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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

112 reviews

llsouderii's review against another edition

dark reflective relaxing 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming

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, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse

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

voilajean's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

Discussion of eugenics

summerb's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Misogyny, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

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

I hate my life but at least I finished that awful book. 

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Content Warnings

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

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, Sexual content, Colonisation, and Classism

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

Minor: Suicide and Abortion

sprinumter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Huxley wrote this book 80 years ago and there are components of the story that are remnacent of today’s society. We are still working toward this classist, “perfect“, everybody-is-happy-because-they-know-their-place, all-for-the-greater-good, society.  It is scary to think that technology may eventually get to the point where people are just conditioned to be happy living in a systematically oppressed society based on being a delta or a gamma, least ye be an alpha or beta. The first time I read this book was in high school and it is surprising to me that I did not make the connections that I have now 10 years later. Even if you have read this before, try rereading it again to see how your views have changed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

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

is_reader42's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Racism, and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent

devin_raquel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Read this book because my Brit. Lit. professor said I’d like it, and I was not disappointed. A novel that was written WAY before it’s time, I was completely captivated by the utopian/dystopian (depending on how you look at it) society created by Huxley. I think that this novel shows the pros and cons that are to occur if every inconvenience was erased from the world, and people were “conditioned” from birth to fit in with the whole; individuality having been eradicated fully. Huxley created the most extreme and effective brain washing method I’ve ever seen. The author chooses to write the dialogue randomly and give rolling descriptions, so that the readers experience the same sense of disconnection that the characters feel throughout this book. A society absent of pain, grief, and anger is a society that can’t contain true happiness or fulfillment. It means Huxley has created a society devoid of compassion and empathy, where the emphasis is placed on fleeting pleasures instead of lasting accomplishments. 

The reason this book gets 4.75 instead of 5 stars is because of the ending. While I feel as though Huxley couldn’t have ended his novel any other way, I was left feeling unsatisfied; though I have a sneaking suspicion that was what Aldous Huxley wanted his readers to feel.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, and Gaslighting