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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
One of the few books I was required to read during my school that I enjoyed. This book is a great satire. It touches on how people want to much control on everything around them even humans themselves. It brings up control in other ways as well such as how everyone in this world is completely oblivious to anything that is 'REAL' but one young man does and he seeks it out by going agianst everything that society has become. A very interesting story about how things get so out of hand that we lose our individualality. There are many controversal concepts that this book touches on that are arranged in a very intriguing story.
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5/5
Very depressing, yet incredibly important read. It does make you question the extent to which society as we know today could be dehumanised.
Very depressing, yet incredibly important read. It does make you question the extent to which society as we know today could be dehumanised.
dark
reflective
tense
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is my third or fourth time reading this novel and honestly I liked it less this time than any other time. I’m pretty sure it was mostly because I read Brave New World with Brave New World Revisited and while Brave New World is an intriguing dystopian story (although very smarmy and I’ve always thought so), Brave New World Revisited is a series of dull essays which occasionally make interesting observations alongside grotesque ones. Don’t read these close together.
I'd have enjoyed this quite a bit more if it weren't for the spoiler to end all spoilers that Aldous Huxley included in his introduction. Sigh....