Brave New World Revisited

I took a utopian studies class in college where we read an excerpt from this book. I decided to read the full book and it was about what I was expecting. While it was great to get Huxley's view on utopia/dystopia, I felt like the story suffered from unexpected pivots from the story. However, given that the entire point of the book is the exploration of utopia (and other topics) it's easy to go along with the story.

The book kept my interest for the first half of the book. Their were parts in the second half of the book that became boring and repetitive but it is probably due to the style of the writer.
The author does make you think of certain topics in which sex is for pleasure only because you are not encouraged to have a long lasting relationship. Women are still viewed as meat and their is the superiority of certain groups over others. The caste system and the cloning is presented here as a substitute of the abolition of the nuclear family and individuality.
In a letter that Huxley wrote to Orwell after the he read 1984 sent to him by the author himself, Huxley wrote some interesting things to Huxley:” My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World :”Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”