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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
Muito interessante a forma como uma pequena mentira pode ter tantas repercussões negativas, mesmo depois de tanto tempo, a forma como o romance mostra isso de modo tão vívido parece revelar uma relação muito próxima ao conceito indiano de karma. Assim como a descrição do pós-morte de Eustace parece muito próxima a do Bardo Thodol.
É muito interessante como conceitos das religiões indianas são tão presentes nas obras de Huxley.
Mais uma das obras primas de Huxley, que nunca decepciona.
É muito interessante como conceitos das religiões indianas são tão presentes nas obras de Huxley.
Mais uma das obras primas de Huxley, que nunca decepciona.
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There's a fair amount of character development to begin with, some of it seems extraneous but without it, the pace of the book would flounder. Aldous remarked that this book was his most successful attempt of fusing story with ideology. At the heart of the story lies a very simple ethical dilemma which is framed between asceticism and hedonism. The young would-be poet, Sebastian is our protagonist caught between two family ideologies wedged in between two world wars. There are some shining moments where Aldous uses language and convention masterfully. The end I found was a bit too didactic but considering the length of the story, it worked in a kind of contemporary parable. Huxley's writing doesn't disappoint, but at times it strays from strengthening points to instead fill in genealogical gaps. There were times I was lost in the book, and other times I was lost elsewhere. There are some wonderful interjections by Sebastian's recently deceased Uncle Eustace, usually portrayed by a seance, but they allow another voice to enter the drama. I also found the strained sexual relationship between Sebastian and Mrs Thwale to be delightfully awkward and unsentimental. In fact, I found all the character interactions to be interesting and unlaboured. I think that's key to Aldous's writing, nothing feels forced, it's a natural diatribe unravelled with a simple plot.
The story's good, and Huxley has some good insights. But it just gets... Very Preachy.
But to be fair, that almost-last line is a good note to end on: 'One can either go on listening to the news - and of course the news is always bad, even when it sounds good. Or alternatively one can make up one's mind to listen to something else.'
In short, good if you want to know Huxley's philosophy at the time that he wrote it, less good as a novel.
But to be fair, that almost-last line is a good note to end on: 'One can either go on listening to the news - and of course the news is always bad, even when it sounds good. Or alternatively one can make up one's mind to listen to something else.'
In short, good if you want to know Huxley's philosophy at the time that he wrote it, less good as a novel.
Review in: https://enchantedbybookssite.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/time-must-have-a-stop-book-review/
“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.”
One night I was out with friends, and for some reason we started talking about books, one of my friends told me he had discovered the writing of Aldous Huxley and loved everything he had read until that moment, so that memory stayed with me, until a few months later, when I went to the book fair, and saw "Time Must Have a Stop" by that same author, I was intrigued by the tittle, and decided to get it, I'm really glad I did.
This was a work I had never heard of before, and written by an author which I had never read before. I must say I was pleased with what I was given, it is beautifully written but the writing itself is not for everyone, it is a hard writing filled with hard words, not like most books I read, which I liked the change, but it was a harder read.
This book is a combination of philosophical themes portraited or hidden in a novel form. I must admit that the ammount of topics discussed in this book are quite astonishing. In my opinion one of the most well written books, that most certainly desserves to be read.
“All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.”
“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.”
One night I was out with friends, and for some reason we started talking about books, one of my friends told me he had discovered the writing of Aldous Huxley and loved everything he had read until that moment, so that memory stayed with me, until a few months later, when I went to the book fair, and saw "Time Must Have a Stop" by that same author, I was intrigued by the tittle, and decided to get it, I'm really glad I did.
This was a work I had never heard of before, and written by an author which I had never read before. I must say I was pleased with what I was given, it is beautifully written but the writing itself is not for everyone, it is a hard writing filled with hard words, not like most books I read, which I liked the change, but it was a harder read.
This book is a combination of philosophical themes portraited or hidden in a novel form. I must admit that the ammount of topics discussed in this book are quite astonishing. In my opinion one of the most well written books, that most certainly desserves to be read.
“All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.”
2.5
My sister purchased this on a whim, wrapped it up and dropped it onto my lap on Christmas day - otherwise I probably would never have read it. It is my first experience of Huxley, though Brave New World has been on my to-read shelf for quite some time.
Time Must Have A Stop (or, This Book Must Have A Stop, as I came to regard it for the first 130 pages) is a rather obscure work of Huxley's, though he considered it to be his magnum opus - It is interesting how a writers opinion in regards to thier best work often differs considerably from the readers.
It is a short book, but it is made to feel infinitely longer due to the excessive amount of dialogue contained within its pages, most of which only serves to convince the reader that they are not reading a story, but being preached at. It isn't until around half way through the novel that a story begins to emerge and some vestige of enjoyment is to be had.
To be breif (sort of), the story follows a 17 year old boy named Sebastian. Sebastian is a poetic prodigy, but he's also a bit of a brat. This isn't helped by the fact that his entire family and most of his surrounding acquaintances are both unlikeable and immoral, filling his susceptible teenage mind with all sorts of contrasting ideas and political viewpoints - but frankly, all Sebastian really seems to care about is two things: sex (he's at that age, you know) and obtaining some evening wear, of which has been forbidden by his stingy, philanthropic father.
You see, Sebastian has been invited to a party, and at this party there will be girls, and Sebastian likes girls - if only to serve as fodder for his fantasies; but Sebastian is too proud to attend this event without some decent evening clothes. And so a series of events unfold involving an uncle who (in order to spite his brother) offers to buy Sebastian evening clothes, conveniently and subsequently dies (thwarting Sebastian's only chance to obtain said evening clothes), causing Sebastian to resort to selling a recently obtained gift from his uncle in order to buy himself some evening clothes, of which the selling of this item is misunderstood by the family as theft, thus cornering Sebastian and provoking him to tell a series of lies which in turn results in a series of misfortunes for people other than himself (a dude goes to prison, a dog is murdered, the reader shoots themselves), provoking feelings of guilt and eventually a change of character (we hope).
Oh - and amongst all this we have alternating chapters in which we are described life after death from the perspective of the recently deceased uncle.
I cannot say that I liked the book, because I didn't, but nor can I say that I disliked it, for it is not without some merit. A smile was provoked on occasion, and I found myself to be moderately engaged in what little story there was.
Somewhere buried among the political and philosophical waffle of Time Must Have A Stop is a relatively decent coming-of-age story, but due to it's dreadful verbosity I would not feel justified in rating it any higher then a 2.5.
My sister purchased this on a whim, wrapped it up and dropped it onto my lap on Christmas day - otherwise I probably would never have read it. It is my first experience of Huxley, though Brave New World has been on my to-read shelf for quite some time.
Time Must Have A Stop (or, This Book Must Have A Stop, as I came to regard it for the first 130 pages) is a rather obscure work of Huxley's, though he considered it to be his magnum opus - It is interesting how a writers opinion in regards to thier best work often differs considerably from the readers.
It is a short book, but it is made to feel infinitely longer due to the excessive amount of dialogue contained within its pages, most of which only serves to convince the reader that they are not reading a story, but being preached at. It isn't until around half way through the novel that a story begins to emerge and some vestige of enjoyment is to be had.
To be breif (sort of), the story follows a 17 year old boy named Sebastian. Sebastian is a poetic prodigy, but he's also a bit of a brat. This isn't helped by the fact that his entire family and most of his surrounding acquaintances are both unlikeable and immoral, filling his susceptible teenage mind with all sorts of contrasting ideas and political viewpoints - but frankly, all Sebastian really seems to care about is two things: sex (he's at that age, you know) and obtaining some evening wear, of which has been forbidden by his stingy, philanthropic father.
You see, Sebastian has been invited to a party, and at this party there will be girls, and Sebastian likes girls - if only to serve as fodder for his fantasies; but Sebastian is too proud to attend this event without some decent evening clothes. And so a series of events unfold involving an uncle who (in order to spite his brother) offers to buy Sebastian evening clothes, conveniently and subsequently dies (thwarting Sebastian's only chance to obtain said evening clothes), causing Sebastian to resort to selling a recently obtained gift from his uncle in order to buy himself some evening clothes, of which the selling of this item is misunderstood by the family as theft, thus cornering Sebastian and provoking him to tell a series of lies which in turn results in a series of misfortunes for people other than himself (a dude goes to prison, a dog is murdered, the reader shoots themselves), provoking feelings of guilt and eventually a change of character (we hope).
Oh - and amongst all this we have alternating chapters in which we are described life after death from the perspective of the recently deceased uncle.
I cannot say that I liked the book, because I didn't, but nor can I say that I disliked it, for it is not without some merit. A smile was provoked on occasion, and I found myself to be moderately engaged in what little story there was.
Somewhere buried among the political and philosophical waffle of Time Must Have A Stop is a relatively decent coming-of-age story, but due to it's dreadful verbosity I would not feel justified in rating it any higher then a 2.5.