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A review by keybladium
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3.0
This was a very thought provoking book that i enjoyed reading yet often found myself a little confused with what was happening.
I really liked the setting and the way everything was introduced, the structure of this new society was very well explained and it was very clear the ideology of the author and I find it to be very interesting to look back on how society has progressed since this book was written and how things are similar and different in comparison. Obviously the book was very extreme, but the message was very well presented and it was clear to understand how those ideas were formed given when reflecting on real world issues and events. But for me, that was the main appeal of the book, the ideology and the message, not the story itself.
I found the story to be quite confusing most of the time and I just couldn’t learn most characters names and relations to each other which made a lot of the moments have a lot less impact and just made it a struggle to get immersed at times. There was a weird narrative structure in the early chapters where every couple lines was someone else’s perspective and whilst it was creative, I found it to be a mess trying to understand who was who and what was happening and where it was happening. It all felt so fast paced and some things I enjoyed such as learning the different viewpoints of the key characters but others it was kinda a struggle to get through without frying my brain. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either.
Overall it was a very thought provoking book but one that I enjoyed most for the way it portrayed it’s message and reflection on the text, history and society more than I did for the story but I also feel that was the intention so it was definitely effective at doing that
I really liked the setting and the way everything was introduced, the structure of this new society was very well explained and it was very clear the ideology of the author and I find it to be very interesting to look back on how society has progressed since this book was written and how things are similar and different in comparison. Obviously the book was very extreme, but the message was very well presented and it was clear to understand how those ideas were formed given when reflecting on real world issues and events. But for me, that was the main appeal of the book, the ideology and the message, not the story itself.
I found the story to be quite confusing most of the time and I just couldn’t learn most characters names and relations to each other which made a lot of the moments have a lot less impact and just made it a struggle to get immersed at times. There was a weird narrative structure in the early chapters where every couple lines was someone else’s perspective and whilst it was creative, I found it to be a mess trying to understand who was who and what was happening and where it was happening. It all felt so fast paced and some things I enjoyed such as learning the different viewpoints of the key characters but others it was kinda a struggle to get through without frying my brain. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either.
Overall it was a very thought provoking book but one that I enjoyed most for the way it portrayed it’s message and reflection on the text, history and society more than I did for the story but I also feel that was the intention so it was definitely effective at doing that