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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: September 1, 2020

Finish date: September 30, 2020

Discussion: 2020 Monthly Reads

Why we're reading this: Our September 2020 group read, for "read a banned book during ALA's Banned Books week"…more
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Nov 18, 2016 Maryam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, classics, science-fiction, scifi-fantasy-2016

I had this book like forever on my to-be-read list and finally I got the chance to read it.
It’s sci-fi and poetic at the same time. A true work of literature I can say. It says story of a future in which people don’t think, don’t talk ah they talk but nonsense, they don’t sit and think about something specific that matters. In this world of apparent fun Firemen don’t stop fire, they start it. They put books on fire and sometime the owner of the books too.
It’s about self-realization, waking of fr ...more

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Jul 13, 2007 stephanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, war-literature

i knew i would be into this book simply from the back cover blurb - the concept of book burning has always fascinated me. (anyone else remember that scene in indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark??)

and that's just the beginning. the whole idea of writing a book that could eventually go up into flames - and thus disappear, and possibly never have existed, just astounded me. i was impressionable then, but i still think it packs a whollop of a story. ...more

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Mar 27, 2008 Rae rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

The classic about censorship and book burning. Everyone should read this.

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Jun 01, 2012 Jen Peters rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Good book about books :) Easy read abour a possible future full of mindless robot-type people and how society could end up. Glad I don't live this life. ...more

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