rissasreading 's review for:

Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley

3.5

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

It honestly took me awhile to finish this book because I found it very dull to read. What I mean by that is there isn't really a specific conflict in the world that our narrator is struggling with and there isn't really an end point to the story that's being told. This story is very much one of an internal adventure to growth and understanding of and within the world around our narrator. I did enjoy that not many of the characters were enjoyable to read and felt like it added to the internal struggle of our narrator. I really only liked him and Brian tbh which is telling. I also think it's funny that while many of the trivialities the people in the story go through are completely absurd to the current times, there are a lot of similarities still. I also think most of Huxleys commentary on the state of things in the future chapters still applies today but you can see how and where we, as a society, are failing to be better than we once were. I also personally think that some of the flipping between the past to the present took away from the story for me, but I do think it was an interesting way to tell this tale.
Overall, meaningful but rather dull