Joseph answers “Did anyone else think this book was...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Fahrenheit 451:

Did anyone else think this book was INCREDIBLY weird? It's not bad, but it's too strange to be a book I like.

Joseph Yes. I didn't enjoy reading it really, but I do recognise that the writing style perhaps intentionally creates this atmosphere in me, the reader. I pa…moreYes. I didn't enjoy reading it really, but I do recognise that the writing style perhaps intentionally creates this atmosphere in me, the reader. I particularly was disappointed in the lack of realness of the surrounding world and didn't feel like there was much evidence of a believable reality in there. In hindsight I see that this is all part of the atmosphere of a world where human contact is minimal against a background of a permanantly dark, sparsely populated, barren urban landscape, but it didn't draw me in to the story and made it feel flat and two dimensional to me.(less)

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