Chrome YellowAldous Huxley
Chrome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley · first published 2017
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…we disagree on "The Unberable Lightness of Being", but that is fine, I guess. I think Murakami is at his best in "Norwegian Wood" and "South of the Border" -- in different ways. You might also enjoy "Chrome Yellow" by Huxley. For something a bit different, try: "American Essays" edited by Shaw (http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000...). If you enjoyed the books on Steve Jobs, you might…
on “My Summer Reading List” ↗…the world. There were huge aisles of random throwaway junk, games and other silliness and two books on Chinese history. Nor did they have Bertrand Russel's Principles of Mathematics or Aldous Huxley's Chrome Yellow. I love books. Paper books. I have around a thousand of them. But I won't cry for the passing of the big-box stores if they're bent on becoming the Wal-Mart of reading.
on “Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead” ↗…of its intolerable tedium. At present people in search of pleasure naturally tend to congregate in large herds and to make a noise; in future their natural tendency will be to seek solitude and quiet. Chrome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
on “Should you delete social media? That’s the wrong question.” ↗…proliferation and consolidation of wealth is a usurper of such relations and events to spawn current literature, in the now. Having read the seminal Huxley work, I'm now looking forward to consuming Chrome Yellow, with verve.
on “Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed” ↗