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Summary: Refreshing optimism in a pessimistic world
Review: I enjoyed the book through-and through. I haven't read since high school and found the second time refreshing. Montag, the questionable fireman, discovers truth in the cave of reality while wife, Mildred, stares at walls of fiction. Beatty, the fireman, villified a brainless modern world with hopeless, while Clarisse fantasized about the future of tommorrow. Each character's desperate nature compelled me to read further. One taught who shouldn't, one inspired who knew better, one conspired who should have loved, one deceived who kinked the hose of knowedge, and one questioned everything who never did before.Bradbury's novel is one many can relate to in the modern world. His dystopian is filled with brillant biblical and philosophical allusions. His words are more poetry than prose. Like many of his novels he questions the heart and mind of the future in a world of new conveniences and conflicts. Bradbury's flaws are few. But like many books in the bible, with prophetic damnation there is also a promise. There is a glimpse of a new hope, but there is no second to this lonely motion. I would like him to push the plot onward. The baptism of Montag is just the end of an old life, but it's also the beginning of a new one. As I read Ray Bradbury's art work, I see a need for free thinkers, individuals who challenge daily. Many of the writers decorated in the text show this will to propell the individual past the barriers of social appropriateness. This is something I have always admired about his writing and will continue to.
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Summary: My Review
Review: In this book, the author shows what can happen when books are taken away, it is based in a time when origial thought is frowned upon and even at times dispised. It shows what could very easily happen whith the way extra reading is frowned upon and those who do it are considerd "nerds". Ray Bradbury discribes a time of horror where anything but fact is thought to be evil. Read this book I promise that you will like it.
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Summary: Not afraid to think
Review: Bradbruy creates a world of censorship and what is supposed to be simplistic and fun. The main character, Guy Montag has the profession of a fireman, and rather then put out fires, he begins them. His job is to destroy books, but he soon realizes that there is more to the world than what is told to him. With the help of some very interesting supporting characters Montag's life is drastically changed. This is a really quick read under 200 pages. It was definantly thought provoking and the whole message fits in any time period.
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Summary: Scary how realistic-makes you ponder
Review: Amazon.com recommended Fahrenheit 451 to my list a long time ago and I just now got around to reading it, somewhat skeptical at first because the description on the back of the book seemed, at best, cheesy. The publisher might want to rethink the blurb. But, I read it anyway, and am thoroughly impressed not only with the style of writing, but also with the complexity of the situation presented. In a novel where books are banned because they cause too much 'free thinking' and 'confusion' for those who fail to understand them or don't want to read them, there are a lot of fairly frightening similarities to the way society is progressing today. Granted, I don't believe we will ever burn all the books of the world, but it is a cruel reminder how many people are ignorant to the importance of books, whether fiction or non-fiction. It also reminded me how much I enjoy cracking open a new book with its characteristic smell and feel, and how much I, as a reader, would miss that privilege.
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Summary: Good - not as good as 1984
Review: An interesting book that everyone should read. If you're looking for the BEST negative utopia book, however, you need to read George Orwell's 1984.
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Summary: Try it out, and see if you like it
Review: I picked up this book off my dad's shelf, because he recommended it to me. However, I didn't enjoy it as much as he did. Fahrenheit 451 is your typical dys-utopian book. But, it lacks a sense of style. Although the novel, like most others of the nature, has an eerie aura to it, it was basically boring. Ray Bradbury failed to get me hooked on to anything in the novel, and it wasn't the type of novel that made me want to keep reading more. The plot does not come as a surprise and the conclusion is left shady, leaving the reader to do what he/she wants with it. I suggest not to read it, but since this book has so many mixed reviews, you might as well see what all the hype is about. My recommendation: since this is a quick read, with only 179 pages, check it out for yourselves.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Ok so some of the stuff in this book seems like dated, mid-twentieth century Science Fiction predictions of a future we now know will probably never occur. But the themes in this book are timeless and the hero is just like you and me. Hopefully. If we a more people like the fireman in this book then perhaps half the holocausts of history would never have happened. then again during those same holocausts there were men and women like the fireman and they helped defeat the tyrants in power or save millions of lives by making the right decision (moral decision) over mindlessly following the status-quo. Bradbury's descriptions of fire are lovely. They are like flowers, like petals, like demons and like angels.
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Summary: Respectable Novel
Review: I read this book because i enjoyed the futuristic ideas in Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles." This novel was a good thoughtful book but a little too slow-paced. Fahrenheit 451 makes you really think about whether our government is controlling us or not.
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Summary: possibly the best book of all time!
Review: I love this book! It is beautiful and fast-paced from beginning to end. Not only is this book entertaining, but it is also a thought-provoking social statement. Before I read it, I thought this book would be sort of boring, since I am not Science Fiction's Greatest Fan. However, this book crosses all the boundaries of fiction, appealing to all people who enjoy authors with a vividly descriptive style. I strongly reccommend this book to anyone with a voracious appetite for reading!
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Summary: A book that you need to read at least twice to understand
Review: When I first read this book, I was so incredibly lost. It was the first Bradbury book I'd ever read, and I guess I just wasn't used to his style. There were so many times I would have to reread 5 or 6 pages 3 or 4 times because I was so confused about what was going on. The characters were strange, and I couldn't ever tell what side they were on;it was really unpredictable. It's one of those books where you need to sit down and read it in a quiet atmosphere and focus on Bradbury's symbolism all throughout the book. If you miss the symbolism, you won't get much out of the book. I think it's hard for people under 13 to really understand some of the symbolism that's in the book, so there's really no purpose in them reading the book, since they won't understand it.
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