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Fahrenheit 451
This is Bradbury's best-known novel. The science fiction tale concerns censorship and anti-intellectualism, carried on in an alternate society that conducts huge book burnings as part of the social agenda. It is a spooky and yet uplifting book.
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
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
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1220 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
Powerful Book
Having not have read it in high school, this year I felt compelled to read it because of a sudden interest in Ray Bradbury.I regret having waited so long to read.Bradbury introduces themes that are more relevant today than ever before.My...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 30, 2008 Type: User Review |
fascinating great read
I am sad to say I had not read this book till age 27. What was wrong with my high school? No Bell Jar, no 451?
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
The Third Great Dystopian Novel
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" is one of his finest works. It was first published in October of 1953, and then serialized in the March - May issues of Playboy magazine. The novel originally began as a short story "Bright Phoenix", though that...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Those who don't build, must burn.........
Good read!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is the story of Guy Montag in a future where most people live their lives in willful ignorance and the job of firemen is to find books and burn them. The story follows Guy, who is a firemen, as his new neighbor gets him to open...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
451
Fahrenheit 451. 451 is the temperature at which paper burns. How did we find this out? Learning, and with learning comes books, and according to this story with books comes burning. This story follows one man, one guy actually. Guy Montag is...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Prophetic censorship
An interesting story of book censorship and the consequences of mankind if we allow this to get out of had. This version of the book has an interview with the author at the ned which I really enjoyed reading.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Disappointing. Does not deserve to be a 'classic'
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
A distressing world; a heartwarming story
Mention "Farenheit 451" in casual conversation, and the casual response is (especially if you are highschool or lower): "Ooh. Did it freak you out?" And yet, is the "Farenheit 451" of our cultural stereotype all that accurate? Yes, Bradbury's...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
451 F
Fahrenheit 451 depicts the book about Guy Montag who is shaken out of his complacency by a sixteen-year-old, Clarisse. She show Montag the wonders of nature and Montag begins to question his job of burning books because he sees them as a gateway...
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