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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: December 27, 2015

Finish date: March 30, 2018

Discussion: CENSORSHIP vs FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Why we're reading this: To discuss relevant issues of censorship.
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CENSORSHIP vs FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Fahrenheit 451 Part 3 : Burning Bright
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Nov 24, 2014 Miquel Reina rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, classics, lyrical, mustread, pearl, top-books, thinking, science-fiction

Like the review I wrote for George Orwell's 1984, I think that Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that every reader fan of retro-futuristic and dystopian societies should read (and also the rest too ;D). Fahrenheit 451 is a story that sometimes is hard, not only for the pessimistic world that Bradbury describes but especially for its characters, but this is precisely where I think it lies the genius of this work of Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 does not have the typical fairytale story structur ...more

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Jun 30, 2015 Amy (Other Amy) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: apocalypse-now-and-then, books-on-books, study-of-evil, they-burned-what, bandits-pirates-and-thieves, adulting-is-hard, reviewed, 2016, the-world-adores-and-i-do-not, darwin-award

It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and the charcoal ruins of history.

Reading with my inner child, part whatever and one

Me: Wow, that is a gutsy beginning, li ...more

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Jul 20, 2016 Zorlon Zorlon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Bizarrely, I'd never read this until now, decades after my self-righteous teenage years. It's up there in the smarm-pantheon with "Catcher in the Rye" and "On the Road", I guess, judging by the several hundred thousand desultory high-school reviews.
It's an excellent book, different than what I'd expected. Weaned on weird, dystopian shit like Orwell, Kafka, and Bunwarmer, I thought it'd be bleaker than it turned out and this was a pleasant surprise. Don't get me wrong, it is singularly unpleasant ...more

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