This is one of my first dips into Dystopian literature. It's intricately crafted with lots of facets of human nature, society, and worth shoved in. Makes you think about a lot of the more difficult questions in life. Is also a little too disturbing in places to fully enjoy, but I have no doubt that that's the point. Would recommend this, but with caution.

Brave New World (a book I own) is a view of a world taken by the Left, a world where religion has been overtaken by science; a perverse, singularly cold world where humans have been “freed” from conventions and norms (sexual and behavioral); a society encroached by an almighty, overreaching government. Albeit in George Orwell’s “1984” the government, Ingsoc (English Socialism), shapes a dark, brutal society, and in BNW it furnishes a mock religion, drugs and sex in order to make the emptiness of society palatable and working bearable (panem et circenses comes to mind), both societies have in common the fact that they are a product of leftwing (i.e., controlling) governments. Nothing could be farther from Conservatism and Capitalism; nothing could be closer to Liberalism and socialism. Interestingly the names of many of the characters are those of known communists/socialists: Bernard, Marx, Bakunin, Engels, Lenin(a), Benito, Trotsky, Engels. This book is a clear exposé of socialism. Anyone who would like to understand what socialism or communism is, should read this book and the following: 1984, The Gulag Archipelago, Animal Farm, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. (Criticism of someone else’s review, always strikes me as lack of originality. And citing a wackjob really gives one credibility... yup!)

http://www.huxley.net/studyaid/bnwbarron.html Don't comment and tag on the book if you didn't read it. The Brave New World does not replace religion with science: it keeps religion in tact but venerates Henry Ford as a once-living, now-metaphysical representation of industry. The entire New World is based on Ford's assembly-line mechanics. This is very simple, it's in the book plain as day. The castes of betas, gammas, etc are both representational of social classes and the stratified work-places of capitalism. If you actually knew what Leftist positions were, you'd know that the Left argues and enacts the dissolving of these conditions and the direct ownership of the means of production by workers, which is of course NOT the case in Huxley's dystopia. Interestingly, some people mention that some characters are named after famous "communists/socialists", yet they either choose to ignore or had no idea that the same characters had names of famous capitalists, fascists (did someone seriously call Mussolini a -communist-?! lol) and other famous people. Huxley's point with this was that the names didn't mean anything to these people: the names were cut off from their origin just as human beings were cut off from their origin, being instead living organisms, instead of the commodities for and consumers of capitalist production. This is the world we live in now- soma is force fed to us. This is what makes Brave New World the greater dystopian novel. And, sorry, George Orwell was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, who, like most other Leftists, was anti-totalitarian, which is the real position behind Animal Farm and 1984.

There's a reason this one's a classic, absolutely brilliant.

Something to think about: a society kept in order by a constant state of shallow happiness where people are conditioned to be content with their class because they're incapable of understanding anything different. More a thinking exercise than a story.

Brave New World is nothing short of brilliant. While many hold up 1984 as the definitive dystopian novel, I respectfully disagree. Orwell created a house of horrors more relevant to the wide-spread fear of totalitarianism when 1984 was written. However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the mass-consumption, mass-media culture full of glitzy ads and airbrushed models all promising a good time, the future predicted in Brave New World has become incredibly apposite to our modern times. It is a book that everyone should read.

Brave New World is an excellent novel that leaves the reader wondering about our society's future.

This book will open your eyes on how the the society works and what is used to control the people

It's a very interesting book, but confusing the first few chapters. Overall, Huxley did a good job with wide vocabulary and portraying the possible outcome of the future. But it was fun to read even though it made my head hurt =/

Excellent book, scary. But so well written.