Greatest book ever written? (Brave New World - Aldous Huxley)

Member Name: zygnoth

Product:	Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Date:	20/05/01 (36 review reads)
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Advantages: Brilliant good.

Disadvantages: Shocking beyond belief.

This book is one of the best books that I have ever read.

It is set well into the future when words like mother, father and parents are frowned upon and a world utopia appears to have been created. Everyone is cloned to avoid imperfections in people and the children are forced to listen to repetitions of rules and laws to prevent them doing harm. Everyone is predestined to their lifestyle where the top class people are born Alpha-Plus and the dumbest people who do all the unwanted chores are born Delta-Minus. Then the story shifts to one of the Alpha-Plus workers in a cloning plant who wants to be alone (which is prohibited). Bernard goes to a reservation where the last remaining natives of the planet earth remain. There he meets the child of a cloned person (Linda who got lost in the reservation and couldn't escape) who is like a representative of the present earth. John reads Shakespeare, believes in family values and condemns the actions of the future world which he entered.

This book is a shocking book of how to world seems to be heading. Huxley has managed to fortell the human cloning and now we are faced with the exact same problem. The world appears to be perfect but it isn't. The human right to free will is taken away and the character John shows this exactly to us. He represents what would happen if one of us was blasted forward into that time.

This is the greatest book ever written in my opinion and I would recommend anyone that can add one and one to buy it. A must for any house.

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