wren
Follow friends on the app and stay updated!
Scan the QR code
Public ・ 2025.02.26
2025.02.25 (Tue)
Actually im not sure how many stars i should rate this... this book has an interesting class system and world building where everyone owns everything, including each others body. They have no privacy and sexual play was encouraged in early age. They also drug themselves with "soma" to stabilize their emotions. but .. it's hard to feel connected to the characters, the PoVs keep changing back and forth, and most of them aren't likeable. the book only got until about 200 pages but it feels longer than that bcs the writing style makes the plot so hard to follow. or since its classic, maybe i just dont have the brain for this right now. Tho the last chapters discussing about freedom are going to left me thinking for a while ..
"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy"
"We prefer to do things comfortably." "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." "In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy" "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. "i claim them all"