Eh, a Brave New World was a waste of time. There are so many main characters and subplots in the book that Huxley doesn’t allow you to build an emotional connection with any of them. You can skip 90% of the book to get to the one chapter that Huxley was obviously building to and even that was a let down.
Early last week I went through a Program Manager interview at Microsoft. I am happy to say that it went reasonably well, since I did get an offer. This has been...
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August 14, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Eh, a Brave New World was a waste of time. There are so many main characters and subplots in the book that Huxley doesn’t allow you to build an emotional connection with any of them. You can skip 90% of the book to get to the one chapter that Huxley was obviously building to and even that was a let down.