/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/...

I have finished my exams and want to get reading some more.

Can you recommend me some dystopian futuristic fiction along the lines of 1984 or Brave New World?

>Yes, a little too able; they were right.
Not much going on. Seems apropos.

Anyone else think that Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is becoming increasingly more important socially? I mean, with science accelerating and that. Could something like that ever actually happen??
Thoughts?

I have just read Brave New World, and it was the probably the scariest book I have ever read. Huxley has almost perfectly predicted the future, for American society and for the world in general. Life has become meaningless and trivial, people amusing themselves with bullshit like movies and getting drunk, so they can work, so they can buy unnecessary bullshit.

People have become segregated into classes, with the economic gap between the classes growing. There is only material possessions, and how much you have, the happier you are. At least that's what we've been told our whole lives. 'People are better now than they ever have been', etc.

So what do you guys think? How similar is modern society to the society in Brave New World?

So I'm thinking of picking up Brave New World. Worth it? I've heard a lot of people say yes.

I know you guys absolutely love seeing 50,000 of these threads a day, but:

How was a Brave New World satire, exactly? I mean beyond the scope of pleasure can be used to control people.

In the final chapter, between the savage and mustapha, he justifies the world he's created so perfectly. From an objective point of view, one that does not inherently value god and individual freedom over happiness, it seems like a perfectly acceptable society.

Same goes for the caste system. We NEED lower class workers in order for society to function, only we've told everybody that you should go to college and get a high level job. I fail to see where creating a pre-determination caste system is a bad idea, again outside the scope of our individual-freedom-vision.

just finished Brave New World.
Was anyone else absolutely awed by this book?

Huxley's Brave New World is the best dystopian novel I've had the pleasure of reading. I've read 1984, too, and think that Orwell was a bit too off base with his prediction. Same goes for other authors, but I figured I'd only mention the main two here.

What does /lit/ think?