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4.0 to 4.5 stars. An excellent novel as well as an important one. Those two concepts don't always go well together but this is one classic that is also a very good book.
Winner: Hugo (Retro) Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ...more
Winner: Hugo (Retro) Award for Best Science Fiction Novel ...more
* update 2016: On a world of distraction, a personal challenge, the ongoing relevance of Fahrenheit 451.
So Ray Bradbury’s dark vision of an illiterate society, as described in Fahrenheit 451, has not to pass in the USA. Books were never banned, at least not here. I know there are many other countries where books are heavily censored. In fact, just recently, the Chinese Communist government was accused of kidnapping several Hong Kong booksellers.
But here in America, we have plenty of reading choi ...more
So Ray Bradbury’s dark vision of an illiterate society, as described in Fahrenheit 451, has not to pass in the USA. Books were never banned, at least not here. I know there are many other countries where books are heavily censored. In fact, just recently, the Chinese Communist government was accused of kidnapping several Hong Kong booksellers.
But here in America, we have plenty of reading choi ...more
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In the future, Firemen burn books and everyone is entertained all their waking hours. Are we getting close?
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