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[twunny]

I'm overwhelmed by the urge to do nothing but review this book by comparison. So I'll get that out of the way.

I didn't like it as much as "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Unlike with Orwell, The, uh...hero(?) was not someone I could get behind at all. He was inconsistent, and seemed like an afterthought to the description of the world. The, uh...other hero(?) wasn't introduced until over halfway through the book, and was just confused and confusing.

And the second character was reminiscent of "Stranger in a Strange Land." But Heinlein's stranger was more fleshed out, and his satire was better because it was more based in reality than hypothesis.

However, "Brave New World" was a fun read. When I had time to read it, I was moving right along. Great ideas, and some pretty language, just very little cohesion. I liked the Shakespeare references, right up until they got annoying. Which took longer than I would have thought.

A must-read only if you make it so. I suppose important, especially for it's influence on later, better things.
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[galactic_dev]

Brave New World is the book I love to hate. I blame it not only for being poor literature, but I blame it also for riling up techno-paranoia towards genetic engineering, by getting people to conflate genetic engineering with a fascist political system.