Brave New World

Remember a few posts back I started reading Brave New World? And then never spoke of it again? Well I made it part of my Labor Day weekend. I bought it at Caphill Books a while back after reading 1984, in one of those panics of shit-there's-so-many-classics-I-haven't-read-yet.

I had to stop myself from comparing it to 1984, though I vaguely remember the plot...It also reminded me of Daniel Quinn's Ismael. Like the previous book I read, I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters. They all sucked as people, even John, but maybe that was the point. I enjoyed the dark humor (or smart people may call it satire), the ending, but that's about it.


PS: Is it wrong every time I think of the novel, I start singing it to the melody of The Little Mermaid's "A Whole New World"? Everyone does that right? Right?