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Brave New World
by: Aldous Huxley

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099518471
ISBN: 0099518473
Label: Vintage Classics
Manufacturer: Vintage Classics
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: December 06, 2007
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Studio: Vintage Classics
Sales Rank: 805

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- Prophetic?
Brave New World and 1984 are considered to be the two great prophetic works of the 20th century. Yet whereas 1984 depicts a stereotypical dystopia, Brave New World depicts a world where everyone is happy, everyone is beautiful, everyone can have whatever they want. As a work of prophecy I think Brave New World is far wittier than people give it credit.
In Brave New World people are created in factories where they are designed and conditions to fit neatly in society. This eliminates families which eliminates any associated problems. People are happy and beautiful, there is no hunger, no disease and no war, and in the rare occassion when something does go wrong they have soma, the perfect drug. Recreational sex is encouraged at all levels ... Read More:

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- Brave New World
I think the future Huxley creates in Brave New World is both imaginative and hugely dystopic, but in describing the mindless existence of the new world's inhabitants Huxley emphasises just how valuable such things as freedom of thought and expression, which we take for granted, really are. So although Huxley's material is dystopic, there is joy to be taken from the heightened sense of the individual, which the reader gains.

Stylistically, I think this book is fantastic. Yes, some will complain it lacks a certain degree of complexity, but if so they have unappreciated Huxley's precise and elegant prose. This is an important book, not to be under-estimated, and hugely prophetic considering how long ago it was written.

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- Out of the way...
I find with most 'classic' books, the hype is more than the substance and again Brave New World falls into that category.

It is quite an easy read - except the constant Shakespeare quotations towards the end, but it is a novel that I feel fails to take a great idea and develop it totally - the end is a big let down for instance.

I am glad that I read it to understand why it holds such attention after all these years but it isn't a book that I feel I could recommend.

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- A terrible dystopia or a beautiful utopia?
I read this book on the recommendation of a work colleague after reading George Orwell's 1984 and, whilst it is fairly entertaining, it just isn't in the same league as Orwells's masterpiece. It might be wrong to compare the two given that they are very different books, but it seems that some people will read one and then turn to the other, as I did, so a basic comparison seems fair.

1984 is a harsh, brutal novel that preys on our fears of the police state taking over without us even knowing it, something that many would argue is happening right now. The populace portrayed in the book know and understand that their situation is bad but have grown to accept it because they are told and so believe that it is ultimately for the betterment ... Read More:

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- Was and will make me ill...I take a gramme and just am
The ultimate dystopian fantasy, made even more eerie by it's remarkable prescience. The masses are kept enslaved by their own hedonistic impulses and the ubiquitous feel good drug soma. Huxley has seen the future and it's ghastly: a society of graded test tube people kept entertained by a virtual reality world i.e 'the feelies'(a kind of interactive movie), an intrusive and prurient media and Christianity forgotten 'because people wouldn't understand it'. Huxley sets his novel 600 years into the future but it's happening to us right now!

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