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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dnf revisited. didn’t enjoy the novel enough to care about huxley’s thoughts on his fiction or reality.
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As prescient as this book written in 1932 was, I sadly could not connect with this story in the same way as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, or even the curiously similar The Giver.
The first chapter, John learning and being influenced by Shakespeare, and the chapter wherein John debates the Controller are the best parts of the book, in my opinion.
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Interesting - but I wish the characters weren't so... At least that Bernard - he wasn't so wishy-washy.
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book blew my mind when I was 16! My mind was blown again with 1984 last year. Woohoo, dystopia!
I loved it. I don't know why I haven't read this book before, but I have liked it as much as I expected. The society Huxley describes has already plenty of similarities with our own society. Of course, soma still doesn't exist and there are some other things which may never happen, but the way he thought to control of the population is not as far as where we are now. Bread and circuses we have plenty, even if different from the book, but as terrorific as it may seem we are already been controlled. Brave New World Revisited gives us a bit of knowledge of where his distopian society came from, and in some manner where we are heading to. I liked reading it so as to know what was happening then for Huxley to create this fable. It is not easy to try to escape from the future we have in front of us, education would be the key for it, but it is difficult to fight against the powers that control our societies. However, it may be our only hope.