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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780060850524
ISBN: 0060850523
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: 2006-10-17
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

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Summary: Brave New World
Comment: I did not like this book. It had a few interesting elements but the concepts are a little "out there." I would not recommend this book to anyone unless they had nothing else to read. I did not even finish the book.

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Summary: You have to be brave to read this book
Comment: This is a great book to challenge the belief that there should be no pain, aging, sickness, etc. in our life.

The government believes that by controlling everything in the environment, and by creating classes of people based on chemical tampering and subliminal programming during the incubation process (as babies are developing in the lab), people can be made to have a "happy" and productive life. The problem is that emotion, spirituality, liberty, and questioning is not allowed to disturb the tranquility of this existence.

The Savage from a reservation outside of this environment is brought into the story about a third of the way into it to question this type of life.

I think the story dragged a little bit, which is why I gave it four, instead of five, stars.

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Summary: One of the scariest books I have ever read.
Comment: "Brave New World" is a novel of a particular, possible, future and has been a 'classic' since the 1940s. Today (2008), that 'future' still seems all too possible. I think it is one of the scariest books I have ever read. "1984" was one of the other scariest books.

I recommend reading this book as well as "1984". Then, work against both of these possible futures.

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Summary: Open your mind
Comment: Although this book was written in 1932, the concepts are as real today as anytime in the past. This is a timely classic allowing us to see a could be society but also the idiosyncrociesof todays society.

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Summary: Prompt and accurate
Comment: I was very happy with the speed of delivery and the book's quality (which was on par with what the sender had described). Keep up the good work!

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