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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) on order. As I transition into a grumpy old git my tolerance for mediocre books is zero. This one's got me piqued however. 

Whilst you're waiting, you could read it online. Its out of copyright, so available in many places. (Sorry if you've already paid for the dead tree

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworld/huxleya-bravenewworld-00-...

In a previous life, a friend, not me, was leaving a job and in their notice period. As a result, people didnt give them any work, and there wasnt much this person needed to do, but they had to go in every day. Apparently, they spent many happy days reading books from Guttenberg. They'd download them as a text file and open it up in word. To anyone walking past, it looked as if they were being productive. Apparently.

Good tip! I bought it from WOB so second hand - No fresh trees were harmed, but simply downloading would have been even more environmentally friendly (assumedly)

Good book….i did it for English literature O level alongside 1984. 
If you haven’t read Animal Farm it is definitely one to catch up on…

For sure! Two excellent tomes that I wouldn't say I enjoyed, more accurately - they changed me, hopefully for the better (eventually at least!). Just BNW, Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaids Tale to tick off now (unless I've missed something obvious)

I read lots of dystopian future stuff in my younger years (not Handmaid's though). Have you tried 'Earth Abides'?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides

After reading Brave New World you should read Huxley’s later utopian Novel; The Island. A much under rated book and it’s even got some climbing in it!

Good stuff, I hope you'll enjoy it.

Speaking of classic sci-fi, I had never read any Ursula Le Guin until just recently when I bought a second-hand copy of Left Hand of Darkness.  Enjoyed it very much.

Enjoy it, its an excellent book. The Island is also great.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is worth a read if you've not. As is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

You're in for a treat (sort of). It's one of those reads that you won't forget. I read it in the 80s and could probably write a review, even now.

There aren't that many books I can say that about, but Orwell's classic pair (1984 and Animal Farm) also fit that brief.

Well worth a read. I read it in the 70's. When I got into the rave scene in late 80's/early 90's, it resonated strongly. Coincidentally I just dug out Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell for a reread, in preparation for a possible upcoming experience. As for Fahrenheit 451, it's also fantastic, as is anything written by Ray Bradbury. One of my all-time favourite authors. 

It's a funny sort of dystopia, isn't it?  Everyone seems to rub along ok by and large, people are mostly living in peace and they're quite happy and fulfilled.  When we meet Mustapha Mond the defacto dictator he actually quite a sympathetic character and Helmholtz, the real dissident in the story, seems quite pleased with his punishment in the end.

There's no 1984 'boot stamping on a human face forever', it actually seems to me to be rather less dystopian than the world we're living in now.

Try 'The Dispossessed' then, her most acclaimed work and possibly her best. Le Guin was an absolute star in the very male dominated sci-fi of the time (and was also accused of not being feminist enough by some feminist Sci Fi critics !?).

I'd add her Earthsea Trilogy  was fabulous teen fantasy, well before that genre commercially exploded.