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Brave New World
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Start date
September 19, 2015
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September 17, 2015
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Dystopian, satire, science fiction, set in Europe

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Leslie Jones
Oct 28, 2007 rated it it was amazing
I read this book again last spring when one of my Academic Decathalon students asked me about it. It's got to be on my "10 best books of all-time" list. I read it for the first time in the 8th grade and was so in awe that my perception of society could be challenged and shaken. From Huxley's simple, stark, and bold language, this book grabs your attention and sucks you into a world of government conspiracy, drug-laden inability to think for yourself, and gives you a glimpse of what the real futu ...more
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Aug 26, 2008 rated it liked it
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An interesting exploration of what's really important to us a society - from the basic relationships between a mother and a child to the right to be sad. The question becomes what are you willing to sacrifice to live in a "perfect" world. ...more
Michelle Marie
had to write a compare and contrast paper about this with 1984...never finished but the wrote paper anyway..did i say never finished? I meant hardly read more than a chapter!
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