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Summary: What a great read!!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK. When I read it first in 6th grade.... I loved it. And now after reading it in 9th, almost 3 years later, not much has changed. From the very CONCEPT of the book, to the actual plot and characters, there was nothing I DIDN'T like. It's one of those books you can get absorbed in, and one you'll definately wish would never end.
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Summary: A bit dated, but still compelling
Review: I just read "Farenheit 451" for the first time recently, and found many of the observations about censorship quite relevant. However, as a science fiction story, what may have been riveting in the early 1950s seems a bit tame by today's standards. Particularly interesting is Bradbury's vision of the evolution of television, which of course was still in its infancy at the time he wrote the story. The idea of a room in which the visual image surrounds you on all sides sounds a projection screen TV owner's fantasy. Bradbury's vision of a totalitarian society is as scary as anything out of "1984," but ultimately Bradley was mistaken in believing that television could pacify the masses for totalitarianism. In fact, instant communications has made a totalitarian government, which relies on total control of information, less likely. The book is brief, checking in at a quickly read 160 pages. And this edition features a couple of scenes Bradbury wrote later on that were not featured in the original novel.
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Summary: Bradbury's Look At Censorship
Review: Guy Montag is an ordinary fireman, if you consider a book burning, flame-thrower wielding zealot to be just that. Ray Bradbury(author of The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes)tells the story of a society so frightened by its own intellectual and creative potential that "book learning" becomes a criminal offense. Montag, along with his equally ambitious coworkers, burns the home of any man or woman unfortunate enough to be hiding printed literature. But when one woman refuses to leave her home and then stoicly burns beside her collection of books, Montag dares to wonder if all books are so dangerous as the government has trained him to believe. Of course, I can't forget to mention Clarisse, a young woman who seems interested in helping Montag decide for himself whether or not his line of work is justified or foolishly cruel. Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship and the lengths that a future government might go to to restrict the public's ability to access past knowledge. Orwell's 1984 was a slightly better example of this kind of story, but that doesn't take away from the satisfaction of Mr. Bradbury's finely written classic. The book's pace becomes incredibly exciting as Montag learns of his mistakes and decides to go against the common will. The fugitive chase and scholarly transients who keep passages of important texts in their memories(the Bible seems a popular choice of Bradbury)is a near perfect final touch. Go ahead, read this book. It has a lot to say about an important and complex subject and easily keeps your attention throughout.
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Summary: An Amazing Book
Review: Well while waiting for a late friend I happened to be wanderingaround a bookstore when this book caught my eye. I had heard about itsomewhere but I wasn't really sure what it was about. I picked it up and read a few pages, walked to the cashier and bought it. Not just because it addressed important issues of censorship, but because it made me really CARE about censorship and how important the issue was.
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Summary: A well written book more relevant today than ever!
Review: Read this book! This, sadly prophetic, book truly reflects modern day life. Amazingly, people don't read anymore, BY CHOICE! Were offended by any and all things serious. Life has become nothing but trivial, meaningless, stupid, "fun." The movies, television, pastimes, everything, is completely empty and devoid of all substance, if it actually has a point, then it's called "overly serious." After all, we just want to "have fun;" why waste our lives trying to fix problems? Forget the problems! Life's too short! Eat, drink, tomorrow we may die! Ozone depletion, global warming? Bah! Human beings like you and I starving to death? I don't see it! Poverty, pollution, living beyond our means, injustice, racism, classism, sexism, hatred of all differences, greed, and countless other serious problems? Who cares, I don't see 'em! Flick on the TV!... and all these other anoexic, empty-headed, cuties we all aspire to be, who have nothing to offer us but "cute-ness," and, of course, the planned obsolesence of the latest clothing fads, etc! How have we gone this far over the edge? Why don't we read? Why don't we care? Why don't we think? Why do we allow this to go on? Ray Bradbury tackles all these questions and more in his book. While this isn't a difficult book to read, it is slow reading, because, to get the point, you must continually stop reading and think about what you've read, to ask the important questions: Is it better to know, or not to know? Is it better to read, or not to read? Why do I read? Why do I think? How do I separate two conflicting truths, which are equally true? Join Montag, Clarisse, Faber, Beatty, Stoneman and Black, Mildrid, Granger, and the other characters of Fahrenheit 451 to help you find these answers. What a great book!
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Summary: la temperatura a la que los libros arden.
Review: esta novela de corte futurista, nos muestra un futuro dominado por la cultura de la mass media controlada por un gobierno central que prohibe e inhibe lo mejor de cada ser humano, el derecho de discernir, de pensar, de estar en desacuerdo, de estar tristes al compas de una novela, a quedarnos boquiabiertos con un tratado de filosofia.en la sociedad que describe Bradbury, los bomberos se dedican a apagar la sed de curiosidad de los seres inquisitivos, se dedican a quemar libros para que la gente no pueda tener acceso a la informacion y que jamas salgan de su pobreza mental y de su atraso, pues quien controla la informacion, controla al pueblo. es una obra excelente de lo que tal vez podria ser en un futuro no muy distante. LUIS MENDEZ luismendez@codetel.net.do
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Summary: a book that makes you think
Review: highly recommended reading by Bradbury fans as well as those not familiar with his work
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Summary: The Firemen of Tomorrow
Review: The Firemen of tomorrow do not put out fires anymore..... they START them. This story about a fireman doubting his job is absolutely riveting. Guy Montag thought he was happy. Then a girl named Clarisse came onto the scene. Her sudden disappearance and/or death leads to his unsettlement. When his wife, Mildred turns him in, he must burn his own house. He finds hope with a group of shabby old professors. Ray Bradbury must have been psychic to write a book that hits this close to home. Who knows, Fahrenheit 451 may be the future. This book is a MUST for children to read in the classroom.
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Summary: Hurrah for Bradbury!
Review: Art imitating life? One need only contemplate the depths of political correctness to see the coming new order. Utopian societies are hellish and brutally banal at the same time. Like Jerry Furland's terrifying novel "Transfer - the end of the beginning", Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" delivers a message and a vision of the future that is bleakly horrifying. You will devour both of these fine novels in a sitting. Guaranteed.
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Summary: A very disappointing book
Review: I thought this was one of the worst books I've ever read. The characters were entirely unconvincing - e.g. the professor with the strange name who can only express himself using metaphors. The plot is just a predictable and flimsy excuse for a parable about the dangers of modern society. I read it, because I'd bought it, but I found almost every word an insult to my intelligence.
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