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The revelation of Huxley's world, how it is created and how it functions leads to powerful messages about the purpose of humanity, the pursuit of happiness, the role of suffering and the need for individual human dignity and freedom.

It also illustrates Huxley's theory that the masses are more easily mollified by the power of pleasure than the threat of force. Huxley wrote, in a letter to George Orwell dated 21 October, 1949 about the differences between "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four": "Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."]]> 5129 150 3204877 book 1932 Brave New World total:117602|5:37026|4:42513|3:27372|2:7493|1:3202| 117602 455471 148614 3345 3487 3.87 129404 4445 16712299 257424 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 113540 1932 0 41 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Feb 29 12:51:21 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 13:22:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2710012 146323 33996 0586044345 9780586044346 36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233949612m/33996.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233949612s/33996.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33996.Brave_New_World 3.90 315 1932 5 13 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Wed Jul 04 10:28:36 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 23:37:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 21685007 922837 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 5 11 false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 01:26:11 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 07 00:33:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14963497 130981 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 5 5 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 22:24:26 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:11:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 718810 59506 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 0 5 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Apr 14 09:55:33 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:58:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 20416465 1092129 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 2 5 false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 17:08:39 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 18:40:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 10913282 710201 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 5 6 false Sun Dec 23 09:05:06 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 05:57:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 58901 6242 415342 0060809833 9780060809836 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174537565m/415342.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174537565s/415342.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415342.Brave_New_World 3.93 764 1932 4 4 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 19 18:34:36 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 16 16:02:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 25821582 1159787 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 4 6 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975 Sun Jun 29 09:04:36 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 18:00:06 -0700 2008 3 15678456 917604 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 2 5 false Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 04:22:17 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 05:41:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3989396 248780 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 4 3 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 15:56:54 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:28:16 -0800 2009
I'm finding myself drawn to dystopian novels lately. Not really sure why. I think it's partly because Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale had such an effect on me when I was in college, and I'm constantly looking for something that disquiets my ...more...]]> 39850839 1713956 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 4 3 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974 Thu Dec 11 04:01:13 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 22 17:18:43 -0800 2009 Les Particules Elémentaires, which I just finished. One of the characters argues that Huxley originally intended his world as a utopia rather than a dystopia, and then changed his mind and tried to convince everyone it was meant iron...more...]]> 37195396 1662632 415342 0060809833 9780060809836 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174537565m/415342.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174537565s/415342.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415342.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 5 2 false Sat Nov 08 12:46:47 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 03 18:03:16 -0700 2009 Do you need to re-read this, as I do? It has been too many years and I'm sure I'll respond differently than previously. Especially after listening to the excellent In Our Time podcast discussing the book. (Available on the BBC website here, but unfortunately only in a streaming format, not downloada...more...]]> 22407996 549698 1002404 0140010521 9780140010527 32 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225668435m/1002404.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225668435s/1002404.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1002404.Brave_New_World 3.79 218
The revelation of Huxley's world, how it is created and how it functions leads to powerful messages about the purpose of humanity, the pursuit of happiness, the role of suffering and the need for individual human dignity and freedom.

It also illustrates Huxley's theory that the masses are more easily mollified by the power of pleasure than the threat of force. Huxley wrote, in a letter to George Orwell dated 21 October, 1949 about the differences between "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four": "Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."]]> 1932 4 2 true Fri May 16 20:08:16 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 02:35:50 -0700 2008 Product of its times: initial protagonist is "Bernard Marx" (though he turns out not to be the "hero"); the action takes place in...more...]]> 16714138 955770 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 4 2 true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 29 13:14:11 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 13:14:11 -0800 2008 Summary:
Brave New World is set in a futuristic Utopian society. The people in this world are ensured contentment through an intricate combination of biological conditioning, years of brainwashing, free love, and a drug called soma that has no side effects. Families have been eliminated and...more...]]> 2853286 169571 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 2 2 false Mon Jul 09 00:59:49 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:00:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1269615 84405 5129 0060929871 9780060929879 2898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734m/5129.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517734s/5129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 4 2 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 07:56:44 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 08:19:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2202617 142047 415342 0060809833 9780060809836 84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174537565m/415342.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174537565s/415342.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415342.Brave_New_World 3.87 117602 1932 4 2 false Thu Jun 21 06:49:27 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 11:45:56 -0700 2007 The language is incredible, the ingenuity, creativity and philosophy are tremendous. I read in just a few days, didn't want to put it down.

But in the end: The flocking and making of the feely of Savage didn't seem...more...]]> 2837201 65538 5485 0060850523 9780060850524 138 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522435m/5485.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522435s/5485.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5485.Brave_New_World_P_S_ 3.89 1234 Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

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