Author: Aldous Huxley
Published: 1931
Language: English
Pages: 229
Rating: 3/5
"Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress..."
I was really excited to read this, especially since a acquaintance recommended it to me. He was really praising it, talking about how it set him to think about our ideologies etcetera. The book started of and it really grabbed me but as it went on it let me go. The story got a little bit boring in my personal opinion, it was really slow-paced.
I also had a bit of a problem with Huxley's writing style. At one point in the book I was really enjoying it, he mentioned some beautiful quotes like: “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”. But at other points I was just confused because of the way he switched from one character to another.
My rating is definitely based on how much I enjoyed reading this book. Than again, now I think about it. Was this book designed to be a enjoyable? This book made me feel annoyed, disgusted and made me really think about 'a perfect world/society'. Is it possible for a world where everybody is happy and living for each other to be wrong?
