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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Start date: June 1, 2017

Finish date: June 30, 2017

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: Revisit the Shelf Classic Reread, June 2017

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May 10, 2011 Andreea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-shelf-kindle, classics, dystopia-world, sff, reread, science-fiction-fun, speculative-fiction, book-club-b

How is this most more relevant now, in 2025, than it was the first time I read it more than a decade ago? This is terrifying! And that's also why I loved the book even more now - that, and the book club discussion.

It made me question a lot of things, but especially what is humanity and what is happiness and our relationship with art. It also made me sad because I realised more and more of us are moving away from art or don't have this innate need for art and I cannot explain it or understand it. ...more

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Aug 26, 2009 Tracy rated it liked it

Im torn between giving this 3 or 5 stars. This book was just plain weird, but after finishing it, and thinking about it, I can see the point the author was trying to make. In a futuristic world people have let go of God in change for entrepreneurship. There is no guilt, because everything, I mean everything is good and encouraged (sex is a very overriding subject in this book, while there isn't a sex scene in it). There is no sadness because everyone just takes their Soma or "anti-depressant" pi ...more

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