Suggestions please...

[Molko]

Can anyone make any suggestions to another Huxley novel that would be a great read, aside from Brave New World?

Thanx,

Molko

[Loki]

The Art of Seeing? ;)

[Molko]

Is that one good?

[Molko]

By the way, I was thinking of reading Time must have a stop. Has anyone read it? Is it good?

[Jay]

Actually, if I told you a book was great... how can you be sure you'd like it as well?

Aside of BNW I haven't read anything else by Huxley, sorry :)

[Capnplank]

I sure didn't think "Time Must Have a Stop" was by any means bad, but it might not make it to any list I might make of favorite or best novels. It was just... worth it but nothing spectacular. Hope that doesn't build it up too much or ruin it for you. It gets a bit trippy at times, which I found interesting and enjoyable.

"Island" might be a decent read if you enjoyed "Brave New World" a lot. It's another utopian society sort of deal, though without the pretty blunt criticism.

Though not by Huxley, I found Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887" (or whatever the years were) to be very interesting, and felt "Brave New World" was sort of a rebuttal to what could potentially be wrong with Bellamy's ideas of a perfect future (which was supposedly such an influential book in its time that it started all kinds of committees around the world or the country trying to set its ideas into motion).

[PeterL]

Can anyone make any suggestions to another Huxley novel that would be a great read, aside from Brave New World?



You might Island.

[Molko]

Thank you for all your suggestions :) Much appreciated

[Bandini]

I really recommend reading 'Brave New World Revisited' - not a novel, but a collection of excellent (and prescient) essays.

[crisaor]

Ditto with Ends and Means.

[Loki]

By the way, I was thinking of reading Time must have a stop. Has anyone read it? Is it good?

Time Must Have a Stop is a great book...well, I'm reading it right now, it's great so far. ;) The thing about Huxley is, you can't read him without desperately wanting to write something...all those delicious words...maybe it's just me, but it really motivates me to work harder at my writing.

[Jay T]

I liked Point Counter Point, which is an excercise in fantastic dialogue.

[dejosc]

try Eyeless in Gaza its very good