“Brave New World is as startling today as the day it was written because most of what Huxley postulated upon has happened to some degree or another.” – “Curledup”
“A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present-- considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.” Muze
"He has satirized the imminent spiritual trustification of mankind, and has made rowdy and impertinent sport of the World State whose motto shall be Community, Identity, Stability....So here we have [Mr. Huxley], as entertainingly atrabilious as ever he was...mocking the Fords, the Hitlers, the Mussolinis..."
New York Times Book Review - John Chamberlain (02/07/1996)
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers--rather than his cleverness and his wit, which one admires and forgets."
Saturday Review
"'Point Counter Point' is the modern 'Vanity Fair', and Mr. Huxley is the Thackeray 'de nos jours'....It might have been said in its own day that 'Vanity Fair' was the richest novel in substance and the most comprehensive that had appeared in English. The same thing might be said today of 'Point Counter Point'."
New Republic - Robert M. Lovett (12/05/1928)
"Out of colossal disillusion Huxley has made 'Point Counter Point' the most scintillating, the most bitter and the most serious of his novels. It is a notable piece of work and one of which this decade may very well be proud."
Lovett
"A powerful and vitriolic indictment of the intellectual world."
Bender
"Unflagging in its spirits and unflagging in its intelligence, throughout more than four hundred pages it vindicates Mr. Huxley's right to be considered the most able of our contemporary satirists and the most perfect representative of the mood which he describes."
Bender
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