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Island by Aldous Huxley
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it was ok
bookshelves: scifi-future-speculative-fict

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).

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Finished Reading
May 30, 2008 – Shelved
June 9, 2008 – Shelved as: scifi-future-speculative-fict

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Kerri Smith Completely accurate. Great succinct overview. I really wished I had enjoyed it.


Cecily Kerri wrote: "Completely accurate. Great succinct overview. I really wished I had enjoyed it."

Thanks. It's lost in memory now, beyond the fact I won't rush back to Huxley (other than Brave New World).


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