I recently asked readers to vote on which book I should read next. Via blog comments and Twitter replies, it was determined that I should read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

I finished Brave New World last night, and it was a much better read than the Ludlum spy novel I read before it. I’m still chewing on the last few chapters and trying to decide what the point of the novel was, but I’m getting closer to an interpretation. If I come up with anything earth-shatteringly original, I’ll let you all know.

For now, I can say that I loved the book’s sociology. It’s not often that you see an author incorporate sociology into their writing, and Huxley’s approach was fairly surface-level, but he touched on a lot of sociological concepts that didn’t become mainstream until decades later. Read the rest of this entry…

I asked you to pick which book I should read next, and now that I’ve finished Apocalypse Watch, it’s time to count the votes and find out the result. Most of the votes came in over Twitter, so if you’re counting along at home, that may be why they don’t add up for you.

A few people voted for War and Peace, probably out of spite. Luckily, more people had my best interests in mind, so with nearly 60% of the vote, the book that I will be reading next is Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

Thanks for helping me choose, everyone. When I finish off Brave New World, I’ll put up a new list for you to choose from, and I’ll let you know my impressions of the book.