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The quality is great, packaging was good, publisher was vintage and the book cover and pages quality is also good. It also has introduction by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Besides that the book is obviously a must read.

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Balkar singh

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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 July 2021

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Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World details a utopian society that surprisingly has very close parallels with the present day. The reliance on drugs to improve moods, genetic engineering practices, divisions between the social classes, and the struggle to maintain social stability all hold true in the present day despite Huxley’s novel being published in the 1930s. Although The World State is depicted to be a perfect place with access to the most advanced technology to keep society in order, this world is far from it.
Throughout Brave New World, we see the protagonist Bernard grapple with these ideas in addition to developing himself as a member of the World State. We also see that later in the novel, the location changes to the Savage Reservation where it is less technologically advanced but has a greater emphasis on building relationships, creativity, and individuality. This could easily be seen through John the savage.
I personally liked this book but compared to the other dystopian novels I have read, this is not one of my favorites. To me, this book was rather confusing and hard to follow because of its structure and sometimes its language. I did however enjoy how the novel detailed the World State’s shortcomings which made a clear shift between that society’s appearance as a utopia to an outsider and a dystopia to those who are living within it. I also liked that John became one of the main focuses considering that he was made out to be uncivilized when he was first introduced but later on, readers could see where he was coming from. Overall, Brave New World does an excellent job of describing the implications of a near-perfect society and sheds light on the contrasts between two vastly different settings.

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Ankur

This book is equally good if not better than Orwell's 1984. Highly recommended.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 20 July 2018

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Aldous Huxley has depicted a dystopian world in this book where children are no longer born naturally and are rather genetically engineered and grown in decanters. Every child born has a predestined caste depending upon the conditioning of its decanted embryo. The residents of the world state are segregated into alphas, bravos, gammas, deltas and epsilons with alphas being the highest in the degree of precedence and epsilons being the lowest.

A decanted embryo is raised according to the caste it is predestined to born into. Alphas are breeded to be intellectuals and have excellent physical and mental conditioning whereas epsilons are conditioned to have stunted growth and low IQ so as to perform menial jobs. Once a child is born from the embryo , it is made to undergo a training program wherein it's reactions to various stimuli is engineered depending upon its caste and future job role. The juveniles are exposed to hypnopaedic learning or sleep teaching and also encouraged to perform erotic play to encourage promiscuity.

In the world state, there is no concept of religion, family or marriage. Women are born freemartins and don't give birth. All the residents are non- chastate and are promiscuous ("Everyone belongs to everyone else"). The world is depicted as technologically advanced where everyone commutes in a helicopter and residents are secure from all diseases and worries. They are kept in a false state of happiness with sex, drugs and music.

The residents of the world are conditioned not to question their existence or have an opinion on things. There are no history books or literature available to them. 'Soma' is a magical drug which removes their worries, anger and frustration and calms them. The drug is rationed to all the residents and they all are shown as its slave. The world depicted in the story shows no struggle for the residents and all of them are kept in a false state of happiness. Terms like vibro vacuum massage, sec hormone chewing gum and feelies ( movies where you feel all sensations) are a part of the false utopian world of the residents.

Other than the residents of the state world, there also exists 'savage' reservations. There is no specific protagonist in the story. There are various characters like Bernard Marx, Lenina, Helmholtz, John (savage), Linda ,Mustafa Mond etc. The story takes Bernard and Lenina to a savage reservation in Mexico where they meet John and Linda and bring them along to their world in London. The rest of the novel involves the Savage's point of view and his feeling with respect to the so called utopian world. The story with a few turn of events change the Savage's perception of the world completely.

The book is an excellent read. This book is equally good if not better than Orwell's 1984. Highly recommended.

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Shahjad Khan

Superb Book.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 25 August 2019

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The book most frequently compared to and contrasted with George Orwell’s dystopian 1984. Huxley’s take on dystopia is an anti-utopia centered around the cult of Henry Ford. While the premise is decent, the over the top caricature of Fordian society as the opposite of what is Huxley’s sense of morality does reduce the overall impact and the result is no where as haunting as 1984’s Big Brother. The book is short enough to finish in a couple of sittings and it is probably best to finish it quickly as I found it difficult to read when stretched out. Would recommend.

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Saiyam Dhamija

Must read.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 31 May 2018

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If you love books about the dystopian future, you're gonna love this one. Dystopian future is my favourite genre and this book is my favourite book till now. It's portrayal of the modern world is just amazing. Which cannot be compared to books like ' Fahrenheit 451' or '1984'. This book is a must read if you like science fiction. Must read.

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Are we fit to review works of Huxley?

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 16 July 2021

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Williams

Based on indian Castecism.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 8 April 2018

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I read this 3 year ago now I know how worth reading this. One of the great novel after 1984 novel. Thanks to amazon.
I would have got this book from no where but from you, because of book shops don't keep this book.
As of its adult basic book.
Need an adult and mature mind to read it.
Not Childish mind.

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Mayukh Chakraborty

A choice of renouncing our freedom for the sake of happiness and bliss

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 26 July 2018

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A thought provoking dystopian novel set in far future is a must read for all futuristic novel fans. Deals quite right with modern times it raises a dep question of freedom and security. A choice of renouncing our freedom for the sake of happiness and bliss. Are you going in the right direction?

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