Brave New World

Book is Good. Editing is not.

Bought a copy of this to have on my nook. Started reading it and found a few typographical errors in the book. It only gets worse throughout.

It's not unreadable but, it is pretty annoying. I have a paper copy of the book so I didn't really need a nook copy.

Save your money for a copy that isn't full of errors.

11 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords...

If multinational corporations ruled the world...people would be bred in bottles for certain jobs to make society more efficient. They would be psychologically conditioned to always want to buy new things, to find the idea of close personal ties to be undesirable, and to be happy with their lives no matter what (and take some "soma" whenever they began to feel unhappy). And any social dissenters would be sent to Greenland -- or simply crushed. Huxley saw it coming 80 years ago with his dystopian classic that depicts what happens seven centuries from now when someone whose psychological conditioning didn't work perfectly runs into a "savage" in New Mexico and brings him back to "civilization." The characters aren't very deep, but one would expect that with psychologically conditioned people. Meanwhile, the science behind his "Brave New World" seems inevitable. Whether or not the people let themselves become happy slaves to a corporate military state is yet unknown. Of course, there are lobbyists in place to encourage it with unfettered cash. But don't worry too much -- just enjoy Huxley's short-but-sweet vision of a possible future and realize that, if it ever comes to pass, at least you know that you'll be perpetually happy... :)

7 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Classic novel, sub-par conversion

Huxley's story is stronger than ever, unfortunately the conversion process left much to be desired. Many run-on words and formatting errors negatively affect the flow of reading this timeless novel. Buyer beware!

7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Poor Quality!! Many Errors

A ton of errors in this nook book. I dropped this and picked up a copy from my local library. Would not recommend purchase... ever.

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Really.....

Come on this book (in my opinion) was awful. I dont get why as a sophmore I have to read it. It has immorality, unfaithfulness, and child "erotic play". I think this book should be in another genre of reading if you understand me......... oh and i couldn't put zero stars so lets give it one

5 out of 17 people found this review helpful.

Best Book I've Read In A While...

This is a great read if you love something that makes you think, and makes you reflect on the ideals of society. I feel this book was written ahead of it's time, and a lot of the messages in it are timeless...A great read for the intellectual.

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Beware of terrible editing...

You can find reviews of the story itself elsewhere. I want to elaborate on the bad electronic tranfer from print. Examples include no paragraph indents, incorrect spelling, incomprehendible sentences, and other annoyances. 5 stars for the story, but the lack of proper formatting/editing was truly frustrating to me- although I could see some readers not minding at all, the problems occur throughout the entire book. I will be suspicous of Rosettabooks publishing in the future.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

incredibly thorough and insanely brilliant

This book was simply marvelous. Alous Huxley certainly manages to create a world of his own and embellishes it with deep thought and distopian possibilities of any society. This book is highly recommended in my eyes and is a top-notch read! Wonderful, you will not regret reading this!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Good book, sloppy ocr.

I'm sure there are plenty of other reviews about the book itself... this copy is full of ocr issues though from when it was scanned to ebook. Poor proofreading... page 78 has a random "BraveNewWorld78" midsentence. Makes me wonder if people even read the ebook releases before publishing them.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

worst book ive ever read

This is absolutely one of the worst books out there. The author is seriously gone mad, and his world created in the novel is insane. People take 'soma' or drugs to get happy and solve problems. Is that something to read about? What a stupid book.

2 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

Not a page turner yet interesting

I am glad that I read this book because it makes you think. It is not a page turner though but at the end it will make you think. I wouldn't recommend this to a friend because it kind of drags. If you like classics like I do there are much better ones you could read.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is not a usual book!

I am totally surpriced by the Author, eventhough he wrote this book long long time ago , all the things that is in the book is very likely will happen in our life right now! .. look at all the people want to control this world : for example, people try to control the edcation . By doing that, people get less brain excises so that they don't think that much as before. Those who want to control the world can have more chance to accomplish their evel dream. Anyways.. This is a very good book.. you sure you want to read it.... COOL!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

A Unique and Interesting Book

This book, although confusing at first, is an interesting read that is vastly different from most books you will read. It takes place around 600 years in the future, “After Ford” era, in London. Humans in the book are made in a lab that produces test tubes that give birth to nearly identical humans. The babies that are made are then put into classes to social condition them. An example of this is that the babies are violently made to think flowers and books are bad. They are than put into a strict caste system. The highest caste being the Alpha-Plus. One of the members is Bernard Marx, a psychologist, who is unlike everyone both physically and mentally. He is short, due to an error in his embryo stage, and acts unorthodox compared to the conformity of the nearly identical humans. Bernard meets a girl named Lenina, whom he has feelings, although she has dated a man named Henry. Later Bernard goes on a trip with Lenina to a place called the “Savage Reservation”, in New Mexico. This is a Native American reservation, where they meet John, also called “The Savage”¸and his mom Linda. They go back to London, to find out that the D.H.C., one of the leaders, wants to banish him to Iceland. Also, while they were there they found out that the D.H.C was named Tomakin, and is John’s father. During this time Linda is taking a lot of a popular drug in this book called soma. She begins to die, and when she does John becomes angry. To make him even madder Lenina tries to seduce him, because in this book the humans are socially conditioned to crave sex a lot. A riot breaks out with the Delta caste, and John ends up whipping her. This arouses the crowd and it turns into a sexual convention. I don’t want to spoil the ending, but I will say that it is well written and a little shocking. The major theme is the author’s prediction of the future, but sex and Shakespearean allusions show up constantly. It also conveys that people shouldn’t conform to others, but be themselves no matter the consequences. This is very apparent in the character of Bernard. What I liked about this book is that it is a very creative idea, unlike any other, making it very interesting. It is also very well written, especially for an older book. I also liked how it plenty of action, some twists and turns, and a little romance. What I didn’t like was that at first the concept of creating humans in a lab, and making them think a certain way was very hard for me to wrap my head around. People should read this if they like unique, or science fiction books. You may also like if you like a good action book. I want to read another work similar to this, which is 1984 by George Orwell. Overall it gets a 4.8 out of 5.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

A must read!

Brave New World is frightening because it could very well come to pass. So many of the situations depicted in the book are close at hand. The fact that the inhabitants of this New World can escape through a drug called Soma is true today. This book used to be required reading in schools.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Fantastic!

Similar to 1984, yet a bit of an easier read. We read the first two chapters in a class, and I loved it so I bought the book. It truly is a classic.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Must Read!

I love this book. That is all.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

If you like science fiction you must read Brave New World, You will never forgive yourself if you dont .

I am glad that I read this book because it makes you think. It is not a page turner though but at the end it will make you think.I am totally surpriced by the Author, even though he wrote this book like a long long time ago this things are probley gonna happen ... look at all the people that want control and they get no education. The novel is set in the A.F. 632, almost seven centuries after the twentieth century. A.F. stands for the year of Ford and World Controllers rule the world and ensure the stability of society through the creation of a five-tiered caste system. Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and members of every caste receive rations of the drug. Pre- and post-natal conditioning further ensures social stability. its a good book read it !!!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Against My Beliefs

While reading this book I couldn't believe the topics that were discussed. The problems that are bought to the table make you think seriously about our society's problems, but as a Christian and a memeber of society, i have been brought up to be against these kinds of ideas. After reading about Huxley's life I began to understand where it came from, but a man like that would probably be institutionalized at this point in time. This is defiantly not highschool reading material!

1 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Fun read

Huxley does a great job creating his futuristic world making this book fun to read.

After reading Brave New World by Alodous Huxley and seeing the w

After reading Brave New World by Alodous Huxley and seeing the world that he created in this novel was extemely eye opening and interesting. Huxley's vision of a society that is designed to be genetically passive through the use of a drug called soma is very different from anything i have ever read and makes you wonder what could be in the future for our society. I thought that as i read the book it progressively got worse, but never to the point where i wanted to completely stop reading it. John, one of the main characters in Brave New World, was personally my favorite character throughout the novel. John refused to take soma, the drug used in this future scoiety, becuase he thought it was wrong and wanted to live a life of "freedom", without the use of soma. Brave New World is a book that is very readable and anyone who sincerely enjoys reading would be missing out on a tremendous overall novel by not reading Brave New World.