Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

[King Bob]

One of those books I've seen a million times but never read, so I thought I would. And it really wasn't very good. In the future the world government makes everyone happy and a bit stupid, with plenty of drugs and sex and entertainment, and no family attachments since everyone is grown in labs and designed for their level in life. A "savage" who grew up outside this culture on the edge of a Hopi pueblo gets taken to civilization. It ends badly of course. As science fiction it fails miserably. It could just be mocking a desire for comfort and ease, and how that leads to emptiness. Or parodying the insulated English upper class? I'm not sure. The characters are flat, and the women (few) are childish and mainly there for the men to have sex with.

Not recommended. Maybe at the time it was significant, but not so much now.