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Title	:	Island
Author	:	Aldous Huxley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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Original Title:	Island
ISBN:	0060085495 (ISBN13: 9780060085490)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Will Farnaby

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Tiresome but worthwhile, Island is more sociological treatise than novel. Huxley wrote a guide to his ideal society: communal, pacifist, profoundly spiritual, a country that focuses on its citzens' well-being and happiness over environmental devastation and false corporate prosperity. Pala, Huxley's fictitious South Asian island nation, is the societal equivalent of an ecosystem, the complex networks of each community rely on mutual dependence, a form of structured anarchism. I was spellbound

I'm not even finished with this and already it has had a profound effect on me. I resonate with this book like Cat's Cradle or Stranger in a Strange Land. It will take me two or three more readsat leastto grok it in fullness, but it already feels as if some of the thoughts were for me, some of me. It's been a very long time since I fell so profoundly in love with a book, and it's a delicious, delightful, very spiritual experience.

Lenin used to say that electricity plus socialism equals communism. Our equations are rather different. Electricity minus heavy industry plus birth control equals democracy and plenty. Electricity plus heavy industry minus birth control equals misery, totalitarianism and war. Aldous Huxleys Pala is a beautiful Solarpunk country. I would love to read stories of its people, their lives, their dramas.But thats not this book.This is a story of beauty about to be raped.Im not in the mood for that.

This book was required reading for a Grinnell College sociology course on utopias and dystopias taught by Alan Jones. Of all the books in that class we probably enjoyed this most because it was at once tragically utopian and, to our minds, relevant. Not only did it portray a plausible way of life, but it included the earnest use of psychotropics. It is not, however, Huxley at his best. Though we didn't mind, the message dominates whatever literary merit this last novel of his has.

This book was simply unbearable to read. The only reason I slugged through it was out of respect for Huxley and for the occasional snippets of philosophical wisdom I discovered along the way. The theme is pure Huxley: intelligent, open-minded man gets shipwrecked on a remote tropical island where the native population has managed to create a utopia. The man meets a variety of people over a period of days who explain Pala's (the name of the island) unique culture. The story is actually a

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