Brave New World

Great or Greatest book ?

Great, certainly.

just great

Better than 1984.

fucking best book I have ever read.

Atlas Shrugged is better

>>6
well of course, I d on't think anything's better than that work of geniuouos :P

It's a fascinating exercise in imagination and theory. It's not a particularly great novel.

>>8
I agree with this guy, as a novel I find it average.
Now, the social theory is the brilliance of it.
At first it seems dystopia lite, compared to 1984, but at the same time it is frightening as much.

I think it is the great temptation about BNW's Offer, a hedonistic, valueless and cultureless society. 1984 offers fear and poverty.
Both 1984 and BNW have a strong grasp on reality but the later managed to capture modern society's spirit better.
Brand New World is tempting, alluring, which is way it's frightening.

It's a great book, though I still prefer 1984 to it.
I find the Savage to be a poor choice for the society critic, perhaps because he was the complete opposite, which makes him quite extreme.

It's great considering that it was written about an issue that barely existed during Huxley's time. The fact that he looked so far ahead into this shit is amazing.

Take away the commentary, however, and the story by itself is kind of unfocused. It's more like Huxley created this world, and then just showed us a bunch of events to explain it. The beginning part (With the students on the tour) explains how the world is run, the middle part (Pre-savage) shows you the lives of everyone in it, and the last part tells you why and how it's wrong.