I recently finished Aldous Huxley's book, ISLAND.
It was written near the end of his life in the early 1960's, and it is filled with philosophy popular at the time or soon after - free love/sex, mind expanding drugs, Eastern philospohy, etc. etc. These points of view were brought forth within a story about a utopian island in Asia.
I had looked forward to reading this book from what I had heard about it. I was somewhat disappointed. There was very little story and a lot of preaching about how bad/wrong the "West" is about everything and how sex, drugs and Buddha could save mankind - Buddha might, but not in the preachy way of this book.
No, I did not care very much for the book. The ending was not even a happy one.
The one positive thing I can say is that I do think I really got the concept of "not-thought" at one point in reading this book. That has value. It is along the lines of another book I talked about a while back, THE POWER OF NOW; I think that ISLAND is specifically mentioned in it.
If you read ISLAND and don't like it, then don't say I didn't warn you.
