- Paperback
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1564781496
- ISBN-13: 978-1564781499
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Inflatable pants for every one!,
This review is from: Antic Hay (Paperback)
Huxley I can usually take or leave, but not Antic Hay: there are just too many farces to decipher for me to put it down. Huxley's women are beautiful and easy; his men are amoral and excrutiatingly clever. But underlying their antics is a novel of incredible complexity. Huxley makes his attentive readers squirm as we recognize our own pretensions and idiocies in his archetypal characters. Ouch, ouch, ouch. The other gift in this novel is that it has helped me appreciate and understand the work of other writers such as Waugh and Mitford: i.e., in order to enjoy them, you have to suspend your own understanding of life and realize that there actually was a thriving class of people in England who didn't have jobs, relied on servants, and had no lives to speak of. And were bored to tears by their sumptuous privilege, believe it or no. For modern readers, I'd say this is a pretty tough read. I know a respectable amount of both French and Latin, and I had to look up at least part of most of those passages. But if you're prepping for the vocabulary section of the GRE or the SAT...this book will provide you with myriad words to look up and learn, including the wonderful "callipygous". Maybe I should give the rest of Huxley's work another reading...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like 'The Great Gatsby', only its actually good,
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This review is from: Antic Hay (Paperback)
I'm a huge fan of Huxley's novels, and I believe Antic Hay is his best. Its a novel for intellectuals, being about the people in the 1920's who actually thought. The characterizations are rich and meaningful, and the disillusionment of the post-WWI era is poetically portrayed within a simple, realistic plot.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Aimless lives, aimless story,
By Paul Mastin (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Antic Hay (Paperback)
As a huge fan of "Brave New World," I picked up "Antic Hay" anticipating the same depth of social commentary. I was sadly disappointed. Huxley does present an occasionally mildly entertaining picture of post-WW2, upper-middle-class life in London, much like Fitzgerald did for New York in "The Great Gatsby," but the meandering, pointless lives of the characters produced a meandering, pointless novel. In this regard, I was also reminded of "Catcher in the Rye," another novel whose place on the dais of great literature is undeserved. Altogether an unsatisfying read.
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