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Brave New World photo from miniseries

Brave New World. Meh.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

October 21, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 2 Comments

I’ve been curious about this book for a long time. 1984 by George Orwell was one of my favorite books as an adolescent, and Brave New World is often mentioned in the same breath. So when I found a Brave New World mini-series, I thought I’d check it out.  The mini-series stars Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey), Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen from GOT), and Alden Ehrenreich (Young Han Solo from Solo), and it tells the story of a “utopic” future London where […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: aldous huxley, Classism, dystopia, mini-series, misogyny, Racism, TV Show, utopia

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:46 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: aldous huxley, Classism, dystopia, mini-series, misogyny, Racism, TV Show, utopia ·
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Madness, Illness, Grief, and The Haunting of Hill House

November 14, 2018 by xoxoxoe 2 Comments

Beware of mild spoilers … I recently finished watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. But it is still with me. It was at times an uncomfortable watch, but it also may be one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. It can’t really be called an adaptation of the immortal Shirley Jackson novel. That classic book could be considered more of a jumping-off point for this, an original, deeply-felt horror story. The original novel, first published in 1959, concerns a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: #CBR10, Books, Carla Gugino, horror, mini-series, Netflix, Shirley Jackson, television, the haunting, The Haunting of Hill House, Timothy Hutton

xoxoxoe's CBR10 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: #CBR10, Books, Carla Gugino, horror, mini-series, Netflix, Shirley Jackson, television, the haunting, The Haunting of Hill House, Timothy Hutton ·
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