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In a dystopian future, Guy Montag worked as a fireman who burned books, since reading books was forbidden. The paper in books burns at 451 degrees Fahreinheit, giving the book its title. It was a controlled society where people were surrounded by TV walls telling them what to think. Montag meets Clarisse, a seventeen yesr old girl, who tells him about a past world where people used their senses, and were able to think and converse. He also befriends an old professor, Faber, and discusses the val
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Obviously Bradbury loved books, the idea of books; the idea of open knowledge. So his nightmare would be to have Firemen come and burn all the books. He wrote his nightmare.
I liked the book, but I wouldn't say I loved it, or even thought it is still extremely relevant for today. I can appreciate that at the time when it was written, back in the 50s when McCarthy was rooting out communists, and the cold war was covering the world with dictators, it would have been a stark warning of the way thing ...more
I liked the book, but I wouldn't say I loved it, or even thought it is still extremely relevant for today. I can appreciate that at the time when it was written, back in the 50s when McCarthy was rooting out communists, and the cold war was covering the world with dictators, it would have been a stark warning of the way thing ...more
Aug 21, 2012
Mai
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Dec 21, 2013
Marco
marked it as to-read
Oct 07, 2014
Sanskriti Nagar
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Aug 18, 2016
Bluesberryfields
marked it as sci-fi
Oct 11, 2019
Eowyn
marked it as to-read
