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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

24 reviews

chrisljm's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Medical content, Misogyny, Alcohol, Racism, Suicide, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Bullying, Blood, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Vomit, and War

ajourneythroughpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Infertility, Suicide, War, Rape, Sexual content, Abortion, and Physical abuse

voilajean's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

Discussion of eugenics

jenna_justi2004's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Rape, Pregnancy, Slavery, Vomit, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Abortion, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexism, and Torture

karol99's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Extremely interesting read, especially drawing comparisons to a capitalistic society as well as progress seen and made in 2022

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Sexual content, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Genocide, Blood, Ableism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Torture, Grief, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Abortion and Suicide

qqjj's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Classism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Racism, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

lunaliz's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Classism, Slavery, and Addiction

Moderate: Racism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Rape, Racial slurs, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

kalea_02's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia

larkais's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I thought this novel was very interesting and the majority of the issues discussed in this book, held up well to this day. The people at the time believed that this sort of society would develop within a century and we can definitely see the progression of it now. 

I think this novel would be more enjoyable if there was an in depth analysis of different themes and motifs.

The second half of the book feel flat for me. John, or the Savage, is probably supposed to be the modern person's surrogate in the novel with how he had access to old books and knowledge. He had a fairly puritan view of the world and how it ought to be run. 

He really did slut shame Lenina out of no where like that huh? He felt bad for his mother and how people called her whore and slut but decided to weaponize those same words at Lenina. Instance of societal teachings I guess? 

I like that we do see people knowing that they were conditioned to believe certain things but do not question it. "Your conditioning would make you no less thankful" compared to the Controller who states that "they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave"

Select quotes I liked:
"They might have been twin embryos gently rocking together on the waves of a bottled ocean of blood-surrogate" - I like that there is the ocean motif even when it's artificial in the new world
"You can't make tragedies without social instability" - I like this line because I only just finished watching Squid Game and it really was a tragedy built on capitalism's ever widening chasm of economic instability. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicide

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Body shaming, Suicide, Death, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Pinched this quote from Neil Postman (with thanks to another reviewer who shared it here first!) - am copying it here for the purposes of my own reading journal. ‘What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.’ I certainly find the world Huxley so daringly and presciently imagined in the 1930s to be chillingly plausible, even recognisable. With that knowledge, I’m now going to go sit and stare blankly at a wall for a while and wonder whether I should rethink my decision to have kids. Fun book lol would recommend to fellow sadists lmfao xoxo