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Publisher's summary
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before.
“One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century”—Wall Street Journal
Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller’s genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.
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"British actor Michael York's refined and dramatic reading captures both the tone and the spirit of Huxley's masterpiece." (AudioFile)
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Interesting history, prose a little outdated
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By: Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Steppenwolf
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- Narrated by: Peter Weller
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,245
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Save this Hesse novel for your midlife crisis.
- By Darwin8u on 03-02-14
By: Hermann Hesse
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The Kill (La Curee)
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
Émile Zola's The Kill is one part of the French author's 20-volume series about the fictitious Rougon-Macquart family during the Second French Empire, and it is rich with symbolism. Paris is awakening to unprecedented expansion, the future intoxicating, and in keeping with its penchant for excess, the aristocracy is caught up in the mad dash to devour as much of it as it can.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Whoever?!
- By Matthew Garcia on 07-07-21
By: Émile Zola
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
- 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself
- By: Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
- Narrated by: Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not all the stories are complete
- By SteffiT on 10-21-13
By: Henry James, and others
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Siddhartha
- Booktrack Edition
- By: Hermann Hesse
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Siddhartha, the ninth book written by Hermann Hesse, is about a young Indian boy who leaves his home in hopes of finding enlightenment with the wise "Goutama", which in this story is the Buddha. After learning what he can from Goutama, he decides to go off into the busy city and leads a life of greed and lust. When he realizes that the lifestyle is not fulfilling, and he reflects on his life, he goes to a river and contemplates suicide. However, it is here that Siddhartha meets a man who will change his life and help lead him to enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of a Kind
- By Anonymous User on 04-04-20
By: Hermann Hesse
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Death in Venice
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 180
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A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A problem with the narration
- By Erez on 03-19-12
By: Thomas Mann
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The Beautiful and Damned
- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: William Dufris
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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5 out of 5 stars
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i loved it
- By Emily on 01-20-05
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The Voyage Out
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely
- By Edith on 05-24-19
By: Virginia Woolf
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- By: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 157
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 156
Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- By mohammed on 08-11-21
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Villette
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 434
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Story4 out of 5 stars 380
Hailed as Charlotte Brontë’s “finest novel” by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck’s school for girls. During her stay, she falls in love—twice—and discovers an independent, inner strength rarely seen in women of her time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Divine Ms. Porter delivers as always
- By peachnmario on 03-17-15
By: Charlotte Brontë
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The Willows
- By: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrated by: Nick Sampson
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slowly building dread.
- By Barks Books on 12-19-16
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Island
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,750
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,554
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,550
In his final novel - which he considered his most important - Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and - to his amazement - give him hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great narration for a great book.
- By AndrewL on 09-21-16
By: Aldous Huxley
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The Crime at Black Dudley
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 632
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 562
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 565
When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I LIKE this narrator quite a lot!!!!
- By Meep on 11-16-13
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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,001
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,993
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,968
A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disgusting Revision
- By Long_Schlong_Silver on 09-27-18
By: Joseph Conrad
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The Third Policeman
- By: Flann O'Brien
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Story4 out of 5 stars 409
Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.
Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hell is other people's bicycles.
- By Darwin8u on 03-01-15
By: Flann O'Brien
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The Recognitions
- By: William Gaddis
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 47 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4 out of 5 stars 176
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- By andrew on 11-17-10
By: William Gaddis
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,371
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22.
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Stop randomly adding music
- By Kenneth S. Clark on 08-31-18
By: Joseph Heller
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Crome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.
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Bloomsbury in a blender, 1922
- By Adeliese Baumann on 01-02-17
By: Aldous Huxley
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year.
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Frederick Davidson's a Great Reader
- By Debali on 01-11-09
By: George Orwell
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Candide (AudioGO Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Jack Davenport
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When first published in 1759, Candide became an instant best seller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of human folly and intolerance found a perfect vehicle in this philosophical tale. A master storyteller, he combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and oriental tales with which his public was more familiar.
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Guaranteed to keep you smiling if not LOL
- By Robert on 08-09-12
By: Voltaire
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- Retired & relaxing
- 02-27-18
wow!
I just finished my second listen. How could Huxley have painted our world any better? Hopefully I will be able to resist the soma. This is a MUST read/listen for anyone.
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- Ray D.
- 11-17-18
so so. 1984esque as expected abd same result .
somewhat boring at times and weird, but the genre drew me in. was somewhat disappointed.
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- ByronHolloway
- 04-30-12
A classic that still holds up well
This story still holds up very well. Very interesting to think about what you would trade for happiness and stability.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Kid at Heart
- 04-18-17
York gives life to a world that is frighteningly "not good."
Peace and stability are quite possible, at a price. Is the price too high? One only needs to give up one's free will and live in blissful ignorance of being controlled.
Aulous Huxley created a world that, although not probable, seems all to possible. There is a place for everyone and everyone is in their place, and everyone belongs to everyone else. Personal attachments don't exist. Even the concept of parents is looked upon with disgust. Child like thinking is the rule as it is conducive to everyone being happy.
Child birth has been eliminated by having all fertilization done in a lab and the human grown in a womb substitute. Every person's life is predetermined and the fetus is geneticly enginered to that end. Conditioning follows the decantment (the womb substitute is a bottle) so that every task is done by a person who is both physically and mentally suitable for it; even if it requires creating thousands of "twins" (a sort of cloning) who are brachycephalic - short headed "morons".
As for Michael York's narration, he can rightfully be very proud of it. Each character has their own voice and personality and York keeps them separate and consistent. His voice is pleasant and not distracting.
For those who have never read this book, and never will *read* it, I highly recommend this audio book. It's a scary story. Although, I'd rather be scared into protecting my freedoms rather than be lulled into sacrificing them in the name of peace, happiness, and security.
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- jjl1
- 11-11-17
It’s a classic
I’m not sure how I went this long without reading this classic. Wasn’t a major set back because while it has “classic” status, it’s all too predictable today.
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- jared
- 06-14-19
A deep dive into purpose of suffering
slow starting and old world scifi but as meaningful and pointed the author intended. good reading.
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- Elizabeth A. Binns Roemer
- 06-05-18
a forgotten novel of my youth
how good it was to go back and explore this book in later life that I read so young.
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- Geoff DeSena
- 06-23-18
A classic that will make you think
Like all good literature, Brave New World challenges conventional notions of society and forces the reader to consider how the world of the book could come to be in the real world. Huxley's prejudices and personal morality bleed through clearly, but he does not insist that they are right. He asks the reader to respond. Michael York's performance was just about as good as it gets.
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- Topher Sunday
- 10-22-18
Interestingly twisted.
After nearly 100 years, this story is nervously close to where we as Americans could end up.
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- Cody R.
- 06-13-17
Evermore applicable each decade.
Thoroughly enjoyed the story. Didn't much like the female voice enactments from the reader. 9/10
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