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Title: Brave New World Revisited
Review: Having first read Brave New World while in highschool, I was curious to discover what my reaction to it might be twenty years later. Having read it a second time, I have even more respect for the work and marvel at the predictions that Huxley made. While he certainly was poking fun at society with most of his predictions, the more fearful ones certainly leave one somewhat unsettled. One must ask how close we have come to his Utopian society in our modern age. The intrusions of the press as it strives to give us the real story might be the most frightening parallel between the book and our society. For all the moments when the book scares us, makes us laugh or forces us to ponder our fate, it is a real masterpiece. Even more so when one considers it was written seventy years ago. Many thanks to my highschool English teacher who assigned it to me twenty years ago. Here's hoping today's highschools will still allow such a book to be available to today's students.
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