Island by Aldous Huxley

[imported_shiola]

OK, he maybe one of the great novelists of our time, etc but this book bored me to tears. I actually didn't finish it. I couldn't. This is the first time I have not finished a book, I felt bad because I had got nearly all the way through it, but I just didn't care how it finished.

There's basically this island that is kind of perfect - it's not communist nor capitalist. It's kind of spiritual, Buddhist, doesn't conform to Western ideals, no rigid family set up, radical education, etc, etc. Anyway, the story is shit and it's just too long. It's Mr Huxley's last novel and it seems to be all his political and social ideas squeezed into one novel before he ends his mortal coil.

There's some really good ideas in it - it should just be a short book called 'Here's Some Good Ideas That We Should Adopt Into Today's Society' - instead he strings it out into some long novel that bores the living shit out of you.

My apologies Aldous as you're probably turning in your grave.

[professor puke]

all i've read of his is brave new world.... which was a cool idea for a book, but i felt no particular attachment to the characters or to huxley's dull, dull, operators manual prose. plus i happen to find injins and injin culture excrutiatingly bland. and the fucking foreword in that book was insane and mostly greek to me......but i guess 1984 wouldn't be the same book had brave new world notbeen written, and that would be a crying shame considering how cool 1984 is. so alls i have to say to aldous is thanks for making a book that kinda was not great, but ended up inspiring a great other book by a better writer


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[dontpanic]

man, brave new world freaked me out. maybe it was the time of life or the state of mind in which i read it, but sheesh...



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