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Title: Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0-06-090101-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 July, 1942 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book.
Comment: Brave New World is an awesome book. Not only did it inspire me to begin work on my own, it expanded my thought processes to include the horror of the science that I love so much. Brave New World Revisited is the author's summary notes and explanations for his writing. I am still in the process of reading it, and have found it very interesting. However, he does contradict himself very much within the book. I highly recommend both of these books.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gramme is better than a damn, Aldous
Comment: It's not as pessimistic as "1984" nor as cleverly metaphorical as "Animal Farm", but I hold both "Brave New World" and its cousin, the non-fiction analysis of Huxley's text ("Brave New World Revisited") higher in my esteem than either.
Huxley himself was a brilliant man (what else can u expect, descending from Darwin's Bulldog himself?), and BNW is a brilliant novel. It's my favourite kind of book, just bursting at the seams with ideas and thoughts and theories, and told craftily through the eyes of a cast of intriguing characters.
Because, aside from being a brilliant novel, such fantastic three-dimensional creations as Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, Lenina Crowne and John the Savage will win you over forever. That's what makes this prophetic combination of BNW and BNWR so effective; the first shows you a startling vision of the future, and how it affects a wonderful cast you'll come to love; the second is a thought-provoking analysis written some years later, considering just how far the world has progressed towards achieving that 'utopia'. All kids should read this book at some stage. After all, we're the future (apparently), and this is a memorable example of what we do NOT want it to become.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Dictatorial Happiness
Comment: I would like to keep this short. We all know what the book is about: the bankruptcy of the individual. It's just that most people seem to miss a point: the society depicted in this book is obsessed with being happy and banning every form of discomfort out of their lives. Now there are certain people in this novel who rise up against this society but, I think, their motives are misunderstood: most people seem to think these dissenters are fighting for the right to be free so they can be happy in their own individual way. Actually they are fighting for the right to be unhappy, to suffer. For the greatest freedom you can enjoy as an individual is the right to be your miserable self.
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Title: 1984 by George Orwell, Erich Fromm ISBN: 0451524934 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Island by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060085495 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Animal Farm by George Orwell, C. M. Woodhouse, Russell Baker ISBN: 0451526341 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060900075 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 February, 1963 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Huxley's Brave New World (Cliffs Notes) ISBN: 0764585835 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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