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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: July 1, 2020

Finish date: July 31, 2020

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Aug 25, 2014 Ellie 9218 rated it it was ok

Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic city, where all books have been banned. The story centers around fireman Guy Montag, whose job is to seek out and burn books and set fires to houses that contain books, instead of putting them out. The plot follows Montag's journey /internal struggle about book censorship.

It was an interesting concept and thought provoking, but I found Ray Bradbury’s writing style SO confusing. The prose was very dull and for being such a short book, it was very long winded. ...more

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Jun 19, 2019 Shayney rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books

3.5 stars
I couldn’t imagine living in a world where books were forbidden and not just forbidden, but being caught with a book could equal travesty. Your home being burned down. You being arrested. Or simply death.

Ideas come from books, or you can get ideas from what you’ve read in books. They spark your imagination and they can get you thinking a way that THEY don’t want you to. And that’s dangerous. So now firemen are in charge of starting fires and destroying every book they find, and the hou ...more

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Apr 11, 2025 Montse rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 100-books, biblioteca, audiobook

Le iba a dar tres estrellas porque si bien la premisa es muy interesante, algo me falto en la historia. Tal vez cerrar el círculo de los suicidios y la tristeza general de la gente y no solo dejarlo en la quema de libros. Peeeeero le doy cuatro por la manera en la que está escrito, no solo las descripciones despiertan emociones sino el modo de escribir de Bradbury; el repetir ciertas frases, el decir lo mismo de manera diferente, y otros recursos que utiliza hicieron que sintiera la lectura, "fr ...more

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Apr 23, 2018 Summer rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, audiobook, book-club, 2018

This one was quite tough to get through. I loved the philosophy at the end and the implication of the story, but there was a lot of stream-of-consciousness writing before I got to the good bits. I’m glad I read it, given its status as a classic and the current political climate, but it wasn’t one of my more enjoyable reads.

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