Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
When I chose this book, I had no idea what it was about other that it was a dystopian-style book. I really only chose it because the title sounded interesting. As I listened to the first half hour of the audiobook, the first few pages didn't strike me as very out of the ordinary, besides the occasional reference to a "World State" and "Society". The first few pages seemed to me, to be describing a fish hatchery. They described scientific processes and machines that didn't seem too different from the hatchery technology I have seen before at places along the Santiam and Deschutes rivers. The real turn came when Dr. Foster began to talk about "babies." From that point forward I was like, "Hold up...did I read that right? So they're cloning people like livestock in there?" None of what I was reading and listening to seemed normal after that. Every statistic and fact the doctor and director gave just made me sink further into m...