Anyone read Brave New World?
By Aldous Huxley.
I just finished it myself. What did you think?
Bodies Without Organs
22-02-2005, 04:07
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=399710
That's funny - there's already an attempt at a discussion of it started today, not a particularly lively one, by any stretch of the imagination though.
EDIT: as far as I understand it, links of the kind displayed in your sig are not looked upon favourably by the mods here. Word to the wise...
Freebeez
22-02-2005, 04:09
:fluffle: I read it 37 years ago in high school, and it really p---d off my parents because of all the sex! I loved it, although I would NOT like to see it become reality. College in the late 60's/early 70's was close enough!
Bryanoptia
22-02-2005, 04:13
i red it this summer 4 honnors english and 1984 (which is other good book)
Read it twice in the past. Better world then the one in 1984.
Bryanoptia
22-02-2005, 04:22
both of them scared me and made me sad cause of both the endings
Too bad, so sad, about the other post.
I actually wanted to read "We".
But, anyway, seven year olds having sex and 'erotic play' was pretty weird.
Of course, it doesn't help that now I use 'Ford' and 'pneumatic' in everyday speech.
But, with the present world, I think that it is more plausible for Brave New World to occur than 1984.
Bryanoptia
22-02-2005, 04:25
i'd have to say 1984 is more possible since our science is near BNW but not yet and 1984 can happen any time
Pastafaria
22-02-2005, 04:26
Interesting that in each of the threads, We, Brave New World, and 1984 were all mentioned... but not a little book called Jennifer Government. Anybody ever read that one? It's perhaps my own personal favorite dystopian novel.
<joke> That book seems so familiar. </joke>
I'm a bad person. :rolleyes:
I want to get that, but I'm too cheap to buy it
I mean--uh, yeah.
Pantylvania
22-02-2005, 04:34
Other than the part where the 5-year-old boy gets in trouble for stopping a 7-year-old girl from molesting him, I didn't think the world in that book was so bad. What's everyone so worried about?
That's why it is so bad--we are accustomed to it.
Soma holiday? Everyone beloging to everyone else (in several ways) ORGY PORGY FORD AND FUN!
Poedicts
22-02-2005, 04:53
I've read Brave New World twice. The second time shortly after I was hired at Wal-Mart. After a few days training I was amazed at how the late Sam Walton had been deified. His image is in every office, hallway and break-room. Wal-Mart 'associates' are taught to ask themselves "What would Sam do?" Staff meetings end with a Wal-Mart cheer. During training associates repeat Wal-Mart ethics and end with "So help me Sam" The whole experience put me in mind of the Ford worship in B.N.W.
Wait!
They actually say, "So help me Sam,"?
That's just not Fordly.