Brave New World

I have heard of this book by Aldous Huxley for a long time, but I decided to pick it up now to see what it’s about. Honestly, it feels like a more toned down and goofy version of 1984. Most of the time while reading I had no idea what the plot of Brave New World was. It just felt like the characters doing things, and I didn’t feel like I learned much about methods of government control that 1984 didn’t already teach me. Also everything having to do with kids in Brave New World was really freaky, and I have no idea what point Huxley was trying to make with it.  I never want to hear ‘erotic play’ and ‘children’ in the same sentence, and that’s all I’ll say. I did think the genetic engineering of humans aspect of this book was interesting, though I wish it had gone deeper into specific topics like these.

Anyways, I find it unfortunate that I don’t have much thoughts about this book. I wasn’t hoping for it to cover everything 1984 did, especially because Brave New World was published first, but I wish I could have taken away something new from it. 

Update: I guess this gets a 5/10, for being goofy but confusing.