Books you're currently reading???

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Originally Posted by Ibram

Island, Aldous Huxley.

Wonderful counterpoint to Brave New World; a true utopia, one that so far seems absolutely perfect to me, 176 pages in.

That's a good one, too. Do you think Huxley makes use of drugs in both books--soma in BNW and the moksha medicine in Island--for a specific reason? Sort of to say drugs can either set you free, in Island's case, or enslave you, as in BNW?

Or was it just because he did most of his writing while high?

Those are two very good books and I highly recommend them, though I did like BNW more.