Brave New World, and, Brave New World Revisited

I quite enjoyed reading this book but preferred 1984 for its prescient depiction of what our lives will be like in the very near future.

This is a book to readbeforeyoudie,,,amazing foresight by Huxley. Its coming true,,,crazy scientists modifying genes etc...

Exactly as described

Excellent book and I had never read the "Revisited", did not disappoint.

BNW while not perhaps truly great in a literary sense, is most certainly extraordinary in a prophetic one, and in its way a deeper book than 1984, displaying Huxley's subtler understanding of totalitarian's potential wiles, and also his wry and absurdist sense of humour...the Epsilon Semi-Morons and their newspapers of no more than one syllable comes to mind. Now what could that be lampooning in the modern world? Huxley once described it as perhaps fraudulent to pretend to be a novelist, but that he was more of an essayist who with much pleasure used the novel form to embody his ideas. Having said that though, I think he could write works that are fine works of art, with special mention to Eyeless in Gaza and also Those Barren Leaves. Anyway to get back on track, BNW Revisited is a work that deserves as wide a readership as its more famous younger brother, and displays Huxley's remarkably incisive, elegant and clear thinking about issues of great importance, which can be broadly grouped together as the ever present threat to man's freedom from those in power. As Huxley wrote, "A democracy is a society dedicated to the proposition that power is often abused, and should be entrusted to officials in limited amounts only." This is especially important now as particularly in modern US and Britain, civil liberties are eroded by centralising governments promising us that these increased powers are for own good. Revisited contains amongst much else very elightening thoughts on propaganda in a supposedly free society. Anyway these two books can hardly be more highly recommended, and despite the heavy subject matter, somehow manage to lighten rather than deaden one's mood and worldview due to the self-evident uplifting sense of Huxley's own self. Those impressed with BNW should probably check out Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov as Huxley said that he gained much of the inspiration from its magnificent book within a book, The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.

Aldous Huxley's classic book, "Brave New World," is very interesting and such a profound read. This book should be strongly recommended. In a way, this book is prophetic. While it is considered a science fiction, it remarkably parallel to that of today's world. Projecting suggestions through our sleeps are one of modes of mind control. Today, we are all been subject constantly to 'suggestions' to one form or another, including a controlled media. And, we are ignoring the madness and believing in the lies brought forth by our so-called 'leaders' through the media. They can even seep the 'suggestions' through education, through televisions, through strobe lights, and through any media of sorts. And, we do not have a strong psychological resistance to these suggestions. There is very important quote from this book that speaks of mind control: "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too - all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides is made up of these suggestions. But these suggestions are our suggestions...suggestions from the State." Brave New World is similar to George Orwell's "1984" in term of bureaucratized society where one lost self-identity and under a complete control of the state. Both "1984" and Brave New World do indeed had an impact on me as well anyone else in reading them. Huxley's book is strongly recommended and receive more than five stars because it holds the real warning...

Cloning, Birth Planning, Racism; Huxley is trying to warn people of the implications of massive application of cloning on human societies. How science will dominate society and why a new rasism will rise after human cloning? Are we going to be pre-determined from the lab? How everyday life will change in future if science is advancing so rapidly? Can we stay forever young and good looking? Is that good? Does science has ethical boundaries? Does more science means less freedom and less democracy? An excellent and prophetic book by Huxley which alarms us and tries to draw a detailed picture of the future when cloning will be considered as natural. A must read!!

Revisted BNW recently after about ten years. It's still a great piece of fiction, easily comparible to any other great dystopian view of society but it just doesn't age as well, particularly the then contemporary references to Ford, Freud, Lenin etc. Nevertheless recommended

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The first 80 pages or so were blank. The book therefore had to be returned.

Quizá lo único que puedo agregar es que por el precio uno cree que puede ser un libro con hojas de mayor calidad...es paperback, no obstante todo ok.

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We are already living in "Brave New World" to some extent. Read this to get an head start.