spectracommunist's reviews
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This connects much plot points from the previous one. I found it especially amazing the way this deals with the situation of a cursed eutrophication of humanity and how the accursed ones were enjoying all those absurdities. This articulation has got no light at the end of the tunnel.

Not only a companion to the Brave New World but it's even a great non-fiction about how our societies gets victimized towards dystopia under psychological techno-dictators. This book explores the concepts of Brave New World, it talks about brain-washing and subliminal injection and how Hitler used these devices in propogandas, also about neo-pavlovian conditioning as applied by commercial brands and religious leaders. It revolves around human-psychology and how herd-corruption takes place.

Amazing thing being, Huxley extrapolated the contents of this entire book just from a single TV interview which he gave being disillusioned about how his fantasy can easily get real soon.

There is a remarkable difference between the book and the adaptation. This book is more humane and revolves around Jack's struggle with alcoholism and it's demons or let's say the family struggle with an alcoholic father, most of the supernatural events are difficult to determine whether they are actual psychic events or just group hallucinations. The backstory of the hotel is really eventful since it is associated with all the corrupt vices in the history of America and it's seamless juxtaposition with Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death', that is one of the inspiration for the book and second thing being Stephen King's own struggle against alcoholism and drug abuse.

I can't say which one was better.

The much-anticipated advent is finally here !!!