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    <body><![CDATA[To this day, Aldous Huxley's &quot;Point Counter Point&quot; remains my favourite novel. The deepest corners of human nature -- that's where he goes, and that's where I haven't seen anyone else being able to.<br/>The novel doesn't have a front-to-back storyline, a precise plot, or a main character....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46940607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a very strange novel.  I'm not quite sure how to feel about how it ends.  It was very well written, and around page 300 in this version was an excellent tirade against modern society.  The problem I had with the ending is that it felt strained, rushed and sort of irrational.  <br/><br/>Maybe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56409870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly fantastic book. Read this in the buildup to university exams in between college books and other things I had to read for UNI. While my mind was focused on that, in the evenings and before bed, Huxley exercised the more important parts of my brain. I can't do the book justice on the grounds t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52936008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bad people doing bad things, but in a very witty way. That is a brief, if incomplete, summary of Aldous Huxley's novel, Point Counter Point.<br/>It is more broadly a &quot;novel of ideas&quot; with a novelist of ideas, Philip Quarles, at its center surrounded by friends and family whose lives are l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36182676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an interesting book.  I set out to read some of the books from the 'top 100 novels' list that I'd never heard of before, and this was one.  I'd read Huxley before (Brave New World) in High School and remembered liking it.  But this book was completely different.<br/>The book consists of depict...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29330472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The phrase &quot;novel of ideas&quot; is tossed around a lot when discussing Huxley's work, and I understand why. In Point Counter Point there is even a little meta-moment at the beginning of the novel when a character (a novelist himself) talks about creating characters that stand for certain princ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29319011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Huxley.  I've inferred that he is not exactly respected as a true literary figure, and perhaps this is because he is too many things, besides literary, at the same time.  I think of Huxley as having a very strong grasp on the whole spectrum of human experience and dissecting his perceptions o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4374761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I honestly could have given this anything from 2 to 5 stars, but the farther I get from finishing it the more comfortable i am with 5.  This is a very dry read, with almost no plot, but what it does well it does really really well (and what it does well, specifically I thought, was understanding and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38248110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Point Counter Point is a book that is better the more one knows about the era in which it was written.  There's a lot of in-jokes here, the difficult part being that the &quot;in&quot; was about 85 years ago.  Nevertheless, it's a good read as the characters are well drawn and their exploits are gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55426809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel published in 1928 is a story written by the early cynical Huxley rather than the mystical Huxley that appeared later to write such classics as ‘Eyeless in Gaza’ and ‘The Island’.  Huxley never really mastered cynicism though as its easy to like his characters and feel for them.   ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69330855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is philosophical propaganda. It was originally described to me as a symphony, with variations on a theme all playing simultaneously and ultimately coming together as a single work. Huxley speaks out strongly against all radicalism, whether religious or atheistic, Fascist or libertarian. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44448738">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had forgotten I had read this, actually. An odd novel with the story organized just as the title says. Hmmm. let me refresh my memory and get back to this review. Yes, I know that isn't very helpful right now but you will just have to wait!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant studies of relationships.  Reread 20+ years later....As good as ever.  Brilliant satire but with beckonings of Huxley's emerging interest int the spiritual/mystic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent roman of morals and nanners. Alodus Huxley's work based on originally produced structure with vivdly depicted characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this novel was far from my favorite genre, I enjoyed it. It was written in the 20's, but some of the ideas of the characters still really apply to today. There wasn't much for action. There was a lot of dialogue, and some really great quotes, however. &quot;Happiness is like coke- something...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3153142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best book I've read in a while. Although monotonous at times, still a great satire.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Point Counter Point (British Literature) by Aldous Huxley (1996)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[5 stars for the writing but I can't say it's an enjoyable read.  Huxley dissects every personality until they appear gruesome and every philosophy as false comfort and there's not much left in the end.  Grim but extraordinary.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[excellent prose, story line good, an entertainment...]]></body>
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