I've never been a reader, but Jordan Petersons reading list has got me reading again. I'm almost finished with Gulag Archipelago and Brave New World.
The writing in Brave New World seems so...childish? Bad? Like a highschoolers use of language and drama?
The George Orwell books were ok. I can understand his fame. Huxley just seems bad.
Parker Watson
Brave New World was an outlier and pretty much a joke project (even for himself). It has absolutely nothing to do with his other work.
"Time must have a stop" is pretty Veeky Forums for example. Then there's Doors of Perception, which is completely different again. Really diverse writer and clearly good at it, too.
Juan Reyes
I didn't really care for Brave New World. I don't think Huxley is a great technically accomplished writer, having read Brave New World and The Doors of Perception.
Still, you have to understand that the appeal of Brave New World does not reside in the style, the writing style - it resides in the ideas he was trying to convey. With dystopian literature world building becomes very important and the technical aspect of writing takes a back seat.
This is because what is important, as I've said before, for those writers, is to showcase their ideas and the dystopia they have imagined. What matters is the imprint of the described world on the reader.
Grayson Diaz
Try point and counterpoint
Robert Green
>Petersons reading list has got me reading >seems so...childish? Bad? Like a highschoolers
Elijah Perry
This. His style is pretty cumbersome and just bad at times. Brave New World is an interesting exploration of ideas, but nothing too special. (I have only read Brave New World, so maybe his other stuff is better)
Parker Jenkins
Both are considered pleb by those of us in the biz
Wyatt Wilson
I don't get the joke?
here is the list
1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 2. 1984 – George Orwell 3. Road To Wigan Pier – George Orwell 4. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky 6. Beyond Good And Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche 7. Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning 8. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski 9. The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang 10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 11. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl 12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul – Carl Jung 13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief – Jordan B. Peterson 14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) – Mircea Eliade 15. Affective Neuroscience – Jaak Panksepp
Caleb Nguyen
the biz?
Juan Russell
I'm not him but I'll explain: Peterson's list is not Veeky Forums, it's supposed to enable you to understand and discuss very specific issues (which also go against the prefered narrative on Veeky Forums). It's not a list of "great books". It's more like a reading list for a university class.
50% of the posts on Veeky Forums is shitting on dystopian novels because "idea literature" is inherently less "patrician". People even hate on Dostoyevski for the same reason here.