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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: August 1, 2013

Finish date: August 31, 2013

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Aug 2013 - Fahrenheit 451

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Apr 15, 2016 Cecily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopian-apocalyptic, film-good-or-better-than-book, scifi-future-speculative-fict, usa-and-canada, crime-detective-mystery, film-tv-version-not-good

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This is a book about the power of books that is itself steeped with references, both explicit and indirect, to the great works that permeate our culture so thoroughly that we do not always notice them - until they’re gone. Bradbury shows us the horror of a hedonistic but unhappy world where books and ideas are banned in the futile pursuit of the illusion of hap ...more

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Jan 20, 2009 Beth Given rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was a reread for me, but it felt new since I only remembered a small piece of the beginning and a smaller piece of the ending. Lots to think about in this book, and I wonder how much I missed since there was lots of poetic symbolism going on, it seemed like. I like the overarching message of not being so busy that you forget to really think about things. And I like the message that reading a good book helps you do that.

One of my friends warned that this book has a lot of swearing in it, and ...more

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Jun 26, 2008 Freddy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

This book, I must say, is quite complicated. However, despite being abundant amounts of symbolism, literary elements, and complex plots, it was interesting (which was surprising due to the fact that I'm usually extremely bored when it comes to long difficult books with small fonts). The book takes place in the future, where the purpose of firemen is, not to put out fires, but instead to start them and burn the books that are now banned. Guy Montag, the protagonist in the story, is wiling to end ...more

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