Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

22 reviews

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Ableism, Kidnapping, Medical content, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Infidelity, Sexual assault, War, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Colonisation, Deportation, Racial slurs, Rape, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Sexism, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infertility, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Xenophobia

rosenrot's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Xenophobia, Suicide, Medical content, Vomit, Violence, and Drug use

dalek_caan's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

This book was not at all what I expected, but it was worth reading. To me the historical context is particularly interesting, to see what Huxley imagined to warn future generations of what not to become. While the message of the book seemed somewhat unclear to me, I found some of the philosophical elements to be interesting to entertain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Suicide, and Sexual assault

gbentley's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia and Drug use

Minor: Sexism and Suicide

teawiththefates's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I understand it’s merit from a philosophical perspective but dang this was a miserable book. The three stars is based on my personal experience with it - fascinating in places, provoking deep thought about human nature and the things that shape us; then also upsetting and disturbing, both sides being equally unpleasant and repulsive. So, yeah, this book was a lot. It won’t be a book I revisit, but it will inspire some good conversation at bookclub I imagine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Classism, Child abuse, Sexism, Body shaming, and Drug use

Moderate: Racism, War, Xenophobia, Fatphobia, and Suicide

triniparade's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Sexism, Addiction, Suicide, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Infertility

Minor: Colonisation and Xenophobia

emjbarnes's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

Well written prose - not sure what Huxley was trying to argue to be honest. I thought the colonialism was an intentional comment on the same to begin with, but I guess not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Classism, Colonisation, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction and Sexual harassment

vxmlie's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Overrated. The concept was interesting, the execution was underwhelming and poor. The characters were flat and mostly uninteresting. Definitely not likeable either. I just could not care what happened to them. Huxley failed to connect the reader (me) with the story.
The last 40 pages of the book were alright but not good. Nevertheless, those last pages were better than the first 190 pages of the novel. The only reason why I read it in a week's time is because I wanted to stop being tortured by Huxley's plain, boring and quite problematic (he was an American in the 1930's) writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Xenophobia

blueberryelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective

• Loveable characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Dementia, and Racism

witchhenrietta's review against another edition

dark 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? No

1.0

The most problematic book I‘ve read, probably ever. I know it‘s dystopian and when it was written, but that doesn‘t make it okay. Still promoting this as a classic is ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Transphobia, Sexism, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Colonisation, Addiction, and Biphobia