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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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Jul 05, 2011 James rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: now-called-syfy, wanted-to-love

For what's supposedly a classic, and a short one at that, Fahrenheit 451 isn't really all a lot of people have hyped it up to be. The fact it took me a little over half this year to, with great relief, get to the last page should be testament enough to how invested I was not in the book. I hesitate, as my more knee-jerky side wouldn’t, to toss around words like “tedious” to “shitty" because I did enjoy the book when it took a merciful break from its more descriptive bits, which called for Hercul ...more

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Feb 07, 2010 Kay Prime rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, juvenile-young-adult, fiction-dystopian, fiction, the-halves

I'm a firm believer of the adage 'knowledge is power.' Bradbury's classic of a totalitarian world where books are burned, individuality is considered suspicious behavior, and intellect is punishable by death, has continued to appeal to my unwavering belief after all these years since my first exposure to this work in the eighth grade.

Though I appreciated the style of this young- adult novel more when I was a younger adult, the message is more chilling now than it has ever been. Sadly, Montag's w ...more

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Jan 13, 2013 Crystal rated it it was ok

I remember liking this book a lot more when I was a teenager. But upon rereading it, although I still find the topic alluring, I just can't get into the style of writing as much. Nor can I relate to Montag as much as before. ...more

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