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12-14-2009, 06:42 AM
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Brand New World - Adolus Huxley
What do you guys think about this book? We're reading it in my mass media class, and I just can't put this book down. It's supposed to be a 6 week book, and I'm halfway through it on my first week of having it.
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12-14-2009, 04:25 PM
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Would that be "Brave new world"? If you like it try "Island" afterwards, same author.
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12-14-2009, 04:53 PM
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I recommend those and "the Doors of Perception", by Adolus' neighbor Aldous.
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12-14-2009, 08:53 PM
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Just read Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley and it was awesome, so this is one I'll haf to check out.
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12-14-2009, 10:09 PM
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Yeah sorry, I wasn't paying attention to what I was typing. It is Brave New World.
@Caelum, it's an amazing novel.
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12-17-2009, 05:31 AM
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I think I've expressed my views on it in an earlier thread.
It was good, but, having read it after 1984 I found it somewhat disappointing. Bernard was unlikeable. The ending was silly. John the Savage's journey was unfortunate.
It was just like a sillier take on the realistic darkness found in 1984.
...but then in the other thread I was told not to compare them, and that BNW is actually a fiendishly clever satire, of amazing foresight.
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01-17-2010, 01:08 AM
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01-18-2010, 02:36 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom88
It was just like a sillier take on the realistic darkness found in 1984.
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But was written before 1984. Huxley actually taught Eric Blair (George Orwell) at Eton.
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...but then in the other thread I was told not to compare them, and that BNW is actually a fiendishly clever satire, of amazing foresight.
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As is 1984, but they satirise different things. BNW, for example, predicted cloning, the rise of Globalism and a world controlled by corporations. 1984 was a satire of Britain immediately after WW2, a grim, dirty place where the media was tightly controlled by government, was still under tight rationing and was effectively just a satellite of the US.
Both have the same premise; a socialist, totalitarian world. Only the methods of control differ. In 1984 it's fear, in BNW it's pleasure.
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01-18-2010, 03:53 PM
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I find it kind of ironic that you were told not to compare the two, Tom88, because I was required to read both in one of my high school English classes. I doubt my teacher would've liked being told that he shouldn't ask us to compare the two novels, since we did so extensively.
Personally, I enjoyed both novels, although I found 1984 a bit more believable if trying to compare it to today's world . . . though the same could be said for pleasure.
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01-20-2010, 03:41 AM
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Quote:
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I find it kind of ironic that you were told not to compare the two,
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Likewise, as everyone else has been since 1948. Even Huxley compared them; he thought his own book was better. |
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