Brave New World

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill defined longing to break free A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distressHuxley s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. Download Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – kino-fada.fr Warning The following review contains humor If you read it and actually think that I m being critical of Huxley, try reading it again Here s a hint Look for the irony of the italicized parts when compared to the previous statements If you post a comment that asserts that I m wrong stupid crazy for this and or try to lecture me on all the points you think I missed then I m going to assume that you read it literally, missed the joke, didn t read the other comments where I ve already answe Warning The following review contains humor If you read it and actually think that I m being critical of Huxley, try reading it again Here s a hint Look for the irony of the italicized parts when compared to the previous statements If you post a comment that asserts that I m wrong stupid crazy for this and or try to lecture me on all the points you think I missed then I m going to assume that you read it literally, missed the joke, didn t read the other comments where I ve already answered this about a dozen times, and I will delete your post. I have to apologize for this review The concept of this book was so outlandish that I think it made my mind wander, and you may find some odd random thoughts scattered in it Anyhow, this book was so silly and unrealistic Like any of this could happen In the far future the babies are genetically engineered and designed for certain stations in life with a large workforce bred to be happy with men...I need to parse my rating of this book into the good or great , the bad and the very fugly because I thought aspects of it were inspired genius and parts of it were dreggy, boring and living near the border of awful In the end, the wowness and importance of the novel s ideas as well as the segments that I thoroughly enjoyed carried the book to a strong 3.5 star rating.THE REALLY GOOD EXCELLENT I loved the first third of the book in which the basic outline of the Brave New World and its d I need to parse my rating of this book into the good or great , the bad and the very fugly because I thought aspects of it were inspired genius and parts of it were dreggy, boring and living near the border of awful In the end, the wowness and importance of the novel s ideas as well as the segments that I thoroughly enjoyed carried the book to a strong 3.5 star rating.THE REALLY GOOD EXCELLENT I loved the first third of the book in which the basic outline of the Brave New World and its devalued, co...remember that last semester of english class, senior year, where every class seemed painfully long and excrutiatingly pointless when everybody sat around secretly thinking of cute and witty things to put in other people s yearbooks when the teachers realized we were already braindead from filling ou...Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 That s almost eighty years ago, but the book reads like it could have been written yesterday especially interesting to me was how Huxley was able to predict the future of both genetic engineering and the action blockbuster Damn I think I liked this one better than 1984, the book traditionally considered to be this one s counterpart Not really sure why this is, but it s probably because this one has a clearer outsider character the Savage who ca Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 That s almost eighty years ago, but the book reads like it could have been written yesterday especially interesting to me was how Huxley was able to predict the future of both genetic engineering and the action blockbuster Damn I think I liked this one better than 1984, the book traditionally considered to be this one s counterpart Not really sure why this is, but it s probably because this one has a clearer outsider character the Savage who can view the world Huxley created through his separate perspective In this light, I will give the last word to Neil Postman, who discussed the differences between Orwell and Huxley s views of the future What Orwell feared were those who would ban books What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one Orwell feared t... Mr Foster duly told them.Told them of the growing embryo on its bed of peritoneum Made them taste the rich blood surrogate on which it fed Explained why it had to be stimulated with placentin and thyroxin Told them of the corpus luteum extract Showed them the jets through which at every twelfth metre from zero to 2040 it ...As a teenager I went through a period of reading a vast number of distopian novels probably all the teenage angst This is the one that has continued to haunt me however, long after the my youthful cynicism has died it s death It s basically a book about the utopian ideal everyone s happy, everyone has what they want and EVERYTHING is based on logical principles However, there is something very rotten at the heart It s about how what we want isn t always what we should get It looks at ho As a teenager I went through a period of reading a vast number of distopian novels probably all the teenage angst This is the one that has continued to haunt me however, long after the my youthful cynicism has died it s death It s basically a book about the utopian ideal everyone s happy, everyone has what they want and EVERYTHING is based on logical principles However, there is something very rotten at the heart It s about how what we want isn t always what we should get It looks at how state sponsered happiness can entirely miss the point Perhaps, most importantly, it makes the case for individual freedom rather than authoritarian diktat It should be read hand in hand with Mill s Utilitarianism to get a good idea of ... I am I, and I wish I weren t. I am I, and I wish I weren t. 1 How many goodly creatures are there hereHow beauteous mankind is O brave new worldThat has such people in t 2 1958 Brave New World Revisited 3 Given that dystopian books are generally not my first choice run to books to read and I m sure I didn t understand the full depths of this book which was written 21 years before I was born.even I can see Aldous Huxley had a brilliant mind I was trying to wrap my thinking around the conspiracies that it looked liked the author was trying to warn us were happening in the world trying to visualize t...This book presents a futuristic dystopia of an unusual kind Unlike in Orwell s 1984, Huxley s dystopia is one in which everyone is happy However, they are happy in only the most trivial sense they lead lives of simple pleasures, but lives without science, art, philosophy or religion In short, lives without deeper meaning Although people are expected to work hard and efficiently during working hours, during off hours people live in an infantile way, never engaging their minds, and satisfying This book presents a futuristic dystopia of an unusual kind Unlike in Orwell s 1984, Huxley s dystopia is one in which everyone is happy However, they are happy in only the most trivial sense they lead lives of simple pleasures, but lives without science, art, philosophy or religion In short, lives without deeper meaning Although people are expected to work hard and efficiently during working hours, during off hours people live in an infantile way, never engaging their minds, and satisfying themselves with sex and drugs.The premise of the book I find quite interesting However, the execution is lacking The characters are not particularly endearing, and indeed they are quite flat Worse, Huxley fails to explain why this future of controlled contentment is wrong The reader will intuit that the this indeed a dystopia posing as a utopia, but Huxley s reliance on this feeling is a philosophical failure ... Brave New World is a vision of the future where science will at last be put full time into the service of our needs Some of the ideas might seem a little controversial because of our preconceived ideas but we must be open minded SEX Biology teaches that sex is meant to be had To put restrictions on sex is as silly as putting restrictions on which chair to sit And like chairs, women are meant to be pneumatic Oh, she s a splendid girl Wonderfully ...

• English
• 16 November 2017
Aldous Huxley
• Paperback
• 268 pages
• 0060929871
• Aldous Huxley
• Brave New World