Sound Library: Brave New World Lib/E (Edition 75) (CD-Audio)

from dakobstah

This is one of my all-time favorite books. I was blown away by the amount of foresight that Huxley possessed. He was able to see not only futuristic scientific possibilities such as helicopters, genetically constructed humans, and something akin to anti-depressants but he was also able to see fut...

from baswood

Community Identity Stability No leisure from pleasure Was and will make me ill Ending is better than mending When the individual feels the community reels Just some of the slogans from Huxley's dystopian consumer society, from his Brave New World. Written in 1931 it was a huge leap forward from e...

from LisaMaria_C

I was struck on my recent science-fiction reading binge, how quickly that genre dates. With Brave New World I checked and rechecked the copyright date (1932) with disbelief, given it has television as a cultural force, (checking the Wiki, it says television was commercially available since the la...

from GlenRH

It has been about 40 years since I had to read this for a high school literature class. I am still amazed that it has the impact it had then. People still seems to value security to the point they give up willingly freedom. It is a sad reflection on how many people cannot see what it is they give...

from E_Morgan_Huhn

I read this following the Spring Semester of 2023, on vacation in El Salvador. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the message behind it - and the introduction to this (the 33rd printing) poses an interesting questions about the duality of the ending, speculating that there could have been alterna...