Brave new world

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Aldous Huxley: Brave new world (1932, Doubleday, Dovan & Co)

lingua English

Pubblicato il 08 Novembre 1932 da Doubleday, Dovan & Co.

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Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. - Container.

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Sofri de CED, "Criei Expectativas Demais"

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Esse livro é um clássico do gênero ficção científica distópica, e já em 1932 já previa algumas desgraças em nome do progresso científico. Aliás, se tem uma coisa em que o livro acerta, é na crítica implícita (ou até mesmo explícita) sobre ciência e o progresso obstinado. O dilema moral principal do livro, escrito mesmo antes da Segunda Guerra ou da ameaça de caos nuclear da Guerra Fria, é: ser livre e sofrer, mas poder apreciar a arte e a liberdade e tudo o que implica, ou ser condicionado, manipulado e viver em uma sociedade de castas, mas sem sofrimento e uma vida relativamente digna e feliz (mesmo considerando as castas)?

Na minha opinião, esse dilema moral é realmente interessante e se prova atual mesmo 92 anos após o lançamento do livro. O que eu não gostei foi:

1) A narrativa: achei chata, não me interessou, os personagens não são …

A bit too "on-the-nose"

3 stelle

I guess it might be the point of the book, but I couldn't feel that any character was real, everything felt stereotypical; while at the same time that "prediction" of the future does not seem plausible to me.

And I repeat, it might be the point of the book, so, if that is the case, then great job. I just did not enjoy it or gained any interesting insight.

Another Authoritarianism dystopian classic. A difficult read however.

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Read this immediately afte reading the Orwell classic, 1984. I admit, I struggled reading this book. The method of story telling, with the switching of character perspective was difficult to follow. The idea of the book became far more clearer as the book progressed and became clear especially towards the end.

However the ideas presented in the book and their demonstration was thought provoking.

Review of 'Brave New World' on 'Goodreads'

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There is much to be learned from reading this book and it is easy to forget that it was written early in the last century, not this one. Sadly, the warnings Huxley offers about what society was becoming were largely ignored and we've come to a society that so closely mirrors his "civilization" that it could have been a metaphor about our current state of affairs written by a contemporary author.

It is a very short novel but full of warnings and lessons that are as applicable, or even more so, today as they were in 1930. It is a lesson in mass manipulation by the media and big pharma. It is a lesson in treating people ultimately as mere resource rather than persons. And it is a lesson in extremes, extreme pain v. extreme pleasure and the wrongheadedness in submitting to either.

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