Reviews

Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley

2000ace's review against another edition

4.0

Antic Hay is a mishmash of various topics on the mind of Aldous Huxley after the end of the first World War. Told from the perspective of a number of different characters, it may suffer from a lack of focus on a plot, but never deviates from Huxley incisive insights into the culture of the time.

jgwc54e5's review against another edition

3.0

A comic novel about the useless classes in the early 1920s. The main character invents gumbrils patented small clothes! Pneumatic trousers for comfort. It seems quite modern particularly about sex and religion. 3* because I don’t read latin and there’s also references I don’t really get.

kjcharles's review against another edition

Huxley's first book, a satire of dreadful people in the early 1920s. Flashes of brilliance in description don't make up for the plotlessness, or several lengthy and excruciating stretches of thinly disguised authorial hobbyhorse-racing, and it's full of misogyny including a nasty victim-blaming rape scene, racism, and antisemitism. Deeply avoidable.