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Island
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Island

by Aldous Huxley

Recommended by Jordan Peterson and Aubrey Marcus

Recommended by Jordan Peterson and Aubrey Marcus

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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science Fiction, and Philosophy.

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an age...

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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science Fiction, and Philosophy.

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Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson

Clinical psychologist and author

Island by Aldous Huxley a book from my great books list | The beauty of Island was seeing how a system could work en masse, and it was my first exposure to rewriting the rules of how everything could be and understanding that we can just change everything.
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