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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: June 1, 2019

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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
By Marta ౨ৎ˚ · 5 posts · 17 views

last updated Jun 15, 2019 12:10PM

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May 11, 2018 Aqsa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Okay, so I wasn't sure about this one at all but it pulled me in from the first line to be honest and I'm glad to have read it and understood what messages it gave. It's not about just burning books and living a life where you are so damn busy to even think. It's so much more really.
It was an eye opener and it was something I knew-something we all know-but we don't really say it or even believe it.

We all live in this amazing world where we have so much to be grateful for, but we never are. We ar Okay, so I wasn't sure about this one at all but it pulled me in from the first line to be honest and I'm glad to have read it and understood what messages it gave. It's not about just burning books and living a life where you are so damn busy to even think. It's so much more really.
It was an eye opener and it was something I knew-something we all know-but we don't really say it or even believe it.

We all live in this amazing world where we have so much to be grateful for, but we never are. We are so advanced in everything and yet we don't have time to appreciate a simple thing, a little beauty, some part of nature, or even ourselves. We are so damn absorbed in our activities that we don't even know why we're doing them. We don't have time for anyone and yet we have time for all the stupid stuff. We complain about everything and are thankful for nothing. We think only we know everything there is to know and yet we have no real knowledge of much. We think we're spending our time in the best possible way when we do know deep inside that we aren't. We do get time but we'd rather spend it doing something we are habitual to do than thinking whether we should be doing it at all. We have all the emotions and feels for the fictional world out there but we are stones when it comes to those who are close to us. Why is that? Why do we easily listen and respond to those who are virtually present than those who are right next to us? It's sad really, even pathetic.

Are You Happy?

Don't lie though-not even to yourself!

There is so much that could be said about this one, but I won't. I recommend you read it-and figure something out by yourself.

I wanna add something my friend Patty said about this:

"I think it’s hard for a book like this to have the impact it would have had in 1953. The world had just gone through WWII when Nazis did burn lots of books.

Since then, readers have had access to increasingly sophisticated science fiction, including my favourite old Twilight Zone. All the sci-fi movies, TV, and novels have made it harder to surprise or shock us.

His future of enormous TVs was predicted before much of the world had any TVs at all. Australia didn’t start TV broadcasting until 1956, I think!" ...more

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Feb 09, 2018 Megan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Even 60 years later, Fahrenheit 451 is a timeless classic that transcends time itself. The themes of censorship, which leads to a culture that is knowledge-crippled and unable to learn from its mistakes because history has been eradicated, are very relevant today. In 2018, we are constantly bombarded by stimuli on our phones, tablets, TV's etc, that, without us realizing, is siphoning out any time, appreciation, or discipline for learning, self-reflection, spending time with family, and apprecia ...more

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