1984*, Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World* paints a picture where everyone is, on the surface, happy. But their happiness is incredibly shallow. They live lives filled with simple pleasures, but devoid of science, art, philosophy, or religion. In essence, their lives lack any real depth or meaning. While people are expected to work hard and efficiently during their jobs, their free time is spent in an al...

Remember that last semester of English class, senior year, where every class felt painfully long and excruciatingly pointless? When everyone sat around secretly thinking of cute and witty things to put in other people's yearbooks? When the teachers realized we were already braindead from filling out three dozen student loan applications and college housing forms? That's when honors English started getting a little lazy. Not that I minded. Everybody got a book list. Then everybody got split up i...