In the end, the wowness and importance of the novel's ideas as well as the segments that I thoroughly enjoyed carried the book to a strong 3.5 star rating. I need to parse my rating of this book into the good (or great), the bad and the very fugly because I thought aspects of it were inspired genius and parts of it were dreggy, boring and living near the border of awful. Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.more A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasure of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasure of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an i Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.
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