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Summary: Expectations
Review: Not being a passionate Science Fiction reader, I did not enjoy Bradbury's writing ideas and form. I found this book to be a very slow read, not moving very fast. Some of Bradbury's ideas did not seem to fit into the story. I found this story to be too far into the future to relate to. I found the action of burning books to be very unreal in any society. I have read some other stories from Bradbury and part of one of his other books, Dandelion Wine, and Fahrenheit 451 did not match up to some of Bradbury's other works.
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Summary: It's Mediocre.
Review: The book Fahrenheit 451 is a mediocre quality book. It is rather easy to read (7th grade level) and is also easy to follow. The writing style is different because the culture is very different from anywhere today. The plot is also different due to books are banned in this world. This book is recommended to people who dislike books because this book shows the world without them, so those people may reconsider their opinions.
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Summary: A little Confusing
Review: Being in 7th grade I found this story to be a little confusing. The story took place in the future, when firemen start fires and not put them out. The plot involves a fireman named Montag who begins to question the way of society. At some points the plot got very confusing because the book would jump from scene to scene and from concept to concept. Ray Bradbury used many advanced words and metaphors and these contributed to the story getting confusing. Overall I enjoyed the book, and I would recommend this book to anyone after 8th grade because of confusion in the plot.
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Summary: NOT THAT GOOD
Review: Fahrenheit 451 was a disappointing book for a reader who is not an avid science fiction lover. This book is very difficult to read. The correctors a sometimes very confusing to understand. The setting is also very hard to have a visual picture. Although the plot is very good the way that it is described is hard to understand. I think if you are a science fiction lover that you would like this book. But if you sometimes like to read science fiction you will not like this because you have to be a huge science fiction lover to like this. I also think you need to be above the 6th grade or a very advanced reader.
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Summary: My Review
Review: This book was very interesting, but I wouldn't consider it a Sci-Fi. It takes place in the future, and firemen don't put out fires, they start them. Its about a fireman named Montag who starts to question the law that says you are not aloud to have books, and his adventure after. It was a difficult book to read, but there were some good vocabulary terms. It was also very descriptive. On a scale one to ten I would give it a six. It was a very creative story, but I am not a fan of many futuristic books. Kids under the sixth grade should not read this because they may get confused or not understand some of the words in the book.
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Summary: I want more
Review: I just finished Fahrenheit 451 and feel like I did when someone gave me a shareware version of a video game. I learned the moves, became someone addicted, cleared the third level and found that I needed a code to get the rest of the game. Only Ray didn't give away the code to 451!This is clearly a fantastic story, horribly well written. I have wish listed several more of his books for future reading. Unfortunately 451 is long enough that you suspend some of the caveats used when reading short stories. With a book this long, I want developed characters to be resolved. Several characters just go away, which left me lacking at the end. Sometimes this is intended, and strong. In this case, it seemed thoughtless and abrubt. Don't miss the afterword and coda at the end. Very nice additions.
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Summary: A compelling, enigmatic twist of images and implications
Review: I read this book in two days, and was focused throughout, inhaling Bradburys words and letting the book have its effect on my mind. What the book is missing in a THICK plot it gains in its writing style. Bradbury is simply a literary genius, and post-modern Marxist environments are his playground. The way that Bradbury depicts the forest which Montag enters after leaving the river is extremely surreal, if not surrealism in its nature. What I mean by "What the book is missing in a THICK plot," is that Bradbury could have developed the story in a more progressive fashion, rather than leaving out some important aspects of Montag's world. The overall politics of the time in which this is supposed to take place are not even present in the novel. The way in which the society went from not being interested in books, to burning them also seems to be under-expressed. Criticizing an artist is something that I have a hard time doing, for when a writer writes, he writes, and that is all. Bradbury wrote, and this book is him, with its perceived flaws and all, I think that it is a masterpiece in a poetic sense, not in the sense that it has become a staple of highschool literature. I will put it this way, if you like the colorful environments of Allen Ginsbergs poetry, then you will surely enjoy at least the aesthetic qualities of Fahrenheit 451.
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Summary: "Speculative Fiction" at it's very best!
Review: Ray Bradbury once called himself a writer of "speculative fiction." He most certainly based that statement on this very book. Bradbury's view of the future from 1953 is proving its merit now that it is beginning to come true. Similar to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, Bradbury's novel tells of a world in which the government has entrapped society in a web of propaganda. Bradbury's novel differentiates itself from the other two, however, in that it focuses on this oppressive government's censorship of literature and the "firemen," who burn these illegal books. Fahrenheit 451 also is far more entertaining to read, as it is in pure Bradbury style, with vivid, colorful writing, and Bradbury's standard metaphors at every turn of the page. A great read for any Bradbury fan, a science fiction reader, or anyone who wants to see society with a whole new perspective. in sum, this book proves that Ray Bradbury has got the future's number. That number is, of course, Fahrenheit 451.
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Summary: I had high hopes
Review: First off, I have to say that the idea isn't that far fetched. It's hard to imagine that someone in 1953 could depict our life so close to what it is like today. Television seems to run our lives and less people settle themselves in books. I say this because I'm one of them, although I do enjoy a good sci-fi novel (ie. 1984, Dune, Brave New World). That said, I have to conclude that Bradbury did in fact write a flop! It is true what they say about how you can't buy a book by it's cover. I, just as many others, was encouraged to read from the title. The concept is excellent and to a point, realistic. What seems "wrong" with the book however is the lack of depth the other characters have. Clarise, the girl who turned Guy Montag's head in the other direction, who had great potential, dies in the begining of the book. Her death seems meaningless as a result of lack of depth... Mildred, Guy's wife, who turns in her own husband, also lacks depth. The second reason which makes this book a flop is the lack of a conclusion. Not to spoil the ending of these great literary pieces, but the main characters in 1984, Brave New World, and Dune either die, are defeated, or emerge victorious (not in that order). But in F451, Guy ends up roaming the lands with a bunch of Harvard and Yale hobos. The government, Big Brother, or whatever you want to call it, which was so obviously against him, couldn't care less if he existed. And Guy's cause failed to alter anything, other than relocating him to the woods. There seemed to be no major conflict. Sure, people will argue that the chase was a conflict, but it was not solved. Now, if this book was part of a trilogy, then maybe there is some reason to leaving the question unanswered to what was the purpose of Guy's puiny uproar. But the fact is that the book is cut short. It deserved a better ending or even a better beginning. Whatever the case I felt thirsty for more at the end of the book, I had many questions unanswered, like what really happened to Clarisse, was she killed by a racing car or was she hiding from the government too? Does Faber get in touch with those printing guys or is he caught by Big Brother? There needn't be a happy ending, but to deprive the audience of an ending of any type spells out B A D S T Y L E.
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Summary: "frightening in its implications"
Review: It truly is. Ray Bradbury's masturfully told story of censorship in the future show us what we may become: A civilization of mindless people who are so bent on being PC and "happy" that they end up burning all books. While that is a rough description, I don't wish to give too much away. Bradbury's characters all act realistically (something im a stickler for) and I love the way he writes, using metaphors constantly he achieves an amazing level of description while still leaving some things for the reader to figure out. People have told me that the beginning is confusing; while I don't feel that is true, if you do kepp reading because the last 100 pages (out of only around 200) will rivet your eyes to the pages. Personally, I love Ray Bradbury and feel that this is his greatest work, or one of them. But you don't have to like Bradbury to like this novel; if you want a great book that will truly make you think, and just a great read, by all means pick this one up. Highly Recommended.
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