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Original Title:	Island
ISBN:	0060085495 (ISBN13: 9780060085490)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Will Farnaby

Island

Aldous Huxley

Paperback | Pages: 354 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 23665 Users | 1409 Reviews

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Title	:	Island
Author	:	Aldous Huxley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 354 pages
Published	:	July 30th 2002 by Harper Perennial Classics (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Philosophy. Dystopia. Literature. Novels

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In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.

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Ratings: 3.83 From 23665 Users | 1409 Reviews

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Whatever the precise definition of the novel concept might be, it certainly does not hold Island as its epitome. It is comprehensible.After the release of the acclaimed dystopia known as Brave New World, Huxleys name became forever imprinted into the respectable hall of fame of science fiction writing, which might have hindered his prospects into finding other ways to convey his own opinions. In Island, the reader is overcome with the feeling that he might have been coerced into masquerading the

About a utopian SE Asian island society on the cusp of being corrupted by exploitation of oil. Reads more like a socio-political manifesto than a novel. The plot, such as it is, is just an excuse to contrive situations for characters to explain their life, philosophy, culture etc, rather than the driving force. This also means that none of the characters are very convincing because they are almost incidental caricatures (and many of them are too good to be true).

Strange things, these novels of ideas. You read, you read, so charmed and challenged by the intellectual debate that somewhere along the road you completely forget to pay attention to the plot, to the characters and generally to all that makes the essence of a novel. And only in the end you ask yourself if it is a novel what youve just read after all. The explanation is of course quite simple: plot and characters are only embodiments of ideas and such writings, while mimicking the narrative

I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. "Brave New World" is one of my favorite dystopias, so I was excited to see how Huxley tackled a utopia, and to see how his thoughts on society matured between his writing of "Brave New World" and "Island"-- his last novel. I felt the result was slightly disappointing.While all dystopias and utopias are comments on society, and almost all utopia/dystopia authors have an agenda which they would like the reader to come to after reading the work,

I bet just about every review of this book starts with a sentence along the lines of I am reading this because I read Brave New World . . . Well, I am no different! Brave New World is one of my favorite (if not my most favorite) book, so I figured I would give another Huxley book a try.I am giving this one 3 stars not because it is good or because it is bad, but because it just is! Island is a utopian manifesto thinly veiled behind a story on a fictional island of Pala. I have seen many say it

Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Did i read this for the plot? Absolutely not. The premise is literally "a guy is stranded on an island and while recoving, he gets a full tour of their lives, economy and, philosophies.Is the writing great? Not really. Brave New World was definitely better.But then why read it? I don't know.I wanted to see what else Huxley has up his sleeves - and I was surprised. So while I struggled through a lot of this and kept checking my pages to see if I was

Aldous Huxleys last novel is an enjoyably old-fashioned novel of ideas that makes no bones about what it is. Huxley posits an island utopia that has no real dystopian aspects except for the handing of power through the lines of a single family. It allows Huxley to push some of his favorite things, including hallucinogens, free sex, and Buddhism. Its a fun change from fiction of today. A 3.5.