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Original Title:	Island
ISBN:	0060085495 (ISBN13: 9780060085490)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Will Farnaby

Island

Aldous Huxley

Paperback | Pages: 354 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 23665 Users | 1409 Reviews

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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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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

This is a book to read and re-read for the philosophical and spiritual issues that it examines. The utopia of Pala is examined by an outsider, much like ourselves. Will has been brought up through the typical patriarchal pedagogy, which resents and demeans anything different. He learns to embrace a parallel if not complementary way of living. The Palanese integrate teachings across philosophies (not just religions) of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity and accept the spectrum of individuals

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

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

Strange things, these novels of ideas. You read, you read, so charmed and challenged by the intellectual debate that somewhere along the road you completely forget to pay attention to the plot, to the characters and generally to all that makes the essence of a novel. And only in the end you ask yourself if it is a novel what youve just read after all. The explanation is of course quite simple: plot and characters are only embodiments of ideas and such writings, while mimicking the narrative

The biggest problem I have with books centered on Utopian themes is that they are written more like a how-to guide than an actual novel. At least with dystopic literature things happen as well as playing as a mirror to the past society before it went "bad". With Utopian novels you have a character, usually a cynic (Will Farnaby here), who stumbles upon/is shipwrecked upon/falls asleep and wakes up in/etc. a brand new world. (Yes, that was an Aldous Huxley joke.) In Will's case, he was

"We don't despair, because we know that things don't necessarily have to be as bad as in fact they've always been." As a novel, Island fails. From an aesthetic point of view, it simply isn't very good: the scenario, setting, and characters created by Huxley are contrived and the endless religious-philosophical dialogue is scholastic and polished enough to befit a journal. In short, Huxley asks much from his reader, without always rewarding this trust by way of story-telling. At the same time,