Island (Perennial Classics)
 

Island (Perennial Classics)

by Aldous Huxley

In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is... (read more)

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Keebler
  • Rated 5 stars

This is an interesting take on human nature: it is an opposite approach compared to a distopian novel but with the exact same goals I believe.

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tapbirds
  • Rated 2 stars

Grrr!... This novel raised my blood pressure significantly while reading it. (Perhaps this was Huxley's intent?) More so than "Brave New World," this book explored Huxley's Utopian views & hopes for the world. It seemed to drag on forever, and the reader is constantly being sermonized on the good of the human condition without the imposed evils of government or religion; perhaps a blend of Eastern/Buddhist thought with communalism. The following line summarized for me Huxley's...

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • Heidi A

    heidi a said:

    This sounds a lot like Ecotopia- is it?

    posted Thursday, November 29 2007
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