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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: December 27, 2015

Finish date: March 30, 2018

Discussion: CENSORSHIP vs FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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CENSORSHIP vs FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Fahrenheit 451 Part 3 : Burning Bright
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Feb 18, 2012 Paul rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: end-of-world-dystopian-apocalyptic

Brief and easy to read dystopian novel that has not dated as much as it might have, given that it was written almost 60 years ago. Bradbury's dystopia is remarkably prescient, given that TV is dominant on four walls in a room with reality shows the most popular. The story is well known; Guy Montag is a fireman, and firemen now are responsible not for putting out fires, but for burning books, which are now banned. Montag begins to see another way of thinking and rebels.
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Jan 14, 2017 Damon rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

One of the better stories by Ray Bradbury. It is a paranoid tail of censorship and book burning; about a government trying to control what the public think in the midst of some messy and under-reported war with a foreign super power.

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Jun 06, 2012 Jonfaith rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: speculativelyspeaking

As Karen noted, the contemporary reader knows the narrative. There are no surprises, yet I found it sublime.

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Sep 29, 2010 [Name Redacted] rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: futurity, classics, society, philosophy

A childhood favorite!

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Oct 29, 2013 Antonio Gallo rated it really liked it

Shelves: digitale, autore, futuro, bibliomania, edizione-kindle, identità, classici, fantascienza

Fahrenheit 451 è un romanzo di fantascienza distopica di Ray Bradbury, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1953. La storia è ambientata in un futuro in cui i libri sono stati proibiti dal governo e i pompieri, invece di spegnere gli incendi, li appiccano per bruciare i libri. Il protagonista, Guy Montag, è un pompiere che inizia a dubitare della sua professione quando inizia a pensare al significato dei libri che sta bruciando. Alla fine, Montag decide di fuggire dalla città e di trovare un gruppo ...more

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Nov 18, 2010 Jannine Robinson rated it liked it · review of another edition

Gloomy, post war paranoia and misery. Aargh I get it, we make our own choices and deal with the consequences yadda yadda. Not a fan of this stuff and seems like it was written in a hurry.

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