Of course it was dry, you gotta dip it in mayo beforehand smh

Same, I actually really enjoyed it as a dystopic book. It might have been dry but the storytelling was great.

I never finished it. The protag was a weird horny misogynist. And though he had fundamental problems with the state of the world, he was too cowardly to do anything to counter it except to sneak around fucking some nympho chick, and, in fact, was derisive of those who actually do rebel against it. The dystopia of it was interesting, but the narrative was not remotely engrossing and often insufferable after the initial world building, at least up the point I dropped it. Maybe it got better towards the end, but I've read a synopsis of it since then and it doesn't really seem like it. Not my cup of tea.

As a thought experiment I guess.

Not very good as a novel, though. Same as Aldous Huxley, the characters barely exist, it's just a platform for pontification. Give me George Eliot or William Faulkner any day of the week.

The fucking manual.

The Jefferson Bible is a great way to read the NT without needing to spend too much time with it or roll your eyes at the supernatural bits.

There is no article in this thread - I was speaking generally because people usually reply only to whatever the headline is.