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Title: Viva Huxley!
Review: Aldous Huxley's genius is fully revealed in this wicked satire, which in addition has become an uncannily accurate look at trends in the technology and society of our own time. There are so many points in this book where you are ready to laugh and shudder at the same time. While there are many frivolous puns and jokes scattered throughout, not to mention ridiculously overblown character interactions, the message is ultimately quite serious. We are still prostrating ourselves at the feet of corporations which claim to be advancing the cause of science, being "connected" and "happy" is now more important than anything, and journalistic ethics have indeed evaporated. This novel is in some ways the best portrait of the 1990s yet written--our own contemporary writers, for the most part, are too inhibited or ignorant to say what's really going on.
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