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A review by littletaiko
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
3.0
This poor book - it took me so long to finish it. Every time I picked it up I enjoyed it but then I would later forget that I was reading it. This is a rather uneventful book that pokes fun and English society. A couple of great quotes though.
"After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking."
"As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."
"After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking."
"As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."