If I were to sum up this book in one word… or number… it would be 2012. Remember? That one year when we all should have died because some ancient Mayan calendar predicted that natural catastrophes would devastate our way of life? Whether or not people actually believed the hype, there was a subtle sense of urgency that…

Aldous Huxley is… an interesting author to say the least. Some of you may have heard of him because of his novel Brave New World that details a dystopian society full of designer babies and a drug that sedates the population. I wouldn’t say he is a great story-teller since his books tend to be heavier on philosophy…