I'm trying to save you some time. — 1 year agoThis book needed a much harsher editor. There was no discernible point. It was clearly just a bunch of self-help psychology for the author. I’m all for working out the crappy life in writing so that you understand yourself better and lighten the baggage, but WHY this cathartic lump was made in to a book I just don’t get.
Skip this book.
Why is it always the ending? — 1 year agoI was SOOOO in to this book for the first half. It was fascinating and there was a ton of potential. Then it got in to quantum physics and pyschology and philosophy and I found myself thinking: If I WANted to learn this stuff I wouldn’t be reading a fiction novel. It’s like the author is so pround (or just cocky) about knowing this stuff that she had to ramble on about it.
I found the ending disappointing too.
It was an interesting book, but it felt more like three almost entirely separate stories. Intro, text book, strange end.
Ok. This book was fluid and beautifully written. The concepts on how to run a Utopian society where the indiviuality of every person is understood and utilized for the greater good of the community were, in my opinion, fascinating and plausible.
I felt that the ending was very unsatisfying though. Aldous Huxley was apparently very in to the hallucinogens in his later years and as this book (being his last published book before he died) seems to be very disjointed by the end. It was kind of a ‘What the Fuck?” ending really.
It was still just lushly amazing to read and probably one of the best books I’ve read in the last 365 days. I guess that the first half had me hoping for a new messiah in Huxley and he couldn’t deliver.
So much for looking to one man for leadership, though I guess he warned me not to do that.
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