Brave New World
I did not like Brave New World. It had a few interesting elements but the concepts are a little "out there." I would not recommend Brave New World to anyone unless they had nothing else to read. I did not even finish the book.
You have to be brave to read this book
This is a great book to challenge the belief that there should be no pain, aging, sickness, etc. in our life.
The government believes that by controlling everything in the environment, and by creating classes of people based on chemical tampering and subliminal programming during the incubation process (as babies are developing in the lab), people can be made to have a "happy" and productive life. The problem is that emotion, spirituality, liberty, and questioning is not allowed to disturb the tranquility of this existence.
The Savage from a reservation outside of this environment is brought into the story about a third of the way into it to question this type of life.
One of the scariest books I have ever read.
"Brave New World" is a novel of a particular, possible, future and has been a 'classic' since the 1940s. Today (2008), that 'future' still seems all too possible. I think it is one of the scariest books I have ever read. "1984" was one of the other scariest books.
I recommend reading Brave New World as well as "1984". Then, work against both of these possible futures.
Open your mind
Although Brave New World was written in 1932, the concepts are as real today as anytime in the past. This is a timely classic allowing us to see a could be society but also the idiosyncrociesof todays society.
Prompt and accurate
I was very happy with the speed of delivery and the book's quality (which was on par with what the sender had described). Keep up the good work!
