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Rating: 3.5 stars
In many ways, Fahrenheit 451 reads like a combination of short stories that flow into one another. There are segments of the book that depict different phases of the main character's perspective.
It is interesting to read this classic work of speculative fiction and compare it to more recent novels with similar concepts (Moxyland and Oryx and Crake, to name a couple). It is interesting how some of these concepts still hold true.
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In many ways, Fahrenheit 451 reads like a combination of short stories that flow into one another. There are segments of the book that depict different phases of the main character's perspective.
It is interesting to read this classic work of speculative fiction and compare it to more recent novels with similar concepts (Moxyland and Oryx and Crake, to name a couple). It is interesting how some of these concepts still hold true.
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This wasn't quite what I expected it to be. I was expecting a political dystopia akin too 1984 but this was actually far more surreal and confusing.
The reader is thrown straight into the main character's life and bits of exposition are drip-fed throughout but I didn't feel like this was happening at a rate where I could properly follow the plot. There were some fantastic intense moments (view spoiler) but I found the plot jumping around betwee ...more
The reader is thrown straight into the main character's life and bits of exposition are drip-fed throughout but I didn't feel like this was happening at a rate where I could properly follow the plot. There were some fantastic intense moments (view spoiler) but I found the plot jumping around betwee ...more
Third time reading. Still classic. I read a lot of books when I was twelve, and I'm grateful that this was one of them.
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I tried listening to this on audiobook but one of the cds was scratched. I liked that the book was divided into three parts but I wish there had been chapters for each part. Some of the story rambled on and on. I found it difficult to finish, mostly because I was just tired of reading. I have read so many books about societies were books are banned and burned.
It was fine, but I will not be reading it again. It reminded me a bit of Kafka's Metamorphosis with his style of writing. I prefer chapte ...more
It was fine, but I will not be reading it again. It reminded me a bit of Kafka's Metamorphosis with his style of writing. I prefer chapte ...more
I loved it! But the end was a bit disappointing. It felt a slightly wishy washy, lots of speculation about what might be going on back in the city, what might be going on with his wife. Lots of thoughts and ideas and not a great deal of anything happening. Aside from that, it was a wonderful book.
I think I may have read this a zillion years ago, but it wasn't worth re-reading, IMO. I didn't find it at all gripping, and although the writing was poetic, there wasn't much of a plot. It's funny how Bradbury was able to predict the ubiquity of television and the decline of philosophical thought, but thought the future would be full of people who spent all their time outdoors engaged in physical activity.
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