Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Reviews

I wanted to get through this review without referring to George Orwell's 1984, but...well, there we go - 10 words, and that's out of the window. Everybody has heard of 1984, and even if they haven't read it, understands the basic concept: dystopian future of the Earth in, you guessed it, 1984, where everything is controlled by an oppressive ...  Read the complete review

Set far in the future, this classic novel is more a metaphor of how Huxley saw the world around him than how he envisioned the future. This book challenges us to redefine our views and conceptions of what is acceptable, and shows us how good ideas can so easily go bad if taken to excesses. Huxley was a well read man on all ...  Read the complete review

I liked Brave New Wolrd alot, after reading it I tried to read Orwells' 1984 but found that too dated and uniteresting compared to this book, Aldous Huxley's interest in hallucinogen's is sewn into the plot along with the visions of a dystopian uptopia. (a contradiction I know but I seem to get that from the book). It's a meeting of ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes I think that, for someone with an A level in English literature, I'm not very well read. Unfortunately I spent a lot of my time reading politics and philosophy books, so rarely get round to reading fiction for leisure. We did do Orwell's Animal Farm for GCSE and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale in Sixth Form but, despite their ...  Read the complete review

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is one of the true science fiction giants. Good sci-fi is supposed to make you think; this book has the capacity not just to do that but to change your whole perspective on the human race. It concerns a “savage” being brought into the “civilised” world – by a highly intelligent but unhappy man who ...  Read the complete review

The term ?Dystopia? has evolved as a synonym for anti-Utopia; a Utopia referring to a theoretical ?perfect society? often portrayed in the science fiction genre. The novels Brave New World, (Aldous Huxley) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) ...  Read the complete review

A world where you were hypnotised into thinking a certain way, a world where love doesn't exist and a world where the Ford Company rule the world. Welcome to our Brave New World, everyone is now made, not born, everyone is born into a certain social life, and they are taught how to grow up, they are told how to live. Bernard Marx doesn't ...  Read the complete review

What will the world be like in ten years time? Fifty? A hundred? Four hundred? As a genre, much of science fiction is set in the future, but most authors are simply attempting to entertain, not to seriously predict what form humanity’s future will take. And unfortunately, even the more skilful of the authors whose intention is to ...  Read the complete review

It is a rare occasion when a novel goes beyond the restraints of the science fiction genre. Often these boundaries consist of monsters or the monotonous presence of aliens; it was only when I read the fantastic new novel by Aldous Huxley that I truly appreciated what the genre of science fiction had to offer. Brave New World, rather than offering ...  Read the complete review

What is perfect? Aldous presents us an answer that's not far from reality... Brave New World. An advanced playground where we can feel safe and free. A future where we don't have to worry about individuality, because there is none. We love our mobiles. We love buying new toys. And society will do anything to keep ...  Read the complete review

If there was ever a book that could only be read at a certain time in a life, at a certain time in history, to give it’s full effects of meaning and ideology and poignancy, then reading Brave New World at this moment of this world’s history is that book. That, I know, is a very heavy statement, but try and consider these three ...  Read the complete review

I picked up this book having thoroughly enjoyed George Orwell’s later prophetic novel of dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Huxley’s earlier novel is his most famous, and with Orwell’s it acts as a voice on modern society by exaggerating existing trends and negative circumstances. The story follows the main character Bernard Marx ...  Read the complete review

Everyone has some vision of the world in the future. Some people imagine a world that is much like the one we live in today; some picture large space crafts and meetings with life from other planets; some envision a world controlled by machines who use humans as a source of energy; and others see the world controlled by a few very powerful groups ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

‘Brave New World’ is, in my opinion, the finest work of one of the finest authors of the century. The best thing about the book is that it makes you think. Not just that, of course, a lot of books challenge the intellect and imagination (every other book Huxley’s written, for a start), but ‘Brave New World’ not only ...  Read the complete review

"O brave new world that has such people in it." is Miranda's exclamation in Shakespeare's The Tempest. But would she be so enthused if she were to have seen Huxley's Brave New World. The year is 632 A. F. (After Ford) and total human happiness has been achieved. Reproduction is facilitated by growing the embryos in ...  Read the complete review

I can’t remember when I first read Brave New World, but I’m fairly certain it was before I was in my teens. And I’m absolutely certain that I loved it, though I didn’t realize at the time that I loved it for what, from the author’s point of view, were all the wrong reasons. To me, the brave new world of Brave New ...  Read the complete review

Written in 1932, this novel by Englishman Aldous Huxley is a true classic. It is in turn amusing, horrifying and grim. In Brave New World Huxley tells of a society in which humans are graded from Alpha-plus (highest ) to Epsilon-minus (lowest) and brought up by means of sleep-teaching from a very young age to accept their social destiny as fact. ...  Read the complete review

Brave New World is Huxleys' best known work. Set in the future of about 550Yrs, the only religion known or allowed is the following of Henry Ford, the american car designer. 'Our Lord' is replaced by 'Our Ford', all crosses are replaced by T's (the T-Model). Ford pioneered the 'conveyor belt' method of manufacture. ...  Read the complete review

Brave New World is a sci-fi novel about a 'Utopian' society. Auldous Huxley wrote of a society where each person was bred to do a specific task and trained to be happy and contented with their lot. Society is divided into classes with the Alphas at the top, the Betas as blue collar workers, Gammas as skilled manual workers. At the ...  Read the complete review