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Brave New World -
February 20th 2011, 11:58 PM
I'm reading this book for school. I really love it. I'm not sure why.
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February 21st 2011, 11:39 PM
AHHHHHHHH, BNW!
I think it's fantastic. It doesn't make the list of books I love (The Awakening, A Separate Peace, Flowers for Algernon, Atlas Shrugged...), but I would absolutely not mind reading it again, several times. (I should add it to my already too-long reading list...) The attraction to it is always, I feel, somewhat inexplicable. The writing isn't particularly stirring or lucid, and I am absolutely terrified of everything that happens in it. I think it's just the ideas contained within that fantastic; Huxley was really quite a man. To me, the novel is essentially a proclamation of the absolute importance and power of a free, uncontrolled mind; I think I like it so much because I feel that my mind is the most important thing I own. Why do you think you like it? "Want to know a secret?
You are beautiful. Black, white, gay, straight, bisexual. Whether you are smart or quiet or impossibly in love with your best friend, someone out there cherishes your smile and gets butterflies when you walk into a room. Someone out there can't stop thinking about you. You Are Beautiful. Don't ever believe differently." If you ever want someone to talk to, about absolutely anything, feel free to inbox me!  |
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Re: Brave New World -
February 21st 2011, 11:52 PM
I really wanna read this. I was on StumbleUpon once, and I found a webpage that had the entire book laid out to read.
 It was kinda weird. I would have bookmarked it, but I think staring at a screen for that long would make me go blind. 
"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it." |
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Re: Brave New World -
February 22nd 2011, 02:54 AM
I think it is good, but the ending is completely rushed. It's like the author got bored and just wrote the ending all of a sudden out of desperation.
1984, Fahrenheit 451 and other dystopian novels are far better to me. Huxley seems to have had a good idea, but has expressed it pretty poorly. |
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February 22nd 2011, 02:56 AM
As I said. I don't like it for its literary merit.
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Re: Brave New World -
February 24th 2011, 08:32 AM
I read it last year, and I actually quite enjoyed it. It's not something I'd rush out and read again, but I'm glad I did read it. I also thought the ending was a little rushed, clumsy even, but overall the book was good (the ideas more than the writing, probably).
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Re: Brave New World -
February 24th 2011, 01:27 PM
It's the only book I ever truly ENJOYED reading for Lit.
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