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In the 8th grade I had a teacher who was a fanatic Ray Bradbury fan. I wasn't overly fond of her so by proxy I couldn't get myself to be overly fond of Mr. Bradbury. I'd always heard about Fahrenheit 451 but had never read it. I've read a couple of Ray Bradbury's books over the years and I'm always so impressed by either his foresight in the inventions and standards of the future or the way his ideas were taken and built upon to get us where we are today.
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A hand grenade in the war against ignorance. A hydrogen bomb in the war against subtlety.
I had never read this in school, and after all the publicity of Ray Bradbury's death, decided it was finally time to try it. I'm so glad I did. This is a very powerful read about the effect of books and literature in society-- a hypothetical society, but one which mirrors our own in many ways.
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Sep 20, 2011
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