Imagine such a creature – motherless at a young age, brought up in a household of true socialists, who are using their money to better their fellow man and who really truly cannot see the value of a set of evening clothes. Think of the romantics…think in particular of Shelley, but give him blonder curls… In fact, Sebastian is not so much 'handsome' as 'pretty'. Sebastian Barnack is (according to the blurb) a handsome English schoolboy…on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle. I can roughly explain the plot, I can share some insights that the book is meant to impart, but was it time well-wasted? No, sorry, not for me.
I struggled on to the end, but cannot say that I have gained a thing from having read it. To put it simply: Time Must Have A Stop defeated me. I skipped passages where I gave up struggling. He loads his books with them and forces the reader – who is not quite so well read, or so well versed in languages, who has (as my English teacher used to say) not had the benefit of a classical education – to struggle, or to skip. Huxley wears his academic credentials heavily.
#A BRAVE NEW WORLD BOOK RAGS CODE#
Yes, I know that "accessible" is code for "less intellectual" but I make no bones about it. Having just completed the second of the three I committed to reading, I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the reason most of us have only read Brave New World might just be because it is the only one that is remotely "accessible" to the average reader. I seem to remember reading and actually enjoying the classic Brave New World and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvre.
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Sometimes we start reading "authors" as opposed to specific books, because we feel we should.
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