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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Start date: June 1, 2014

Finish date: June 30, 2014

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

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Dec 08, 2010 Chinook rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001, america, audiobook, europe, parenthood, 1-kindle, dystopia

I'm listening to Michael York read Brave New World. His accent makes it feel very dated, though the content is relevant to modern day.

Also, I remembered this read very poorly, though understandably so, I suppose because I must have been about 16-17 when I first read it.m

It's not, in my opinion, one of the better dystopias. Some of the predictions, especially of the science of the future, are quite dated - notably more so than 1984, it felt to me. The male-female relationships are just beyond fu ...more

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Jul 07, 2020 Elle rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic

One of the original dystopians, Brave New World starts off incredibly strong, with great world-building and creative construction. However, I think it suffers somewhat from the current existence of the wave of dystopian novels that came out at the beginning of the millennium. It would have hit a lot harder and been much more immersive had I read it prior to 2000.

The concepts are clearly visionary, given that the book was written in 1932, and there are many good and valid points made regarding hu ...more

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Jan 18, 2019 Tobey rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, popsugar-2019, 2019, bookopoly-2019

Considered a classic, is quite the book for when it was written. Some of the ideas and concepts flabbergasted me as I have always been about the works is so interesting because we are all so different and how boring it would be if we were all the same? This is just it in a nutshell but nevertheless, it kept me engaged and I give it 3 stars.

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Dec 17, 2013 Bouchra Rebiai rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-in-2014, 101-in-1001-days-2

After I enjoyed reading Nineteen Eighty-Four, I looked forward to all the other books that are frequently mentioned along with it. Brave New World was one of these books.

However, as I read it, I realized that it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. I liked the idea behind the novel - controlling central government, emotional engineering, etc - but I didn't like how it was presented.

In the synopsis here on Goodreads, Bernard Marx is mentioned, and you think he's the main character, until you ...more

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