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May 07, 2011
Ash
marked it as dnf
Will be reading again.
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May 07, 2011:
I'm 28% done with Brave New World: I am so not impressed with this book. It is completely unbelievable. I mean, such a world can never exist. People brainwashing others so happily, when they already know that they were brainwashed in the first place. Absurd!
Abandoning it for the time being.
"Every one belongs to every one else" - nonsense! And the descriptions are so horrific that I dont feel like continuing.
It is no way comparable to 1984. 1984 ...more
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May 07, 2011:
I'm 28% done with Brave New World: I am so not impressed with this book. It is completely unbelievable. I mean, such a world can never exist. People brainwashing others so happily, when they already know that they were brainwashed in the first place. Absurd!
Abandoning it for the time being.
"Every one belongs to every one else" - nonsense! And the descriptions are so horrific that I dont feel like continuing.
It is no way comparable to 1984. 1984 ...more
The dangers of an all powerful state: Community, Identity, Stability
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. The title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:[4]
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206
Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), ...more
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. The title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:[4]
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206
Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), ...more
Idk, it seems to me that the author was a bit obsessive over the breaking down of the traditional western gender & social norms in which everyone knows his or her place.
Dec 30, 2010
Jim Black
marked it as to-read
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Марко
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Dec 03, 2013
Aaron Johansen
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Feb 08, 2014
Chris Massey
marked it as to-read
