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What Members Thought
Thought-provoking work. Many ideas and implications on censorship, and the dumbing-down of our culture. We see this today.
One take-away: if you have reason to memorize a book, make sure it's a good one!
I understand and support this book as required reading for high schoolers. The Bradbury book I had to read in high school was Dandelion Wine and I remember not being a fan.
With Fahrenheit 451, I thought it could have been so much more. Better-developed characters, story more fleshed out, so that' ...more
One take-away: if you have reason to memorize a book, make sure it's a good one!
I understand and support this book as required reading for high schoolers. The Bradbury book I had to read in high school was Dandelion Wine and I remember not being a fan.
With Fahrenheit 451, I thought it could have been so much more. Better-developed characters, story more fleshed out, so that' ...more
really good except for the part where ray bradbury is a raving lunatic racist/sexist who thinks minorities are The (or at least A) cause of doom in the country (he said it nicely and subtly so it may look like im exaggerating but im not really)
May 16, 2009
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Dec 25, 2009
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