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    <body><![CDATA[While I was reading this book I laughed and realized this is where DEVO got all their shit from. Huxley, back in the 1930's said (in this brilliant novel) that while we technologically advance we will behave more and more like crazed apes...&quot;The Truth Behind De-Evolution&quot;. I'm sure the Mot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14008077">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Aldous Huxley is somewhat of an acquired literary taste-- I never cared for &quot;Brave new World&quot; as much as many of my compatriots. But I felt I finally owed myself to read this after promising to do so for decades.  &quot;Ape and Essence&quot; has been called Huxley's re-thinking of &quot;Br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69503264">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent! The premise is that two film makers in a futuristic L.A. find a film manuscript titled Ape and Essence and go to the address listed looking for the author. Alas, the author has passed away so we move on to reading the manuscript. It is LA in 2108 in a post nuclear holocaust world. A group...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67344639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ape and Essence (Harper and Row, NYC, 1948)<br/><br/>I didn't even know that Aldous Huxley had written this. Found it on a 25 cent cart at the hospital while at work. As per Huxley it deals with utopian or not, approaches to futuristic concepts. Not really Sci-Fi but take a Brave New World, for in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51189738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a departure for Huxley- detractors need understand the desires/needs of a mind of his caliber to stave stagnation and venture from time to time.  pleasingly idiosyncratic, weighted with texture and gravity of subject.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book! So many reasons why, but the most obvious reason being the fact that it took place in a post-apocalyptic world where people were supressed and controlled by those in charge. I cannot even tell you how many times I have read books with the same theme and I am still enthralled every...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53226042">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[my mom had this book hanging around the house along with some Dostoevsky novels, some other existential garbage, and Doobie Brothers records, all presumably leftovers from college. never made it through the latter (except the Doobs), but i liked this one. started my fascination with LA dystopia.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have little to say about this book, Except that I loved the narration style (it is actually a book about a screenplay).  In that, it captures the spirit of hollywood dreaming.  I have reread this book a couple times because it is so good, and a one night read.  ]]></body>
    
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