Rate This Book: Brave New World

I give it a 9/10, it was a great book.

I'll give it a 7.5/10. I enjoyed it, but I read it right after I read 1984, which I enjoyed a whole lot more, so that kind of killed it. It probably would've been an 8 if I read it any other time.

10/10, One of my favorite books of all time.

inb4 Theokhoth :P

From what I remember it was an alright book, nothing really special.

pretty good/10

Ass/10.

That book was so pretentious and so horribly executed that I just couldn't stand any more after a hundred pages. It's insanely overrated.

inb4 Theokhoth :P

Nagru

I tried to get into it three times but just couldn't.

uhh i read it earlier this summer for summer reading...I got confused about half way through the book. I know that in the end bernard hangs himself but the whole middle part was confusingStanley09

Actually, that was John AKA The Savage.

if youre looking for a good dystopian novel I highly recommend We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

I was reading it in school at one point, but never finished it. D:

[QUOTE="Stanley09"]uhh i read it earlier this summer for summer reading...I got confused about half way through the book. I know that in the end bernard hangs himself but the whole middle part was confusingmetroidprime55

Actually, that was John AKA The Savage.

10/10, great book....I actually think its underrated, but to each his own I guess.

I give it an 8/10. I really enjoyed it. Just finished it last month.

if youre looking for a good dystopian novel I highly recommend We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

mrbojangles25

yes! another one of my favorites

I've never read it, but it got an Iron Maiden album named after it so it's obviously the greatest book of all time.

10/10. I urged anyone who doesn't really like it or likes 1984 (which I still love) more to discuss the themes of this book with a friend. You will find that society is gravitating towards this sort of world. 1984 might be more interesting because its "evil" is the upper class (or some form of it) but brave new world is a better representation, in my view, of what unethical application of science can result in: a world restricted by excessive and free sex, drugs, mindlessness, without any progression or "truth/beauty" as the book calls it. No sin/"wrong doing"=no consequences for ones destructive or worthless actions. Thats why one of my favorite quotes of all times is: "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." Brave New World is truly a vision of the future.

Bernard should have been the main character and not John/10.PannicAtack

Bernard was a much more interesting character. Sure, John has all the quotes and speeches, but I was more interested in Bernard. He was an insider who was different from the others, I got the feeling he knew something wasn't right about the world he lived in, and I wanted to see him make that discovery.

Also didn't help that the first half of the book focused on him, and then just let him go by the wayside. I felt cheated.

Also didn't help that the first half of the book focused on him, and then just let him go by the wayside. I felt cheated.

PannicAtack

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Also didn't help that the first half of the book focused on him, and then just let him go by the wayside. I felt cheated.

lakersfan576

The themelakersfan576

I give it a 9/10 for quality. It was one of the texts we had to analyse for English in my final year of school, so I still know a lot from it.

We had to compare it to the Blade Runner film as a look at how different mediums convey the came message. We spent about a month on each text

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[QUOTE="Brozekial"][QUOTE="lakersfan576"]The themePannicAtack