Anybody read "Brave New World"?

[trof]

I read it in my early 20s.
It read like science fiction then.
Now it reads like...now.
:eyes:

[av8rdave]

1. I read it...also in my early 20s

I should reread it now.

[KamaAina]

2. Anybody go to high school?

At least where I grew up in Conn., it was de rigueur.

[lunatica]

3. I read it a few decades ago, in High School

That 19% who still love Bush remind me of that book. The Global Warming naysayers too. The issuance of the sound bite du jour means only one or two people need to come up with them. Everyone else just repeats them, whether they understand them or not.

Puts a whole new meaning on Rush's 'dittoheads' doesn't it.

[supernova]

4. Did my HS senior term paper on BNW

Sometimes I really wish there was such a thing as Soma. :-( The idea of "feelies" continues to titillate. ;-)

[redqueen]

5. Yep.

Just think... in 20 years, we might be saying the same thing about Idiocracy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Sickening, isn't it?

[WolverineDG]

7. Yes, I read it back in 2004

double-header with a 1984 re-read.

He really called it on the "throw away society" didn't he?

dg

[trof]

8. "Stitches aren't riches"

[Callalily]

9. Actually trof, as I'm sure you

discovered, books we read in our youth, and then re-read them now hold a totally different meaning.

And to me, Brave New World is definitely one of those books.

[In_The_Wind]

10. I read it 40 years ago.

I agree with you.