A review by maartje_volder
Brave New World by Dieter Hamblock, Aldous Huxley

5.0

I loved this book. Just the right amount of drama, just the right amount of different from an ordinary life. It is well balanced and just drew me in from the first educational page. Technology and rationality at your service.

Considering the book is from 1932, many of it's theme's are very relevant for todays day and age. It still feels like an option that the future could be like this. Near the end of the book it does grasp onto religion and it's meaning, but it is bound to happen.

The way conditioning, cloning, and drugs are implemented in this story is very well done. Especially considering that these theme's were part of revolutionary research at the time. It seems that Huxley worried and wondered what the future would bring, how this new knowledge would influence us all.

The book is written from a view of the masses, from what society sees as normal. But this society is far from our own. I really liked how Huxley was able to immerse himself (and in turn the reader) into this utopia/dystopia world. I do feel that he does his best to leave you with a bad feeling in the end, but some aspect of the book seem lovely (now go read the book and take a shot every time somebody says an sentence they learned in their conditioning)