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Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Michael York
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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.

©1932 Aldous Huxley; 1998 BBC Audiobooks America (P)2003 BBC Audiobooks America

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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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Oldie but Goodie

a lot of this book still scares me to this day. Bits here and there feel all to real in our world today.

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Excellent production

Enjoyed York’s narration of a book which seems increasingly more relevant over time. Well executed literary classic.

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Too dark.

Couldn't identify with any characters and I had to fast forward through many scenes. Lots of dark impressions.

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Nonsense

So, I only made it through chapter 3 and just could not figure the story out it was stupid and ridiculous 

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the constant reveal of how the world cand be

great book.. trippy and scary knowing that the world is like this book in so many ways

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I can't believe this was written so long ago because it's seems to applicable to the modern age.

I found it disturbing. it's not difficult to see the civilization described within as the end result of modern western democratic/liberal politics. family is eradicated, love doesnt exist, people r manufactured, conditioned, and drugged to conformed to societal ideology. if course I think its more likely we will first destroy ourselves with civil war, then be conquered by China b4 this actually happens.

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Terribly accurate vision of the future

As it is every time I revisit it, Huxley’s Brave New World is poignantly hilarious, hauntingly accurate and brilliantly composed.
York did a fantastic job orating everything except for Marx’s voice. I couldn’t tell what kind of accent he was trying for (at times he made Marx sound Irish and at other times it sounded more like a Mumbai accent).
However, that wrinkle is small potatoes next to the majesty and timelessness of Huxley’s tale. It’s a book that should be experienced by all.

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the reader kills it for me

The reader's voice kills the story for me. I can't stand it. it might be pleasant or neutral for other listeners but it is so horrible to me that I can't even focus on the story. I wish I didn't waste my credit.

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Could not enjoy the premis of the book.

Could not get in to this book, it was too far fetched for me.

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if it’s a banned book, you know it’s worth a listen

it’s always good to refresh something classic that you haven’t read since high school or maybe weren’t even allowed to read in some high schools

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