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Aug 08, 2010
Thomas
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was overall a pretty good book. It tells the story of a futuristic USA where firemen start fires instead of stopping them. It was a short book, my copy was only 147 pages, and the action moves pretty quickly. The ending was pretty good and kept with the overall theme of the book. All in all a good book forshadowing a possible near bookless world.
Perhaps I was expecting too much (what with this often being hyped as ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVA!!), but it didn't grab me. The premise is interesting, the plot is good, but the delivery somehow put me off. I hope this isn't indicative of Bradbury's usual style as there are some other of his novels I'm interested in trying.
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