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Excellent book, I would rate this a 4.5/5. Just a warning my review and thoughts are completely unedited lol. So it's very messy and may just not make sense…sorry not sorry lmao. I would like to say comparing this to 1984…this is more similar to our world.
For a book written in 1931…wow i genuinely felt as if i was in the future. To the extent of the date this was written and published i am lol. As my usual book reviews go, I like putting in quotes from the book. Before however I'd like to say the reason this is not a 5/5 for me. The mid section of this book just was just…uninteresting compared to the beginning and end. Perhaps not interesting, just not as. I like to judge a book based on how many times i put it down to take a “break”. I found myself doing this continuously...although it was still enjoyable and interesting to read. Which is why I still rated it high. “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
In this world there is no religion, no true freedom or danger. How can you be truly free if your thoughts and dreams are locked away by soma or simply inaccessible? When i say inaccessible i mean the delta and lower status of people who can not even from the thoughts they may have otherwise been able due to the modifying in early stages of life. Are they even humans with souls? To be honest for a second I wondered to myself if perhaps a world with no pain, war and even simple distress is worth living in. The people truly wanted to be there..maybe it is the perfect place to be. It was so perfect it got to the point where a god is unnecessary. A question I thought to myself was if God truly gets further away with the development of technology and so on, At one point will God cease to interact with us. Maybe we are at that point already. (Mustapha Mond spoke of this in the book) Also random but the sheer self control that John had when Lenina approached him for sex…undressed. I was surprised when he denied it. I got deja vu of Joseph from the bible. I know Bernard is the main character but I genuinely did not like him. I'm not sure if I was supposed to but in my head he was an attention hungry, disloyal and cowardly man.
I'll stop talking now but I liked the book.
Some other quotes without my ramble. You can understand without my gibberish lol
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“Ending is better than mending.”
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
Excellent book, I would rate this a 4.5/5. Just a warning my review and thoughts are completely unedited lol. So it's very messy and may just not make sense…sorry not sorry lmao. I would like to say comparing this to 1984…this is more similar to our world.
For a book written in 1931…wow i genuinely felt as if i was in the future. To the extent of the date this was written and published i am lol. As my usual book reviews go, I like putting in quotes from the book. Before however I'd like to say the reason this is not a 5/5 for me. The mid section of this book just was just…uninteresting compared to the beginning and end. Perhaps not interesting, just not as. I like to judge a book based on how many times i put it down to take a “break”. I found myself doing this continuously...although it was still enjoyable and interesting to read. Which is why I still rated it high. “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
In this world there is no religion, no true freedom or danger. How can you be truly free if your thoughts and dreams are locked away by soma or simply inaccessible? When i say inaccessible i mean the delta and lower status of people who can not even from the thoughts they may have otherwise been able due to the modifying in early stages of life. Are they even humans with souls? To be honest for a second I wondered to myself if perhaps a world with no pain, war and even simple distress is worth living in. The people truly wanted to be there..maybe it is the perfect place to be. It was so perfect it got to the point where a god is unnecessary. A question I thought to myself was if God truly gets further away with the development of technology and so on, At one point will God cease to interact with us. Maybe we are at that point already. (Mustapha Mond spoke of this in the book) Also random but the sheer self control that John had when Lenina approached him for sex…undressed. I was surprised when he denied it. I got deja vu of Joseph from the bible. I know Bernard is the main character but I genuinely did not like him. I'm not sure if I was supposed to but in my head he was an attention hungry, disloyal and cowardly man.
I'll stop talking now but I liked the book.
Some other quotes without my ramble. You can understand without my gibberish lol
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“Ending is better than mending.”
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”