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31 Reddit comments about Brave New World:

u/HoorayInternetDrama · 11 pointsr/networking

I'd pick:

  • Dantes Inferno. Each layer brings you closer to the end user.
  • The Prince. A good book to help understand why that asshat manager is still employed.
  • Brave new world. Best read to help understand your work place
  • 1984. Understand why you exist to sling bits.


    You might think this is supposed to be a funny post. It's not. I'm very serious, these books will help you navigate most situations. The technical part is just a footnote tbh.
u/KenshiroTheKid · 8 pointsr/bookclapreviewclap

I made a list based on where you can purchase them if you want to edit it onto your post:

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u/DiscursiveMind · 7 pointsr/books
u/LazyJones1 · 7 pointsr/suggestmeabook
u/SmallFruitbat · 6 pointsr/YAwriters

In the land of good timing, /r/fantasy is also having a discussion about sex in fantasy today.

I also find these rants (from Limyaael's Rants, of course) to be quite topical: 1 2 3 4 5 6

And I'm probably going to beat /u/bethrevis to the punch even though it's her blog entry, but this conversation seemed to sum up "Adult" attitudes towards sex in YA quite well and stuck in my mind:

>Attendee: Oh no, violence is fine. Is there sex?

>Friend (starting to feel awkward): There's a scene in the book that does get a bit graphic, sexually. But it's relevant to the plot, and it's not gratuitous, and--

>Attendee: puts the book down on the table No. We can't have any sex in the books for the school.

>Friend: But it's a relevant issue. The girl in the scene is nearly raped and--

>Attendee: Oh? It's not consensual sex? Well, that's okay.

For context, graphic sex in books has always kinda squicked me out (though maybe the poor production value in erotica is more to blame - poor grammar also makes me cringe), but before I actually started having sex, I was fairly oblivious to the references in books. As in, totally missed what was going on in books like Brave New World or Song of the Lioness. Just totally skipped it. Didn't bother me or turn me into a sex-crazed deviant like people seem to fear or anything.

Now that I'm older, I do find it conspicuous when a world's meant to be gritty and completely detailed and cover everything from depression to bathroom habits to violence to inner turmoil, but even references to sex remain absent. For example, in the Mistborn trilogy (skirting the YA/genre fantasy border, supposedly), it's all [spoilers](#s "OK, so we're 20 and married and the most powerful people in the land and have no one to answer to and the world is ending and we really need a way to blow off steam... Let's never have sex ever.") It cuts into the believability of the stakes and to me, it seemed like possible justifications for that mindset were skipped over. [Possible justifications being things like ](#s "a political marriage, past trauma, fear of bringing a child into the world and complete ignorance of birth control, traditions built into that fantasy world, etc.")

That's not to say that you need to have sex in order to have a believable romance for high school or college-age characters. I think I'm in love with Levi from Fangirl without anyone getting naked even off-page, and I'm not even sure there was kissing in Boy Proof despite the sexual tension being through the roof. The lack of sex at that point in the story fit those characters and those relationships.

YA-ish books with sex I've recently read: Trickster's Queen (made sense for the characters involved), The Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy (props for having lots of build-up re: acquiring birth control and waiting for it to take effect), The Jewel (fittingly thematic, since it's a book about forced surrogacy and there was [spoiler](#s "a contrast between forced, mechanical impregnation and natural, chosen sex"), Eleanor & Park (fittingly awkward and open-ended, just like every other interaction they had), Looking for Alaska (public conversation about private awkwardness seemed really believable).

Edit: Looks like /r/fantasywriters is also having a discussion today, though with more of an LGBTQ slant.

u/Morrigane · 6 pointsr/booksuggestions

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

u/dopplerdog · 5 pointsr/AskReddit

Available here:

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250320818&sr=8-1

You must be thinking of a different book. It being out of print is almost like "Pride and Prejudice" going out of print.

u/xiah · 5 pointsr/AskReddit

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley was fascinating.

u/[deleted] · 5 pointsr/europeannationalism

No it can't. The elite have already planned out their plan from beginning to end. Read Brave New World. All of this stuff has been predicted in the '90s. There is no stopping what's coming.

u/Groumph09 · 5 pointsr/booksuggestions
u/4-1-3-2 · 3 pointsr/radiohead

Quite a few books have been referenced in interviews - here's some of the ones I think I remember. They're all very good books despite any association with Radiohead, by the way.

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

http://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Completely-Never-Found/dp/087947257X

The Crying of Lot 49 (also V. and Gravity's Rainbow)

http://www.amazon.com/Crying-Lot-Perennial-Fiction-Library/dp/006091307X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411238673&sr=1-1&keywords=crying+of+lot+49

1984

http://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411238702&sr=1-1&keywords=1984

The Hitchhiker Guide

http://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411238721&sr=1-2&keywords=hithchiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy

The Divine Comedy

http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso/dp/0451208633

No Logo

http://www.amazon.com/No-Logo-Anniversary-Edition-Introduction/dp/0312429274

Brave New World

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523

Cat's Cradle

http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Cradle-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/038533348X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411239309&sr=1-1&keywords=cat%27s+cradle

Stanley Donwood

http://www.amazon.com/Slowly-Downward-Collection-Miserable-Stories/dp/0954417739/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411239324&sr=1-2&keywords=slowly+downward

http://www.amazon.com/Household-Worms-Richard-Jones/dp/1906477558/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=088RY3YE1BENWJPAV5DY

u/SlothMold · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Sounds like you like short books with easy reading and heavier themes?

Maybe give World War Z (Journalist interviews people around the world trying to piece together events before, during, and after a zombie outbreak - lots of political commentary and survival skills in there) or The Things They Carried (interconnected short stories about the Vietnam War) a try?

You could also try more John Green, or some of his suggestions from this sub.

If you'd rather stick to classics, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are the dystopias you're "supposed" to read immediately following 1984.

u/Cersox · 3 pointsr/Libertarian

>Fair enough, I didn't consider the possibility of freedom diminishing to such an extent that human beings become de facto robots controlled by a small group at the top.

Ever read A Brave New World?

u/edheler · 2 pointsr/preppers


Dystopias that everyone should read:

u/Endrealis · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

[Brave New World] ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060850523) by Aldous Huxley. Newer and well done

u/BigCitySlicker · 2 pointsr/politics

Because it's a Brave New World

u/TheGlew · 2 pointsr/Futurology

Watch Gattaca and read Brave New World if you think this is going to benefit you in any way what-so-ever.

u/MalevolentGoblin · 2 pointsr/neutralmilkhotel

It looks like the cover of this edition of Brave New World:

https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523

Maybe it was the same graphic artist? The cover was done by Nyamekye Waliyaya who is employed by HarperCollins Publishers.

u/petiteuphony · 1 pointr/books

It's a tie between Brave New World and Kafka on the Shore for me.

u/wasabicupcakes · 1 pointr/mentalhealth

> I feel like this is the world WE Created. Technology, career pressure, economic inequality, social media...it all contributes to poor mental health.

If you have never read it, do yourself a favor and read this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060850523/sr=8-1/qid=1521846959/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1521846959&sr=8-1

u/BloodGrape · 1 pointr/Documentaries

Two prophetic books should be required for you if you're going to stand up to this age The Abolition of Man and Brave New World.

u/FUCK_METALLICA · 1 pointr/worldnews

It's hard to teach this concept in a few words I don't think it makes sense for most people for various reasons. The reference is from brave new world: http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523

u/KoKansei · 1 pointr/Anarcho_Capitalism

> Have you seen predictions from long ago about what life in the 2000s would look like? They were usually pretty far off.

Some of them were off. Others got pretty close to the mark.

u/GingerJack76 · 1 pointr/AskLibertarians

It's a problem, but it doesn't have a solution, at least not in the proper sense.

Unfortunately this is a complex question despite how simply it can be worded. If you asked: What would it take to make a Dyson Sphere, you get papers on papers of the different technologies that require this level of tech. We can generally simplify these things down to sentences, "you need X and Y and Z." But with questions like this, you're talking about a natural force, humans, and trying to act against their nature, which doesn't work. Humans can't actually go agaisnt their nature, sure, to some degree we can repress ourselves, but anyone in psychology will tell you the same story, it rebounds, and hard.

Just as an experiment, try believing that something you think is absolutely immoral is moral. You can't. It's a part of you. This part is what is known as your personality, or the way you interoperate and solve problems. There can be change, radical events in people's lives can result in radical shifts in views, but only within a certain limitation. Personality is at least 50%, if not more, based in your genes, it's hard coded, you can't change it without changing the hardware. We do find solutions to problems as we get older and make additions, but you can't change the base structure you're working with. Think of it like having a car, you can put new kinds of fuel in it, you can give it new paint, but you can't really change it's handling or how fast it can go without changing the physical nature of the car.

Why is all this relevant? It's because the problem isn't just humans not having jobs, it's humans not having a purpose. This is devastating for people. Purpose is a part of that naturally built structure because we're made to solve problems that matter. Solving trivial problems, without actually going anywhere, will lead to depression, people will develop chronic pain on their own, they can develop other forms of symptoms and even get sick. Most people do not think about this aspect, and only think about money, how will people feed themselves. This is because we have that as a problem, we're programed to view the world through the problems that are present and change, slowly, what new problems are as they present themselves or show themselves through humanities unique ability to imagine the future.

The top comment so far on this thread, made by u/Charles07v, ignores these problems entirely. Comments like these forget that humans are limited. Machines that simulate muscle and mind, and can do jobs better than humans, will replace humans. We are not special, we are just very advanced, there's a difference. We have the capability through collective knowledge, see the first paragraph with the Dyson Sphere, to layer tech to make ever more complicated tools and systems. Eventually we will find something that can replace us, to where we won't be needed, and there is nothing that can stop that from happening.

>I’m sure there were people panicking over the rise of automobiles over horse carts too.
>>And electricity, and oil from the ground, and the printing press, etc...

And then Chernobyl happened. Nagasaki, plastics were invented, green house gases. Examples like this laid out by both u/qdobaisbetter and u/jeffreyhamby are comments made from the result of not experiencing the problem. For most people, we do not think of not having anything to do because there is nothing to be done, but there is nothing to do because we don't want to. We can always choose to get something done, get a new job, work towards making more, get a better education, and it amounts to something: the collective knowledge and effort of humanity. But in a world where these things don't matter, where your effort is drops of water in the vastness of the universe, it brings up a new problem. Songs like Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" and even the saying "just a cog in a machine" highlight some peoples anxiety with this, we, in part, are already seeing the symptoms of this. Effort to contribute to society, meaningfully, is becoming harder and harder because of how much you have to know to even get started, or how specialized the jobs are becoming.

We can't expect humans to take the problem seriously until they experience it. And practically speaking there is no solution. We cannot prevent progress, even if it means horrible conditions.

But why libertarianism? The framework going into this problem will determine how our future is laid out, just as Christianity laid out the foundations for our modern democratic republic. Libertarianism ensures that any authoritarian solution would be limited, and maybe brilliant minds who engage in this problem, experiencing the symptoms the problem is causing, can find a proper solution. Do not dismiss this, it is real, and we are woefully under prepared for the transition to a post scarcity society.

u/wayword · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Some of my favorites:

u/Mr_Gustav · 0 pointsr/Shadowrun