It took me a while to get through this book. While the opening chapters promise an interesting premise of this alternate future world where humans are manufactured to consume and produce, eliminating the family structure and the idea of relationships, it quickly devolves into a sanctimonious, poorly told, poorly explained, and poorly executed finger wag of the consumerist lifestyle. 
 I read this understanding that it is a product of its time, but it was still difficult to swallow the overt racism of this future society where the "civilized" people were all White, and the "savages" were all minorities. That the one savage that comes to live in the "civilized world" is White as well only makes the racism worst. (he is ostracized and marginalized for being White by those terrible brown people) 
 The characters weren't even cartoons of people, they were barely cutouts, to carry out the incomprehensible plot. I'm not sure why this book is so revered, but whatever the reason, I certainly missed it.