I Couldn't Put It Down

A Brave New World was definitely a bizarre and distinct book compared to Where Good Ideas Come From and Amusing Ourselves to Death; in fact, the book was so unique from the others that I had to reread the first page of the book to make sure I was understanding that Huxley was describing a factory manufacturing human babies! As I read the book, I often stopped and thought about what I had read and how crazy the scene was. For example, the scenes of the "orgy porgy" and John whipping himself were startling. Huxley's description of society's moral and ethical beliefs and the plot line of the story were shocking. I began rooting for Bernard and John and often became sickened by Lenina and Huxley's futuristic society. Although his society had many differences to our current society like choosing to avoid the past and authors like Shakespeare, there were many similarities like desiring happiness. For these reasons, I found this novel to be my favorite and the most craziest of the three books. Because the novel was very weird and foreign to me, A Brave New World became a book I couldn't put down.