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| Original Title: | Island |
| ISBN: | 0060085495 (ISBN13: 9780060085490) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Will Farnaby |
Aldous Huxley
Paperback | Pages: 354 pages Rating: 3.83 | 23665 Users | 1409 Reviews
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In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.
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| Title | : | Island |
| Author | : | Aldous Huxley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 354 pages |
| Published | : | July 30th 2002 by Harper Perennial Classics (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Philosophy. Dystopia. Literature. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 23665 Users | 1409 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books Island
I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. "Brave New World" is one of my favorite dystopias, so I was excited to see how Huxley tackled a utopia, and to see how his thoughts on society matured between his writing of "Brave New World" and "Island"-- his last novel. I felt the result was slightly disappointing.While all dystopias and utopias are comments on society, and almost all utopia/dystopia authors have an agenda which they would like the reader to come to after reading the work,
Lenin used to say that electricity plus socialism equals communism. Our equations are rather different. Electricity minus heavy industry plus birth control equals democracy and plenty. Electricity plus heavy industry minus birth control equals misery, totalitarianism and war. Aldous Huxleys Pala is a beautiful Solarpunk country. I would love to read stories of its people, their lives, their dramas.But thats not this book.This is a story of beauty about to be raped.Im not in the mood for that.
Ten pages from the end, sitting at a bar, the bartender asked me: "Are you one of those people who reads the last sentence of a book before they start it, to see if it'll live up to your expectations?"Uh, say what? I thought. Is that a common practice? Seriously? "No," I replied, "but I can see it might be kinda interesting." "Yeah," he said, "but it's a pretty big spoiler alert. It can really ruin it."Digesting that bit of logic, I finished the book, my wine, and the bartender brought the
All about Soma which is like all about this totally cool combo of prozac and more psychoactively intense "medications" . . . read it in the passenger seat of a VW Golf driving back east from California after high-school graduation during the First Bush's reign of terror. Think I finished it by Cheyenne. Way enjoyable.
This book was simply unbearable to read. The only reason I slugged through it was out of respect for Huxley and for the occasional snippets of philosophical wisdom I discovered along the way. The theme is pure Huxley: intelligent, open-minded man gets shipwrecked on a remote tropical island where the native population has managed to create a utopia. The man meets a variety of people over a period of days who explain Pala's (the name of the island) unique culture. The story is actually a
Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Did i read this for the plot? Absolutely not. The premise is literally "a guy is stranded on an island and while recoving, he gets a full tour of their lives, economy and, philosophies.Is the writing great? Not really. Brave New World was definitely better.But then why read it? I don't know.I wanted to see what else Huxley has up his sleeves - and I was surprised. So while I struggled through a lot of this and kept checking my pages to see if I was
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