Reviews for An Alternate Ending

Reviews For: An Alternate Ending

fledge 2008-01-09 ch 1,	abuseOf course everybody would like to see Lenina and John end up together, and I'm not sayibng it couldn't be done. However, this fic moves way too fast. It starts out well enough with the two of them discussing what John is going to do. But then it just rushes along through several weeks and months and finally a handful of >Savages< can overthrow the perfectly organised world state? And in some 300 words, too? Come, that's a bit rich! And how do you iomagine all those conditioned Alphas, Betas, ... to just play along with the new ways? It would need a whole book to get all that across. And of course Mustapha is most certainly not the villain you make him! He sacrifices his own happiness for that of others, adfter all...
becca 2007-12-15 ch 1, anon.	abusebrave new world is one of my favourite books ever . . . but i like your ending better than the original. however much i luv futuristic philoshy,i luv happy endings where people actually get love more. incidently,my other favourit book is gone with the wind. anyway,i luved it. ive always wished lenina and john could get together in the end. and ur version makes lenina more intelligent cos in the book shes kind of dumb (this is a good thing) x
Evil Penguin 2007-03-05 ch 1,	abuseHappy Ending that is nice to read after reading the book and being so thoroughly depressed. As much as I love it I realize how little practicality is in it and how much of an alteration you made to Bernard's speech patterns though - that kinda confused me. I still love it - do keep writing.
Riiiceballe 2007-02-05 ch 1,	abuseWow...This was lovely.
Cloud_LightFeather notlogge... 2006-06-21 ch 1, anon.	abuseThis was awesome, i read this book a few weeks ago, and happened to find your work, and i do rather enjoy the idea of this ending. If you ever were thinking about doing more writing like this, i think you should try and expand as much as possible onto this plot, whether it be before or after the take over. But kudos to your work and your writing -Cloud
radioactive freezer care be... 2006-05-28 ch 1, anon.	abuseDrefgart! Snizwit! Fear the burning sorbet! Yifga! Its powers are beyond all licking! Opiriot! Qiopa! Mushrooms, close the blinds. Coathangers, dance along! Liwerc! Echelon! Where angels go, trouble follows on neon orange rollerskates! Bumpus!
Sulfer101 2006-05-25 ch 1, anon.	abuseNot badly written. The ending we would have liked to see, at least from a human perspective, if not from a literary perspective. Huxley's ending is not entirely devoid of hope, though. I'd like to think that there were signs that some of these things you have written here could have come to pass anyway - if not for John, obviously, then for the others. Nice work.
Will 2006-01-09 ch 1, anon.	abuseA little pat and simplistic, but it really is how most of us would have liked to see it end. It betrays a certain lack of understanding of the book, but there's no law against wishful thinking. As narrative-heavy stories go, it's fairly respectable.
Pie 2006-01-03 ch 1, anon.	abuseOkay...
Bardlover 2005-12-09 ch 1,	abuseI liked it (especially the bit about technology never replacing God or Shakespeare), but I think the ending of the book should stand. It really hits home the theme.
shamrock12 2005-11-15 ch 1,	abuseGood, but loses the effect of the original analogic ending. Why would anyone choose to bear their own kids? IT HURTS LIKE HELL!
sarcastic 2005-10-31 ch 1, anon.	abuseI like this ending a whole lot better than Huxley's. I just finished reading Brave New World and I was disappointed at John, but this is so much better. THANK YOU!
Nancy 2005-10-05 ch 1, anon.	abusepretty good, albiet unrealistic to the tone of the book.
jaded image 2005-09-29 ch 1,	abuseI think I prefer this ending rather than the one in the book. John is put to better use than just hanging himself. I enjoyed this :)

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