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wolverine's review against another edition
Brave New World is incredibly racist, especially towards Indigenous American people. I got halfway through the book before I simply gave up on it. Thoroughly unenjoyable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Racial slurs, and Racism
debookgeek's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
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? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use
Moderate: Racism and Sexual content
kaayce's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Damn this book had me at the start. I thought going through the lab was cool. Then somewhere around chapter 7 this book lost me. The plot fizzled out, the whole “savage resort” I found completely offensive and racist I hated hearing that, and I was just confused. Bernard was the only loveable character, I like how he didn’t conform into everything and questioned the way of life. I still ask my self how this book was appropriate for school? I know it’s a classic but it’s just weird, so many sexual things happening I didn’t even know what they were and group intimate activities. We didn’t get to finish this book in school but I read the summaries on the last few chapters and good grief. I get that this book is meant to be different but it’s on another level of freak!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Racism, and Sexual violence
seedsofsunflowers'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? Yes
1.5
This book gave me big Narcissistic Christian White Man TM energy. It did make me think about theoretical societal concepts though. Quite comedic at times (I have been scarred by “Orgy Porgy” ), but Huxley pats himself too much on the back for me to enjoy much of the book. And all the characters are just pieces in his game of Making a Point, so there's not much connection or development really, just the plot as his prediction for the dystopian future society. I only rated as high as I did because it was coherent and introduced ideas that made me think about society today.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Genocide, Infidelity, and Stalking
whatjaimereads's review against another edition
I was excited about this book for a long time, and managed to wade through 11 pages before DNFing and having a Big Cry.
Chapter 1 is rife with extremely graphic racism, sinophobia, ableism, eugenics, and forced sterilisation, and to my understanding it only gets worse from there. It is completely inexcusable for this to be upheld as one of the greats, and reading this was deeply upsetting.
Chapter 1 is rife with extremely graphic racism, sinophobia, ableism, eugenics, and forced sterilisation, and to my understanding it only gets worse from there. It is completely inexcusable for this to be upheld as one of the greats, and reading this was deeply upsetting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism and Racism
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