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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Start date: January 15, 2022

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Sep 07, 2008 T.A. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real." - Ray Bradbury

There was a time when I considered paranoid dystopic books like this as quaint and relics of cold war anxiety. Nearing the end of the Bush administration in 2008, I can't help but feel this book is more vital than it ever has been.

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Aug 18, 2013 Aaron rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The classic. Read it again. Gleaned some more from it this time, probably 30 years after reading it the first time....

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Apr 17, 2010 Susie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: re-read

One of my favorite rereads. Books ARE dangerous

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Mar 17, 2017 Danielle Thomas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: ray-bradbury

Loved it. Reread many times.

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Sep 03, 2007 Cindywho rated it liked it · review of another edition

I'd never read it, so I finally got around to it. The part that most struck me was the wife who was so immersed in the television and radio media that she barely interacted with anything else. A prediction of submission to the noise of media and the depression that goes with it... The male/female dynamics were dated and the end simplified the effects of bombing. I've read one of the stories included in the volume: the Playground - a very dark look at childhood, but true enough to be effective. ( ...more

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