Books to Read Before You Die
In creating this list of books one should read before they die, I hoped to make a cache for each of them. I’ll start with about a dozen, and hopefully add to it every so often. I hope you enjoy the short summaries and will read the book, or remember that you once did. They are all available for free at your public libraries.
Please comment in you logs about any particulars you enjoyed most.
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited, and with his final novel, Island, the utopian counterpart. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.