Brave New World Book Review

Ended up getting sick and could finish as this book as fast as i normally would have been able to.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Paperback, 268 pages
Read: Feb. 21 - Feb. 24
Rating: 4.5/5
Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Philosophy, Science Fiction
Summery: Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric version 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.

Review: This story takes place in a future where people are genetically bred. The story starts of with the D.H.C. (Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning) giving a tour of their factory to young children and explaining how they breed and condition most of the people of the world now. In this future things like conditioning, world controllers, taking soma to be happy and numb(more or less), and sexual promiscuity are normal things, and things like monogamy, being a mother or father, getting old and sick, having feelings of anger and sadness, and being alone are seen as strange and in their own words smut and pornographic. The story continues with Bernard Marx, an Alpha who does not have the features of an alpha, Bernard feels alone. It also continues with Lenina Crowne, who has been perfectly conditioned to never feel alone. Bernard has decided to take Lenina with him to a Savage Reservations (a Savage Reservation is where people are monogamous, and use pain as a way to advance into adulthood, and birth children, and have old age and sickness, and have mothers and fathers). I really like this book, it definitely provoked some great and interesting thoughts for me, I really liked chapters 16 and 17.

4 books down, 4 more to go.
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