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Esteemed Scholar: Damon LaBarbera Total Posts in Aldous Huxley 25 1. Favorite book and why? Eyeless in Gaza is my favorite. It contains many of the ideas that pervaded Huxley's earlier books, and seems more mature to me than Antic Hay and Point Counter Point. By about this time, he was getting older, and though less funny and satirical, was developing a more humanistic view. I dislike most his later works, after about 1950, which seem, honestly, a little peculiar to me. 2. Least favorite book and why? I'd say that Ape and Essence is my least favorite book, because it is in verse. Also, dislike his books on the Bates vision method. I think Brave New World and Island are pretty weak, as well. 3. Favorite scene in favorite book and why? Funniest story is The Claxtons, written when Huxley was in his twenties. Giaconda Smile is also funny. As for favorite scene--Illidge tripping on the steps in Point Counter Point. 4. Favorite character and why? Uncle Eustace in Time Must Have A Stop. That has been my screen name on AOL for a few years. Uncle Eustace is a kind of debauched aristocrat living in Italy on the money his late wife left him. 5. Which character do you identify most with and why? I identify most with Philip Quarles in Point Counter Point, or maybe Denis Stone in Crome Yellow. Both are avoidant types, really models on Huxley himself. Gumbril, too, from, Antic Hay. 6. If you could see a sequel to one of the author's books, which would it be and what would it be about? I'd like to see what happens to Joe Stoyte in After Many a Summer. 7. What do you like about author's writing style? Lack of use of metaphors 8. What are your favorite themes of this author? --Reason versus emotion --Attempting to find balance in life --The disjuncture of the classes --Personality variables in humans 9. What could be most improved about this authors books? Later on, characters tended to become cardboard figures in service of his particular ideas. Brave New World, for example, can not be taken seriously as literature. Huxley himself probably would have liked to write a little more like Lawrence--more emotion. Gertrude Stein said he was "Dead". I think that is what she meant. Other great reviews I've written (click on a link below) Science Fiction 2001: A Space Odyssey

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