Worst Book I ever read in my entire life.

[zerorevenge]

I don't think i've hated any book more so than Brave New World.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_WorldRead more... )

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[konami]

Dystopian fiction is used as a bullet-line far too much. How many times a week do I hear the world is going to 1984? It's a book people!!

[polaris93]

Just curious as to why you hated Brave New World. I read it when I was 15 or so, and found it rather tedious in places, not at all like 1984, which is one of the world's premier horror-stories, and which I've read and re-read over and over down the years. But Huxley's work, unlike Orwell's, is a little too mannered for my taste, which is odd, because I love ragtime, one of the most formalized and tightly constrained musical genres that has ever existed, and am not big on Heavy Metal, which is a great deal less constrained and more free-form. Anyway, I also found Slaughterhouse Five / Schlachtenhaus Funf too didactic, heavy on politicization and not all that big on story -- in fact, the one and only thing of his I have ever liked was The Sirens of Titan, which I read when I was 15 (and the level of humor in that novel was just right for someone my age). I had to read The Catcher in the Rye for a class in high school, which made it totally unpalatable; if I'd gone back and read it later, I might have liked it (I had the same

[zerorevenge]

I too read it when I was 15. I didn't like because of the setting. I didn't like that the world ended up in such as way, and John the Savage ended up killing himself at the end. I wasn't big into politics at all [In fact, at that time of my life, I was a big Soviet Russia fan. Stupid, I know. Ironic too], and just the condition of the world, with the hierarchies, and people just walking zombies, all addicted to the Soma-drug, and their only activity was mindless sex orgies. How the government ran everything. It made my stomach sick

[polaris93]

I didn't like [Brave New World] because of the setting. I didn't like that the world ended up in such as way, and John the Savage ended up killing himself at the end. I wasn't big into politics at all . . ., and just the condition of the world, with the hierarchies, and people just walking zombies, all addicted to the Soma-drug, and their only activity was mindless sex orgies. How the government ran everything. It made my stomach sick. So, it wasn't that it was poorly written, it was a total turn-off for the story and setting itself. That, and I hate to read it for High School Junior-Grade English 3, who I had a TOTAL BITCH for a teacher.

Huxley isn't the world's greatest science-fiction writer. Au contraire. He was using the story as a vehicle for a message about social and political phenomena as he saw them in his day rather than just trying to write excellent fiction, with results pretty much as you describe: a mixed bag of ideas that didn't quite come off, and would have been better presented in a non-fiction essay or

[zerorevenge]

Thankfully, I never had to read that.

[zerorevenge]

Now I haven't read that book myself, but the concept of it intrigued me.

...Okay, it's because I saw Extraordinary League of Gentlemen. LOL.

[zerorevenge]

Oh God. That's right. I forgot about that. .__."