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Brave New World

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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What a prescient novel! The message from this book is as relevant today as when it was written in 1932 ... disturbingly so. It really causes you to question what qualities are truly valued by a culture or civilization. This story portrays a realistic scenario if "Community, Identity, Stability" were the core values of a world state. I think this book convincingly demonstrates that happiness at the expense of true freedom is a meaningless existence.

Original entry from 5/17

Somehow, I've gotten to this point in my life without having read this book. Currently reading.

Posted by Eric on May 21, 2004 06:18 PM • • Microfeed

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Dude, two comments in one evening...I feel like a blogstalker, but it just so happens that I am half way through Huxley's later counter point to Brave New World, "Island"...I am thinking of going back to BNW after I finish.

Huxley's da man.

Posted by: Charles | May 20, 2004 07:24 AM

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