Thursday, March 10, 2011

Book Review

What if we were made to think and do things a certain way. What if we weren’t individuals that we were all the same? In the book Brave New World, that’s what it is like. Aldous Huxley explains what the world would be like.
The book takes place in 632 A.F. (After Ford) In this world people are conditioned to do things a certain way, and think a certain way. People don’t have babies; they have sex with whoever they want, and they are always happy.
This book is a banned book, and the reason I think it is banned is because it has a lot of opinion in it. This book can be compared to today a lot. When I read this book I thought it was funny how much this stuff is going on in our world. Though this book was written in the 1930’s. When we see how our world is going in technology, and with the drugs people can take, and how people don’t turn to religion as much anymore, we are becoming this world.
In this book there are a lot of different characters that are like people we may know today. My favorite character though would have to be Lenina. She was the crazy one in this world. I have a lot in common with Lenina, and I think that’s why I liked her so much. Though I didn’t really like the book, I liked her. She was the reason I keep on reading.
I would recommend this book to people. It wasn’t one of those books that were good cause of its plot. It was one of those books that keep you reading because it was weird and messed up.