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07-20-2008, 04:09 AM
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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
What do you think of this book?
I don't mind it. Simply.
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07-23-2008, 09:51 PM
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it was an awesome read, and way ahead of its time. more importantly....it was an awesome read.
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07-24-2008, 08:07 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lacrymosa
What do you think of this book?
I don't mind it. Simply.
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Is that it? What exactly was the point of posting? Will you be starting other threads (duplicating others that have already been done) of all the books you don't have an opinion about? |
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08-13-2008, 05:27 PM
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Very depressing, I preferred Island, the same sort of bastards came out on top at the end but at least you felt the good guys had had an innings.
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08-20-2008, 06:27 AM
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Has anyone read Huxley's The Doors of Perception or Heaven and Hell? I just discovered them yesterday while looking for some related stuff on Amazon. He apparently provides a pretty decent argument for the 'spiritual use' of LSD. The synopsis caught my interest, so I'll probably check it out.
I'm not too crazy about Brave New World, although I respect it. I prefer 1984.
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08-20-2008, 08:03 AM
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I thought this book was very good. I really enjoyed it and considered it extremely important to read considering the age that were living in.
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08-21-2008, 11:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyonidus
I thought this book was very good. I really enjoyed it and considered it extremely important to read considering the age that were living in.
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nostradamus aint got shit on aldous huxley!! |
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08-23-2008, 11:26 PM
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Loved it. Preferred it to 1984, which owes a little to Brave New World in the first place, although I appreciate Orwell as a better writer. Didn't much like the denouement. Like Lyonidus said, I think it is incredibly relevant today.
Apparently a movie's in the works.
K.
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08-25-2008, 01:49 AM
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Brave New World: Good, clever ideas but a lack of sparkle in the prose and plot. We don't have to chemically retard people from birth to have a class that's happy to do menial work- we can either ship them in from the third world or just not educate them well enough here.
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