Having a bookreport due the next day and this lying around in the open, I figured it was a great way to get an easy A. However, I was mistaken in thinking it'd take only an hour or so in reading. I didn't account for how bored I'd get. I'm sure it was something great back then and I'm not saying it's not great now, it just seemed rather too long. And if this book came out now, it wouldn't be as gr... read more
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas arI
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman
"Unrealistic, perhaps even heavy-handed at times, but still a brilliant book as far as I'm concerned. Bradbury's attack on people's banality and their dependence on technology, in my eyes, rings true like little else, not to mention that, strictly as a novel, it's also an absolute page turner, very-well written, featuring a great cast of characters, and is, in turns, both funny and terrifying"
"If you like 1984, then this is definitly something you should read! It is about a future where firemen BURN houses with books, instead of putting out fires. Guy Montag is a fireman who didn't question his actions until he meets seventeen year-old Clarisse, who tells him about a past where people thought and read. "
Marian added this to a list 2 years, 11 months ago
"Suorastaan pelottavan ajankohtainen teos ja samalla sekä huikea ylistyslaulu taiteelle ylipäänsä et epäilemättä kovimpia ja kiehtovimpia dystopiatarinoita tähän asti."
Elizardc added this to a list 3 years, 3 months ago
"Ironically, students at the Venado Middle School in Irvine, Calif. received copies of the book with scores of words--mostly "hells" and "damns"--blacked out (the novel is about book burning and censorship). After receiving complaints from parents and being contacted by reporters, school officials said the censored copies would no longer be used (1992). "
Lindsay added this to a list 5 years, 3 months ago
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