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Related: About this forumVelshi Banned Book Club: 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley - Velshi - MS NOW
Aldous Huxleys magnum opus Brave New World is eerily relevant in todays America. It explores our cultural fixation and addiction to distraction in a world of unbridled mass consumerism. Alarmingly, it depicts a world with little hope for change when there is little desire to change. - Aired on 02/07/2026.
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Velshi Banned Book Club: 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley - Velshi - MS NOW (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
3 hrs ago
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Sounds excellent and a bit like my favorite English class in high school!
Rhiannon12866
2 hrs ago
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mwmisses4289
(3,563 posts)1. I know it is considered a classic, but I found it incredibly boring.
I had to read it for high school English one year. Read it once, and swore never again.
I find a lot of the classics incredibly boring. Not sure why, but there it is.
ScoutHikerDad
(94 posts)2. I Taught it for Years in AP English Lit.
Then followed it up with Neal Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. My students really got into it along with The Handmaid's Tale (before my district banned it). I always challenged my students to help me figure out how these classical novels are happening right now, which generated some challenging class discussions and essays.
Rhiannon12866
(252,189 posts)3. Sounds excellent and a bit like my favorite English class in high school!
