{"product_id":"island-by-aldous-huxley","title":"'Island' by Aldous Huxley","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"555\"\u003eThe fact that Vintage did a gimmick “3-D cover + glasses included” edition of \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eIsland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is honestly perfect because \u003cem data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"152\"\u003eIsland\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those books permanently trapped between utopia and hallucination anyway.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"555\"\u003eStill suspicious of modernity, still chemically and spiritually obsessed, but trying — perhaps a little desperately — to imagine a civilisation that hasn’t completely surrendered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"1159\"\u003eThis edition itself is kind of beautiful in that very late-2000s Vintage way where publishers briefly remembered books could be objects instead of thumbnails. The neon bird spiral looks like a prog-rock poster crossed with airport futurism. Then you open it and there are literal cardboard 3D glasses tucked inside like some tiny relic of optimistic publishing culture. Publishers trying to create tactile events around reading right before platform monoculture flattened book design into algorithmic beige.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1552\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1212\"\u003eIsland\u003c\/em\u003e is obsessed with altered perception — moksha medicine, attentiveness, consciousness expansion, seeing differently rather than merely thinking differently. Earlier generations arrived at \u003cem data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1676\"\u003eIsland\u003c\/em\u003e after \u003cem data-start=\"1683\" data-end=\"1700\"\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e. Contemporary readers often arrive at \u003cem data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1747\"\u003eIsland\u003c\/em\u003e through burnout, wellness collapse, psychedelic discourse, anti-optimisation politics, or post-digital exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1552\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2005 Vintage Classics edition with original 3D glasses still present. Most surviving copies have lost them. Clean modern paperback. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44571990425683,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext_88.png?v=1778108443","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/island-by-aldous-huxley","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}