Negative Positive
Title: Bland
Review: A prophetic vision of a distant future, where humans are hatched, and choice is a thing of the past. Brave New World describes a regimented, worldwide government where men and women are bred into a particular caste, and conditioned from infancy to appreciate their lives as workers and consumers. Sometimes it seemed an attack against communism, at other times a treatise on `stability with happiness' versus `instability with human struggle.' Regretfully, the characters were unlovable, and at times seemed barely human. The struggle against the government turned out to be not much of a struggle at all, more of a polite conversation with some tears. There was no fear or darkness, and only a little bit of contention. Towards the end, the characters turned didactic, quoting Shakespeare and waxing scholarly. It made the story feel more like an essay than a book. For a touching futuristic tale of governmental intrusion, read Orwell's 1984 instead.
Is the review positive or negative? 