Lars reviewed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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5 stars
4.6
PDF, 185 pages
Spanish language
Published March 31, 2021 by Titivillus.
Un Mundo Feliz
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. - Container.
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. - Container.
Michael Kovacs reviewed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
3 stars
I truly struggled with this book and I don’t think it gets anywhere truly interesting until the final 50ish pages. Maybe I went into Brave New World with an expectation of what it should be given it has been sold as the most accurate dystopian novel of the early 1900s rather than taking it for what it is. I agree with its points about life needing its ups and downs to be worth living and that rebellion against the system will be absorbed into the system and exploited, especially under capitalism, but it took the longest path to get to those points. Reading and finishing Brave New World gave me the understanding for why I was unable to read Doors of Perception. I don’t think I care all that much for Huxley’s writing style.
Subjects
- Utopias
- Brainwashing
- Moral and ethical aspects of Science
- Fiction
- Science and state
- Social problems
- Passivity (Psychology)
- Culture
- Propaganda
- Fiction in English
- Genetic engineering
- Science
- English fiction
- Science fiction
- Dystopias
- Totalitarianism
- Collectivism
- Control (Psychology)
- History and criticism
- Ciencia-ficción
- Lavado de cerebro
- Ficción
- Science-fiction anglaise
- Science-fiction
- Reading Level-Grade 9
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Reading Level-Grade 10
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- Gesellschaft
- Moral and ethical aspects
- Totalitarismus
- Ethics
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, psychological
- Fiction, political
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Spanish fiction
- Capitalism
- Dystopia
- satire
- class systems
- London
- future
- capitalist civilization
- English Science fiction
- Large type books
- Psychological fiction
- Political fiction
- FICTION
- Classics
- Dystopian
- Science Fiction
- Genetic Engineering
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