Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Entertainment Value – B+ Readability – A Overall Value – A- 

Whoa. First off, this is not the book to read with your parents, with topics such as children experimenting with promiscuity, and orgy church sessions. But these parts are meant to disgust, a pure dystopia. In this society, each person is born with their role in society, and trained through classical conditioning to love their role in society. In all honesty, the message of the novel – that our world is progressing to this state in which humans become part of a societal machine – seems less relevant than the message of similar novels like 1984. But after reading this novel, which is a fairly easy read at that, it makes you consider how we are currently a product of the training we undergo at a young age, and it makes you consider that perhaps this dystopia is not far in the future.