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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
by
Harold Bloom
-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
Hardcover, 147 pages
Published
January 11th 2001
by Chelsea House Publications
(first published December 2000)
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Although I� d read plenty of Bradbury, I� d never come across a copy of Fahrenheit 451 until my junior year of high school. I was told in a journalism class that it had once been banned. I was told the same thing about The Naked Ape, Soul on Ice, Huckleberry Finn. I read Fahrenheit solely to find out why it had been banned. And because it was Bradbury.[return][return]By my junior year of high school, I had a quite well developed superiority complex. For years I� d felt very different from my fri...more
read as a nook book I am rather sure that I read this years ago. It was chosen as our book group selection, because of Mr. Bradbury dying during the past year. It takes place in the future, and features Guy Montag as a fireman who burns books, and the houses in which they reside. His wife is rather spacey--has listening buds in her ear, and has persuaded him to buy three walls which act as entertainment, and take over the need for any meaningful conversation. He hoards books, and gets in trouble...more
Back in my undergraduate days I was lucky enough to hear Ray Bradbury speak in person. (He was a keynote speaker at a conference for college newspaper staffers). He was so funny and so inspirational that decades later I still have the notes I took during his speech and during the workshop the next day. This dynamic and imaginative man has given us loads of fascinating and creepy books and stories (and inspired me to write a few lesser efforts of my own). I loved The Martian Chronicles and Dande...more
Feb 01, 2013
Joshua
added it
listening to the audiobook read by the author. Great book, but Bradbury sounds a bit like Garfield.
Interesting how differently this book has struck me than at the first reading. When I was a preteen, this book made me feel cautiously fearful of a totalitarian state. Now it has made me think about how I prefer to be disconnected from others and fill myself with entertainment and shallow things, rather than really see the world.
Interesting how differently this book has struck me than at the first reading. When I was a preteen, this book made me feel cautiously fearful of a totalitarian state. Now it has made me think about how I prefer to be disconnected from others and fill myself with entertainment and shallow things, rather than really see the world.
Bruciare i libri � come annientare l'animo umano e la sua libert� di pensiero. Sempre attuale, in ogni tempo e in ogni luogo. Ed � il paradosso pi� efficace: un libro che parla di libri da bruciare (pazza per Bradbury oltre che per Godel!)
Are we NOW truly very distant from the popular society depicted over 40 yrs ago? People are cocooned in their individualized bubble of technology communicating via their technology to others; even those seated in the same room!
i liked it but it was kinda confusing and hard to understand at times. but i loved the wonderful insight he had into the future
Apr 03, 2013
Fred Kuentz
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One of so many books they ruined by forcing you to read them and write a report on them in high school.
This book was interesting, and had very good morals. It wasn't my usual genre but it was well rounded.
I finally made it to this classic! You know the story: in a dystopic future, books are banned and firemen race around burning them. I'll leave it at that so if you've never read it, you'll discover this brilliant novel by Bradbury and wonder why you hadn't read it sooner.
This ranks up there with The Fountainhead for me because it tells such a great story of how we as a culture continue to refine, reduce, shrink, and water down our most valuable aspects of culture in favor of the quick, the easy, and the enjoyable. The author's coda at the end really hit home and reinforced this concept for me.
The biggest mistake I see us making as a culture is the drive to not offend anyone. It's OK to be upset. It's OK to be offended. Like Ray Bradbury says in the coda (parap...more
The biggest mistake I see us making as a culture is the drive to not offend anyone. It's OK to be upset. It's OK to be offended. Like Ray Bradbury says in the coda (parap...more
I read this in HS and h e appreciated it more as time has gone in and I have grown...
A true classic that forebodes how we will be our own detriment. As attention spans decrease and the prevalence of technological pacifiers increase I fear the time will come sooner rather than later.
strange ending.....but had a really good point to the story :)
A genius and scary look into a possible future with no books
OMG this book is classic and clearly is inspiration for many many other books and movies. I love dystopian literature and this one is now in my top 5.
Wow! Once you overlook the profanity, there is so much more this book than my eighth grade mind did perceive. Bradbury was prophetic in this creative & captivating art.
Nov 02, 2011
Sydne9a
added it
its okay...
Jun 28, 2009
Flavia Penido
marked it as wish-list
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Amazing!!
A good re-read. Bradbury foreshadows so much about our society and technology even though written in the 1950's.
Chosen by Newton South High School as "The book" for 2008-2009, every member of the school community is asked to read "Fahrenheit 451" so that we can talk about it together. This is a science fiction futurist story, along the lines of Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World" and George Orwell's "1984." Even though it was written in the 1950's there are certainly themes that are relevant today.
Instant classic. Deep, provocative, and to the point.
REVIEW 2:
A deep, compelling book. Uses plot depth and moral grayness to create an atmosphere of oppression. A wonderfully bleak view of the future, showing the world where our technology gets the better of us. One of the finest novels out there, period.
REVIEW 2:
A deep, compelling book. Uses plot depth and moral grayness to create an atmosphere of oppression. A wonderfully bleak view of the future, showing the world where our technology gets the better of us. One of the finest novels out there, period.
One of the better distopia sci fi books. It's well written and well thought out, everything is brought together nicely. Maybe not a real page turner, but definitely a good read.
I honestly believe that people burning books en masse would drive me to violent actions. Then we'll see who's apathetic...
Another great look at governments interactions with people and how true some of the ideas in this book are holding true.
It's an amazing book, one of the best i think.
May 21, 2013
Margaret B. Kelly
marked it as to-read
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Bloom is a literary critic, and currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies.
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