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Wow, how does such a slim volume explore so many BIG issues, whilst also telling an interesting story?
Although published nearly 80 years ago (1932), it presciently exposes many issues that are problematic in our time: consumerism; the nature of happiness; what it means to be civilised; cloning and other reproductive technologies; parenting, families, loyalty, promiscuity; recreational drug use; social mobility and equality of opportunity; individualism versus group loyalty; pornography; benevole ...more
Although published nearly 80 years ago (1932), it presciently exposes many issues that are problematic in our time: consumerism; the nature of happiness; what it means to be civilised; cloning and other reproductive technologies; parenting, families, loyalty, promiscuity; recreational drug use; social mobility and equality of opportunity; individualism versus group loyalty; pornography; benevole ...more
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A grave, direct commentary on many things in society: leadership, interpretation, self government, class, human motivation, and more. Published in 1932, it says something about the changes that some thinkers of that time foresaw for their future. A must-read if you are studying the 20th century. but a season other than the holiday season might be a more choice time!
This is a novel that when reading it in 2012 strikes me as rather ridiculous. Debating w myself whether my initial stars ought to be revised...
Two months later: yup, downgraded from three to two stars, the book is just plain silly, and certainly so in comparison to 1984 which I recently also reread, and Swedish 1930s writer Karin Boye's dystopian Kallocain. ...more
Two months later: yup, downgraded from three to two stars, the book is just plain silly, and certainly so in comparison to 1984 which I recently also reread, and Swedish 1930s writer Karin Boye's dystopian Kallocain. ...more
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