Island - Aldous Huxley
From Harper Academic.com:
'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.'
Other titles put up for voting by Sonia:
- 'The New-York trilogy' by Paul Auster
- 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' by Oliver Sacks
- 'Hymalaya' by Michael Palin
- 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov
This book club meeting was held at the king and Queen and we went to Fitzrovia once more!!
Comments are welcome!!
The overall score for this book was 3.7/10 (within 4 votes)!!
Individual scores were: RB: 3; SM: 4; AS: 4 and CE: 4
posted by dragontree @ 11:07 pm
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5 Comments:
Errr, I have to say that although I did try, I didn't finish the book (sorry guys), but lets face it, London bookshops are not very keen on Aldous's Island - either that or everyone else in London has decided to read the book! Even lovely Foyles had...9 book of Aldous and not a single one was Island!!!
So, my post is very non book club really, just to say that we had a delightful evening at the K&Q, only the girls - Angelo was going to a concert and Kev was meeting his financial advisor - being a property magante and all. There was book discussion first. Anjan, do you wear long floaty pijamas? And then afterwards to our usual Fitzrovia for a great tongue wag.
Cris xx
Yes i have lovely floaty pj's. In fact i'm planning another excusion to blvd st Michel to stock up. As fo the book i believe that it was a difficult read. and i have to admit that i did not complete it either... however. i was dissapointed by the ending as told to me by the other bookies. perhaps its best left unfininshed ( either that or we havent any budding novelists in the group)
I also found this book difficult to read. I started reading it very last minute, so I really rushed to get it finished and I guess it needed more attention. It's not the kind of book you can read in the tube!
On a positive note it was different from what we have read previously! Quite philosophical at times and a lot of times difficult to grasp. I had to re-read sentences quite often. I guess you need to be in the mood to read this kind of book.
I believe I have rated it 4/10. Girls, correct me if I am mistaken. It has been a while and my memory is not the same...!!
Hmm, yes this was a struggle at times, but I did make it to the end(!) Interesting, but a little too philosophical for my tastes, I think thats my last venture into the world of Huxley. Can't remember my score - maybe 4?
Dreadful, far too intellectual for me - not spending anymore time on this book. 3 out of 10.
Ruth x
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