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A review by civil6512
Island by Aldous Huxley
3.0
A journalist ends up shipwrecked in the island of Pala, who has lived in an idyllic isolation for the last 100 years.
As this strange visitor is shown around the island, Huxley presents his utopia: health, education, work... and a lot of Eastern philosophy sprinkled with psychedelic drugs.
While some of the concepts are certainly interesting, I found the Island's pace to be too slow at times. The worst disappointment was towards the end, where Huxley describes a psychedelic experience with so much detail... that I saw myself skipping through most of it!
As this strange visitor is shown around the island, Huxley presents his utopia: health, education, work... and a lot of Eastern philosophy sprinkled with psychedelic drugs.
While some of the concepts are certainly interesting, I found the Island's pace to be too slow at times. The worst disappointment was towards the end, where Huxley describes a psychedelic experience with so much detail... that I saw myself skipping through most of it!