In "Brave New World," first published in 1931, Aldous Huxley creates a dystopia of carnal pleasure, where truth is traded for comfort, and pain is swapped with apathy. Huxley paints a brilliant image of people who've been consumed by ambiguity and have sacrificed the integrity of individuality. The lewd and crass behavior in which the majority of characters act--contrasted with the protagonist's alien perspective--vividly creates a paradoxical juxtaposition of the obscene and the rational. Eighty years after it's publication, it's startling to see how closely the world imitates Huxley's emanations. "Brave New World" is a novel that absolutely must be read if humanity's senselessness is to be checked.