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Johanna wrote:I would never ever buy a book by someone like Orson Scott Card that isn't used however, considering what he does with the money he gets from his sales.
meidei wrote:Does anyone else find Huxley's Brave New World uninteresting to say the least?
Not to come across as too arrogant, but Brave New World reads like a cheap porn-y scifi novel you can find for 4 euro in the bookstands of convenience stores in seaside resort towns.
meidei wrote:Well, my opinion being halfway through is far more colourful but I tried to tone it down for the sake of a discussion. Still:Not to come across as too arrogant, but Brave New World reads like a cheap porn-y scifi novel you can find for 4 euro in the bookstands of convenience stores in seaside resort towns.
I suppose it's part of the school-taught lit canon in many parts of the Anglosphere; we have to read it for ENG101 at uni now. And god, I find it actively shitty, not just uninteresting.
meidei wrote:And god, I find it actively shitty, not just uninteresting.
meidei wrote:Does anyone else find Huxley's Brave New World uninteresting to say the least?
meidei wrote:I suppose a huge part of it is that it's really difficult to write scifi that withstands the test of time.
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