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Read in February, 2007
Literature has no place in the dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451, where people spend days listening to eerily-iPod-like "shells," and watching reality programs on big-screen televisions. Fire no longer threatens homes, but firemen still exist for burning books, incendiary literature being the danger. Guy Montag (a superb literary name, I must say), one of these fireman, meets a young woman who makes him believe that there is more to life than distraction, that conversation and thought,...more
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Read this a long time ago (10 yrs?) and really enjoyed it back then. I recently read the short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury and when I found out it was what Farenheit 451 grew from, I decided its about time to refresh myself with the book.
Link to "The Pedestrian" online
http://englischlehrer.de/texts/pedestria...
I finished this one and found that I still think its a great book!
Link to "The Pedestrian" online
http://englischlehrer.de/texts/pedestria...
I finished this one and found that I still think its a great book!
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I love (when I say "love," I mean "LOVE!")Ray Bradbury but I've just never been crazy about 451. My favorite part is the group in the woods that take on the names of books and live to keep them alive... that's the kind of poetic Bradbury twist that gets me every time. But I don't really care about the rest of the plot.
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Read in January, 1982
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People who like to play with matches.
I saw the film first, in fact I've seen it several times. I can't say if I would've enjoyed it as much had I not already had a very clear picture of Montag in my head. That said, the fact that I did make the effort to read this particular book and not one of his many others says a lot about how important this book it.
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Read in January, 1972
Sometimes classics deserve to be classics. And what book lover could fail to list this book at some point, being a book about saving the world of books.
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