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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Nov 17, 2010 Stephen rated it liked it

Shelves: world-in-the-shitter, audiobook, classics, science-fiction

I need to parse my rating of this book into the good (or great), the bad and the very fugly because I thought aspects of it were inspired genius and parts of it were dreggy, boring and living near the border of awful. In the end, the wowness and importance of the novel's ideas as well as the segments that I thoroughly enjoyed carried the book to a strong 3.5 star rating.

THE REALLY GOOD/EXCELLENT - I loved the first third of the book in which the basic outline of the "Brave New World" and it ...more

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Apr 18, 2011 Stephen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, world-in-the-shitter, science-fiction

3.0 stars. I did a detailed review of the print version of this book that you can check out here:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

This review is simply for the unabridged audio read by Michael York. I thought the production value was fine and York's reading was pretty good. A solid job overall.
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Jan 13, 2014 Literary Multitudes rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, future, dystopia, society, 2014-reading-list

As with the other 4 or 5 times I read this: I like it. It's such an easy to get into world, this time for the first time I payed attention to the Shakespeare quotes and motifs and enjoyed it even more (and want to go read Shakespeare now,but I know I must watch Shakespeare, not read him...), so yeah, great book. And naturally: as red-hot as ever. Just ordered "Island", b/c I finally must read something else by Huxley ...more

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Sep 22, 2009 Frank Taranto rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, classic

Warning! This book will make you think. While we are not currently makng physical clones, many exremists are trying to make us mental clones - this book can show you a glimpse of how that society might turn out.

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