"Brave New World" from Kelli

This book started off with a bang! I was loving it. All of the ironic references to "ancient" culture (of course, the culture that you are I are living in). It was so....topical, so....political. Aldous Huxley's descriptions were eloquent, but didn't run on forever. I was flying through this book.

And then, I hit about 70 pages from the end and ran into a wall. Suddenly, I was sick of the plot, and the climax that I thought was going to come at the beginning of the book, clearly was not where Huxley wanted us to go. I was disappointed and deinvested. And so the book sat by my bed, with me reading about 3-5 pages every night. Last night, I finally suffered through the end of the book.

What a let down!

GRADE SHEET:

Narrator's Likability: B (the narrator shifts between chapters)

Pacing: A at the beginning, D at the end

Satisfying Ending: FFFFFFFFF

Sense of Irony: A-