I don't recommend reading this after high school. What seemed eerie and cautionary at 16 reads like completely anachronistic farce at 32. They say "Oh Ford" instead of "Oh God."
Although this book gets lumped in with 1984, Orwell's future is much bleaker. Brave New World is somewhat ambivalent about its future vision, as everyone ends up pretty happy and society is stable. Things don't turn out well for the one sorry dude who likes Shakespeare and hates bliss. And they even ship off the independently-minded, cool kids to island communes. That sounds like magnet schooling.
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