/lit/ - Literature

I can't really say i liked bernard as a character. He had the chance to bone hot chicks and he didn't go for him. I thought he was a little bit too whiney.

Actually, I always liked Mustapha Mond. That kind of benevalent dictator appeals to me.

Helmholtz seemed pretty likeable to me.

Do we really need a daily thread for this high-school freshman level piece of dung?

>>1259072

Yes, because it was realized in American consumerism.

Brave New World wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual...

>>1259073
>whatthefuckamireading.jpg

>>1259076

Training people to constantly consume, squashing individual thought, discouraging solitude, not to mention the Command Economy which is carefully maintained and upheld to last indefinitely...these things are hardly fiction these days.

>>1259082
wtf does that have to do with what
>>1259072
said? Typical hipster using every opportunity to pretend to be smart, even when his point doesn't apply to the discussion. derp

>>1259072

>implying that books assigned in high school are bereft of literary value
>implying that high schools assign Brave New World, a book which contains drug use, sexual promiscuity and the promotion of violence, to their students
>Implying that Brave New World is not the single most accurate prophecy made about present day life

>>1259107
>Read BNW to read it, didn't actually understand it

>>1259082
The only thing that's missing is soma and islands to escape to.