Reading on October 19th

While reading Brave New World, it's hard to imagine Aldous Huxley as anything short of a prophet.  Many of the things that he described Brave New World have come to fruition in one way or another.  it's really scary how close we are to some of these things.

It's a really good book so far.  I really like how he replaced "God" with "Ford" in the characters' minds.  Where they would say "oh, God!" now they say "oh, Ford!" or "cleanliness is next to Fordliness."  Good stuff.

And when talking about psychological matters, they reference Freud, but they think that Ford and Freud are the same person, but that they are both the same name for different aspects of Ford.

Good stuff.

I read 83 pages yesterday, leaving me with 4175 pages yet to read, and an average of 57.19 pages per day to read to be done with everything by the end of the year.

Finished Reading
The Star Wars Trilogy by George Lucas (720 pages)
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (503 pages)
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (272 pages)
The Traitor Queen by Trudi Canavan (509 pages)
Texas A&M: Traditions and Spirit by Carolyn Bible (80 pages)

Currently Reading
Brave New World Aldous Huxley (on page 140 of 259 pages, 54%)

To-Read
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (261 pages)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (528 pages)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1037 pages)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (190 pages)
Orientalism by Edward W. Said (395 pages)
Notes from the Underground, The Double and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (464 pages)
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (845 pages)
On Writing Well by William Knowlton Zinsser (336 pages)