Tuesday Grey
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I thought this book was dreadfully boring and extremely painful to read. The world building also sucks. I couldn't tell whether something was a metaphor or a description of some part of this alternate future. I also found it to be pretty pretentious? It's like listening to your Baby Boomer grandpa saying "These kids these days with their J-Lo's and their hashtags! They keep on getting dumber and dumber!".
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Maria Eduarda Oliveira
I had this feeling too... I think that the debates and thoughts this book brings are valid, but has something about intelligence superiority that it's hard to swallow. Like, "oh, this guy is from University x and he read 10 books, so he's smart and this another dude is dumb because he hasn't read a single thing". I mean, this is questionable. There are a lot of kinds of intelligence and people that aren't producing their own books, but sharing their thoughts and culture through conversations. Anyways.
Kaitlyn
this book may be hard to follow if you don't understand the way Bradburry writes his characters. He wrote this book in the 1950's and didn't know what would happen this far into the future. However, he did a pretty dang well job.
Holly
First of all, this story was a metaphor representing the corruption and downfall of society. Furthermore, I'm unclear as to what the "question" part of your small rant was.
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