"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

[0007]

Any comments from past readers?

[drewb]

1. I liked it a lot.

Also liked 1984, Catch-22, The Handmaids Tale, and Slaughterhouse Five.

You can't read all those books and remain in the military which worked out well for me...

[onebigbadwulf]

2. animal farm is the best political commentary book.

Brave New World didn't do it for me.

[bryant69]

3. It's the one

I mean Animal Farm or 1984 or Z might be more openly scary and openly toltalitarian, but frankly none of that is all that likely. Brave New World is. I mean I don't know if it would be exactly the way the book says (it wouldn't of course), but a populous held passive by banal entertainments and mood altering substances? Does that remind anybody else of something?

Bryant
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[muriel_volestrangler]

4. and it poses a proper moral question

what is more important - security, health, and happiness; or freedom and equality of opportunity?

An excellent book, in my opinion - I read it in one sitting, till about 4 o'clock in the morning, when I was about 13.

[0007]

5. You were some young lady, I'd say.

"Brave New World" is an excellent piece of work as is "Animal Farm" -

Have you ever thought of reading the book again Muriel?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I'm not a lady

but I do play one on DU. ;)

I read it again about a year later in school, and have done so again since. What actually disappoints me is Huxley's foreword in my edition, in which he says he regrets not writing a 'sane' alternative to the Brave New World and the 'savage' reservation. I think slipping in a true utopia would have been a cop out.

[blindpig]

6. if you mix BNW with 1984..........

you get a close approximation of the present

[0007]

10. Could you give us your thoughts on this assumption?

[Catch22Dem]

7. Great book

My dad insisted I read it years ago. Was truly impressed at how much of a visionary Huxley was. I think someone here at DU used the handle "John the Savage" or something like that for a while. My dad wrote an album about the book. The music is all electronic and guitar. Very trancy. PM me if you'd like to hear some of it.

[0007]

11. ck. your pm box

[Corgigal]

9. Aldous Huxley

Did you ever see the photo of this guy? He just "looks" like the type of person who writes futurist books. I use to think Stephen King was scary looking.

Haven't read the whole book. So far so good , I just have to stop reading the 4 books at once thing and get this one done.

[bobthedrummer]

12. In terms of bio-engineering my homestate of Wisconsin

is world class.

And former Governor Tommy Thompson has many eugenics pals like Charles Murray.

They have patented life-forms here.

So we have cloning issue today.

It's a lot like "Brave New World" in some ways already the breakup of the nuclear family continues over 2 million in lock-up the Crusade continues...