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Michael Kovacs

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Joined 1 year, 6 months ago

maybe one of these years I'll hit my reading goal

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Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (Hardcover, 2013, Neal-Schuman publishing) 4 stars

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today …

Brave New World

3 stars

I truly struggled with this book and I don’t think it gets anywhere truly interesting until the final 50ish pages. Maybe I went into Brave New World with an expectation of what it should be given it has been sold as the most accurate dystopian novel of the early 1900s rather than taking it for what it is. I agree with its points about life needing its ups and downs to be worth living and that rebellion against the system will be absorbed into the system and exploited, especially under capitalism, but it took the longest path to get to those points. Reading and finishing Brave New World gave me the understanding for why I was unable to read Doors of Perception. I don’t think I care all that much for Huxley’s writing style.

Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano (1974, Laurel) 4 stars

Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a …

Player Piano

4 stars

Content warning spoilers for the ending of the book

Rachel Jeffs: Breaking free (2017) 4 stars

Breaking Free

4 stars

This isn't for the lighthearted and even though it ends in freedom (for some), there is so much pain inflicted to so many parties throughout the journey. Breaking Free really casts a light on how religion can be twisted and used as a human tool for absolute control and submission rather than inspiration and peace. Women were seen as objects and stats for the men and most of the men in here were okay with it because they are the benefactors of this system. Her FLDS husband still is trapped in this religion, serving made-up penances from a man behind bars, refusing to reconnect with the author and their children likely because as a man in an misogynistic religious cult, as long as he puts his head down and obeys, he gets what FLDS promises to their men. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints is one …