I recently read i[Ape and Essence]i by Aldous Huxley. Seriously, Huxley can do no wrong in my mind; I love all of his stuff that I've read. This book is an allegory, but it's basically abou...
So dumb, I think its one of the most amazing novels especially considering when it was written. I love dystopia novels in general. For my final project in US history junior year I read three dystopia books and then wrote a paper on which I thought was the most likely to happen in the US. I could have watched a movie and read two books but I ended up re-reading 1984 and then reading Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange.
Ben insists that the only reason I like Brave New World is because its all about sex; and that is a major reason why I do like it but not for the reasons he thinks. I think looking at the sexual practices of a society are so revealing and thats why Huxley uses that and its so amazingly perverse.
I really like Huxley's symbolism too. I was really freaked out by Clockwork Orange, though. Especially when I was living alone; even though I'd read it years earlier, I still thought someone was going to burst through my front door and beat me up. It just freaked me out.