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Fahrenheit 451
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.... more
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- Posted: Sep-21-2009
Fahrenheit 451 Review by Will Scott
Fahrenheit 451 written in the 1950's describes a future to which we still may be on our way. The book follows main character ,Guy Montag a fireman, though as ordinary as this sounds his job is to burn books. Books are burnt in this society because they don't want people to have thought or ideas....
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- Posted: Sep-21-2009
A firey burst of our society's degeneration
Simply put, society has always been caught up in the pursuit of happiness. And after so much time, we of the modern world have almost achieved it. The only thing that holds us back is the incessant racket caused by thinkers, and all the time we spend pondering their works, to gain no "fun" out of...
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- Posted: Sep-20-2009
A Great, Prophetic Work
Ray Bradbury is typically a novelist you read as a child or an adolescent, much like Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke. For whatever reason, I never read Bradbury as a young man (other than a tiny handful of shorter pieces), and I've only recently decided to correct that omission. I thought I...
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- Posted: Sep-20-2009
Chillingly Accurate
451?F refers to the trigger temperature for paper to burn (though 450?C is more popularly thought to be the right temperature - no matter, since `Celsius 451' just doesn't have the same ring).Set in a postmodern era, a lawless America has turned itself into an anti-intellectual state which...
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- Posted: Sep-19-2009
Excellent Read
My daughter has to read this for her 10th grade english class and I decided to check it out myself. It is not as well written or as compelling as 1984 but it is still a very good read. The author makes a number of excellent points. To me it felt like film noir mixed up with some comic book...
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- Posted: Aug-03-2009
Truth or tale?
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (the title referring to the temperature at which paper combusts) is breathtaking not because of beautiful prose, though Bradbury is an excellent writer, but because of the book's relevance to where the world and its inhabitants stand today. It's very unnerving to see...
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- Posted: Jul-11-2009
If you were forced to read it in school and hated it, give it another shot now.
I was forced to read Fahrenheit 451 as a high school sophomore and hated it. I thought it was boring and completely implausible and I wanted to burn it as soon as the unit was over (I didn't). Fast forward 10 years. For some reason I decided that I should go back and re-read all of the books I...
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- Posted: Jul-02-2009
What would you memorize?
Great book. Scary look into a possible future if the censors get their way. One of several books assigned to high school students which intrigued me. Several selections in the high school cannon are introspective of the human character. The value of this theme is obvious considering the...
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- Posted: Jun-26-2009
F. 451
I really enjoyed this book, but the story line was a little different then I had expected it to be. This is always a fun book to read, which I will be reading in the future as well.
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- Posted: Jun-24-2009
Fahrenheit 451
Very interesting and prescient, considering it was written 50 years ago - it really foresees the advent of the computer age and lowest common denominator mass media. Saw the film a few years ago and it remained in my mind.
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