Sometimes we start reading "authors" as opposed to specific books, because we feel we ''should''. So it was with me and Huxley. I seem to remember reading and actually enjoying the classic ''Brave New World'' and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvre.
I have to give it 3 stars because at times the writing does sharpen into a crisp grasp of an idea… and I can't deny the scholarship that it expounds. But I can't give it more than that, because it is being sold as a novel, and on that level I'm afraid it doesn’t work for your average reader.
[[After Many A Summer by Aldous Huxley]] is rather more accessible and we also have a review of his [[The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley|The Genius and the Goddess]].