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Summary: Fascinating, Yet Somewhat Confusing
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is a book about firemen burning books. The story is quite fascinating but the way Bradbury works it along is a little confusing. The storyline- Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books and is very proud of his job, that is until one day he meets a girl named Clarrisse and an old man. The story is basically what he decides to do in order to find out why books were banned and what is inside a book that leads people to love them or hate them. The confusing part of this book is that it leaves you thinking "Ok, What just happened?". I recall that more than once I had to re-read a page 4 times and still couldn't figure out what happened. I'm guessing that the reason this book is so confusing is that it takes place in the future yet sometimes it seems so old (probably because it was written awhile ago). You sit there thinking "Is this the real world (in the novel) or are they discussing the past, or are they discussing the future?". If you happen to watch the movie of Fahrenheit 451, watch it after you read the book, or better yet, don't watch it at all. The movie is different in many, many ways, including names and plot.
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Summary: Excellent Commentary on Censorship and Political Correctness
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic parable that warns of the bleakness of a society in which political correctness has gone awry. The firemen in the story burn books (and the houses in which they are found) in an effort to save mankind from being offended by their contents. There are a couple of gripping passages in the middle of the story, amidst intense action sequences, in which the firemen's philosophy is expounded, and a history is given to explain the madness. In the words of the fire marshal (Beatty), "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book." And so on.The main character (and fireman) Montag evolves from someone who merely observes with a curious detachment the odd book-loving maverick around him, to an active participant in a quest to salvage what little is left by way of the written word. He is inspired by a little girl and an old man, both unconventional thinkers, and along the way, Montag's disdain grows for his conformist wife. [Curiously, and most prophetically, Montag's wife's love of interactive television (or its futuristic analog) ends up stripping her of any individuality or character, and causes Montag to tire of her more quickly.] A great read, all in all, with credible characters, creative and thought-provoking settings and devices (including a mechanical "hound" working for the fire department that tracks prey according to its hormonal makeup (or "odor index"), and dispatches it with a poison syringe), and a caustic tone that spares no one (the media, the government, religion, etc.). The story is totally conceivable, too (even today, despite its completion in 1953), which serves to scare the reader more than the most fantastic piece of fiction ever could. My edition had a riveting Afterward by Bradbury as well, circa 1979, in which the author inveighed against censorship and those who see fit to censor. In the author's own words, "There is more than one way to burn a book."
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Summary: Twilight zone material
Review: I always like to read a classic every once in a while, whether it be a mystery, literature, or good old science fiction. It seems that many of the classic science fiction novels deal more with man's attitude toward his surroundings rather than the stories of aliens and the future world gone crazy thru technology. This book takes the simple premise of a world where books are illegal and turns it into a Twilight Zone episode. The best part of a novel such as this is that the reader is forced to contemplate a scenario which is actually imaginable and decide how he or she would act and react. An interesting story to say the least.....
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Summary: Better than expected
Review: I thought this book was pretty good but not the best book I have ever read. Some parts were really good and I couldn't put it down but there were to many parts that were really boring. This book was about a society that couldn't have books because they made to many people unhappy and it was said they were full of garbage. Firefighters started fires to get rid of books instead of getting fires out. This book was confusing at parts but it wasn't to bad. I wouldn't recommend this to people have a hard time reading confusing books because you won't be able to finish. All around this was a pretty good book and it is worth it to read.
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Summary: This is a review for this book
Review: IN this story, moralist Ray Bradbury tells us about a country in which books are illegal to read or posses, and firemen aren't employed to save houses, but to burn books. Guy Montag a fireman, and the story's protagonist, enjoys coming home every night form the firehouse waiting for a call, playing poker and telling crude jokes to his companions (who all looked exactly like him). He also enjoys the destruction and burning of the books and he is constantly bathed in a perfume of kerosene. Coming home form work he would often feel as if someone had been on this one particular corner, waiting for him, but he never stopped and looked around. He was like all the other folks, in that he would just keep going ahead to where he was going, not looking at what he was walking past. Except one night he stopped and met a girl who taught him of the past where folks were allowed to think and to read and to have original ideas for themselves, and the ability to write them down and share them with others. As the story progresses we go deeper into the world of Guy Montag, meeting his drug-abusing wife and her "family" on the telescreens. We discover the ways that the society works, about how people are impersonal, not knowing their own neighbors, and how the television thinks for everyone so that they don't have to. This book parallels other books depicting futures where it is near impossible to be a free-thinking individual, such as 1984 and brave new world. Also it resembles present day America, even more so now then when it was originally written. Ray Bradbury's easy to read, yet descriptive text makes the story easy to read and hard to put down. The plot thickens, twists and sickens with every page. It is a warning that everyone, especially now in a world that grows more and more like Mr. Montag's, should heed to.
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Summary: An eye opener!
Review: Fahrenheit 451 absolutely cathes the reader's attention of the importance of books. In this story the government has become so corrupt that it has banned the ownership of any sort of literature. It is not until the day when protagonist Montag realizes, while talking to a young girl, how unhappy and naive he actually was. Bradbury takes the idea of a Utopia society and turns it completely upside downThis book shows the damaging effects on the censorships of books and stresses the importance of literature. This is a highly recommmended book to those seeking to open their eyes and realize the truth of how society can be. However, the story moves at a slow pace and many undifined things are exposed in the begining. Other than that, this is an exceptioally good book with an even better moral.
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Summary: Ali's Review
Review: Fahrenheight 451 is a book set in the future that every page goes on and on and you find that you are still on that same page because you have fallen asleep. This story has some characters that are very different from each other. The main character Montag, who is a fireman who burns books instead of stopping fires, is very different from his wife Millie. His wife just watches TV all day and they call the actors their "cousins". Also their are so many different things that happen that you can't really keep up with them and you can't really understand it because you can;t understand what the characters do. The plot does not really make sense, it is about people who burn books and let me tell you it isn't very fun to read. I think that the the book is creative, but the Author should use something else to go with this story. The vocabulary was pretty good and he used good sentence, but they got confusing and you find yourself doing nothing with this book. The book just goes on and on and then you find yourself wanting to burn it like the fire fighters do. I would say that I recommend this book to probably no one because it isn't fun to read, you fall asleep during it and you can never feel suspended. People who like Sci-Fi stuff might, but it isn't really Sci-Fi ether.
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Summary: a confusing read
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is an interesting book to read because it is set in an alternate reality that broke off just after Ray Bradbury wrote the book [This comment might be hard to understand if you don't know a bit about alternate realities and other alternates] The book is set in a alternate future that the government doesn't like books because every book makes someone feel bad. Firefighters in this alternate future created by Ray Bradbury start fires using books to feed the flame that they cherish. The reasons that books were turned to ashes were that people didn't like some books because they were opposing their beliefs and religions. Also books were also most likely burned because some of them gave revolutionary ideas. Fahrenheit 451 is a little hard to read because Ray Bradbury replaces some words with others. The replaced words make it hard to read quickly sort of like reading American writing with Japanese characters names inserted in instead of the American names. This book is best read by people who like reading quickly and can read Japanese fan fics for anime with the Japanese names instead of the American names. The words are not very advanced for vocab so that part of the book is really easy to read. For me this book was easy to read so I think that you should be at least 11 before you read this book because of the style of writing.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book that is a very different type of book, and at sometimes confusing. No matter when you read it in you are able to imagine the future. The plot was complex and was suspenseful. And the characters in the book were not the same as some of the other characters you may have read about in other books. Montag the main character in the story was a fireman and his job was to make fire and burn books and not put fires out. Most of the people in the book seemed the same and rather dull, but there was one character that was different from all of the rest. Clarisse was a seventeen year old girl who was not as dull and flat as some of the other characters that you would read about. She would always be thinking about things others thought were foolish and strange. And when Montag meets her he begins to change. Books in this story was a danger to their society and mad people "unhappy" as the government would say. The style of the book was confusing and difficult, and it was also easy at other times. Parts of the vocabulary was difficult but it helped the story. The sentences described a lot and helped to create images of the near future. I would recommend this book to all science fiction lovers and also people who like to use their imaginations. This is because when you read the story it is very scientific and hard. If you don't like to read these types of books I would not recommend reading it.
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Summary: Fahrenhiet 451
Review: Fahrenheit 451, a science fiction book written by Ray Bradbury, is a good read. In the book, Guy Montag, a fireman, is paid to burn books. In fact, all fireman are paid to burn books. This book, being a science fiction, takes place in the future. Guy enjoys his job. He gets paid well and understands the system, books are for burning. He is under the impression that books are full of nothing but garbage. He meets a girl named Clarisse who changes his views completely. He starts to become more interested in books. He hides books in his house. He suddenly realizes what he has been doing. This book is a somewhat difficult read. It may not be enjoyed by children under sixth grade. The sentences are somewhat long and complex. At times, the vocabulary is also difficult. I would rate this book fair. I would only recommend it to people who are heavily interested in science fiction.
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