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Originally Posted by issybird
Why not give reasons for your opinion, to further the discussion? Why doesn't it hold up? And what's wrong with outdated, especially in regard to scifi, as it seems to me that must go with the genre?
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The writing is dry. It feels dated. It's just one of those things you get a sense of as you read. [b]Brave New World[/i] has the same sense of dry and outdated.
These are the sort of books that I cannot call classics because for me, they don't hold up. They feel old. They don't feel relevant.