false 29651035 1197963 119787 0345342968 9780345342968 567 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176400211m/119787.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176400211s/119787.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119787.Fahrenheit_451 3.97 6492 The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnights runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...

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