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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Start date: September 19, 2015

Finish date: September 17, 2015

Why we're reading this: Dystopian, satire, science fiction, set in Europe
[close] Dystopian, satire, science fiction, set in Europe

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Aug 20, 2007 Tori rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novel, all-time-favorites, classics, read-in-high-school, read-in-my-20s, dystopian, changed-my-life, 1read-in-my-40s, read-in-2014

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From the Forward to a 1946 version:
If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative. Between the utopian and the primitive horns of his dilemma would lie the possibility of sanity - a possibility already actualized, to some extend, in a community of exiles and refugees from the Brave New World, living within the borders of the Reservation. In this community economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque c ...more

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Aug 14, 2007 J.D. rated it it was ok

I just don't get it! I'm supposed to love this, right?

Then why am I not able to make sense of what seems to be this huge jumbled mess?

Now I will freely admit that I'm not much a fan of science fiction, so I may lack the creativity/willful suspension of disbelief to really enjoy and sink my teeth into a book like this. I did, however, enjoy very much 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 which often seems to get lumped together with this book, so what did this lack?

I believe the hardest part in this was that ...more

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