Brave New World

Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley

Reviewed by: awesomeVia, 17

Rating: It was alright...



Overall, I thought the book was interesting, more interesting than many classics I have read before. It portrays a dystopia of a world where promiscuity is esteemed, "ending is better than mending", and truth is over happiness. Basically it's a world where everyone gets whatever they want and are programmed to be happy with what they are. The society is pretty much like totalitarianism and communism.
The plot is very interesting with at first talking about the lifestyle and culture of the World State and then about some romances that occur internally in the World State and then about the Director's weakness and the Savage's (outside world) encounter with the World State leading to an ultimate breakdown in the end.
So I would only recommend this book to certain people, especially ones that are open-minded and argumentative. This book has ben known to be controversial and has been on the banned books list.

Recommended to: Certain people, smart-alecks, intellectuals, some students