Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Pros: An amazingly detailed anti-utopia

Cons: Obnoxious characters, plot holes, doesn't live up to it's hype

Review: Warning: I spoil the plot... what little there is.

Not a week goes past that a Brave New World reference doesn't pass through my lips. Even before I read the book, I'd throw around references to Soma and alphas, and occasionally throw in a...

Pros: lively, plot twisting, entertaining

Cons: none

Review: This is an amazing book that I could not put down. one of the classics like 1984 that takes your world and gives you the perspective of it turned upside down and inside out. Huxley takes societal power to the extreme in this novel and shoves in your...

Pros: very very interesting book

Cons: a little slow at times

Review: The book is a about a society of people who, through a scientific process, have been bred in specific ways, ranging from the Alphas, who are the politicians and the most intelligent, to the Epsilons, the ones that are the dumb worker type. It's a...

Pros: Thought provoking

Cons: Abrupt ending

Review: This book is set in the future, but as we progress into the twenty-first century with breakthroughs in genetic engineering and cloning, it is becoming disturbingly more similar with our world today. Our trends are pointing to a braver world like in...

Pros: Un-cliche story, realistically consistent, depth in characters

Cons: Won't seem like a new idea to s.f. veterans, slow start

Review: I've just finished this book recently, so this struck me as the best time to write an opinion, the final lines still fresh in my mind.

Brave New World begins with plenty of description. So much so, in fact, that I was afraid that the...

Pros: Great read, entertaining, lots of soma...

Cons: none

Review: I stumbled across this book on the family bookshelf after some of the other kids in English class did a book report on it. I figured I might as well try it. I had managed to read at least half of 1984 after all.

If you've read...

Pros: Oddly fulfulling

Cons: Can be confusing at times, jumps around a bit

The Bottom Line: It's the exact opposite of 1984, but the same in many ways.

Review: I recently finished reading Orwell's 1984 and immediately started reading Huxley's Brave New World thereafter. Both of these books are often compared because they both offer contrasting predictions of the future.

In Brave New World, the...

Pros: good plot, suspenseful

Cons: none

Review: How can begin to express words concerning the lives of individuals who have made or have only begun to make a difference? Two such characters, John the Savage, from Brave New World, and Hester Prynne, from The Scarlett Letter, show how their...

Pros: original, startlingly-realistic, believable, frightening

Cons: some sexual content, mature themes

The Bottom Line: This is a fantastic book which chronicles a possible future of mankind. It is startlingly realistic and a must read novel.

Review: It seems almost ironic. Brave New World chronicles a place where individuals are no longer allowed to express true personal opinions. They are brain-washed and molded into strange, submissive, drug-addicted creatures. And yet, here I am writing my...

Pros: the character Bernard Marx; historically intriguing; I learned some Shakespeare

Cons: completely dated and unrealistic story; rest of the characters; hard-to-read; depressing

The Bottom Line: Sci-fi afficiandoes can do much better with Bradbury or more contemporary sci-fi authors.

Review: Another subtitle could be Stuck In Darwinian Antiquity. I wasn't able to choose which was better, but they infer the same thing because Huxley's intimidating message here is that in the far future we will still need domination by an elite few to be...