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The Book Club: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with Sen. Ted Cruz

The Book Club

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Is There a Promise of Happiness?

The book is about a woman in her 40s who has been programmed by society to be happy. She gets old and finds out that she's pregnant with the child of an abandoned factory worker. The man, John the Savage, takes up self-flagellation as punishment for being unhappy. He tries to live on his own but he punishes himself so much it turns into a movie.

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