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Summary: Confusing
Review: who ever wrote this dumb confusing book is in a mental state of mind! Fahrenheit 451 is a overworded description of a fireman who lives on rebellion! It is a bad influence on the young people of the world. THIS BOOK SHOULD BE BURNED!
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Summary: Makes you think
Review: This book by Ray Bradbury was defintely an interesting book! i encourage that all students read it! This book made my imagination soar! With all the situtations that occured in this novel, it's so strange how it's all coming true! It made me wonder if the future will be like that with the 4-wall television and the mechanical hound! also with the suicide rate as high as it is in the book! At points this story was scary! Also it was definely a cliff hanger! i couldn't put it down, i ended up so far ahead of my class that i had to stop reading so i could relate to what was going on in class!This was one of the better books that i have read in the past! especially being assigned for class i was extremely surprised that i liked it as much as i did! so i encourage that the future english classes of the sophomore year read this novel because it makes you think, learn what the true meaning of life is, and also improves your vocabulary and your reading skills!
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Summary: Fahrenheit451 by Ray Bradbury
Review: If you like to read about the future, this is a great book to read! Fahrenheit451 is a great book on what are future could be like. Do you think that you could ever survive with out books? This society dose. What's a fireman to you? You might just be surprised in this book! This book was interesting because you would never guessed the ending or certain thing that happened! I hope you enjoy this book. I enjoyed very much!
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Summary: This bock is far out!
Review: Read this book.The plot is amazing. If you are into real indepth thoughts and plots then you will like this book. Oh and hi Miss Hill!
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Summary: How prophetic a very good science fiction writer can be
Review: I read this book about 18 months ago, but I am writing a review now because the book came up during a mealtime conversation. We talked about how prophetic a very good science fiction writer can be. This is definitely the case in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag lives in a world that represses freedom of speech, creativity, and the core of human spirit. People, including his estranged wife, are drones glued to these pseudo realities in television. It describes senseless trivia shows (can anyone say "Who wants to be a millionaire?") and awfully realistic soap operas that his wife affectionatly refers to as the "family." What is most disturbing is that as televisions and technology become more "artificially intelligent" we will face some of the brainless drivel (we already do) that the major media networks provide us. As a fireman, Guy Montag starts fires with books as the culprit - rather than putting them out. The idea is that books can make some people feel bad and as a result we should get rid of them - in other words books can be controversial and our country does not need disputes. The enforcer is a mechanical dog (which I found a little unrealistic and distracting) that injects a lethal poison into any opponents. Despite the silliness of the mechanical dog - the underlying theme is fantastic - open your mind and save the beauty of spontaneity and creativity of the human spirit.
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Summary: hard to understand
Review: This book was to discriptive in some of the sceens and others had barly anything. The author never said anywhere what the time/date it was. It was really hard to understand. Sometimes I know what was going on, it din't stay in one place very long to catch up.
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Summary: This is the future - Make sure it doesn't happen here
Review: 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. If you have not read this book, now a cult classic, you wouldn't know that fact. Nor would you know that in Ray Bradbury's world of the future people don't say anything because they don't know anything. And they don't know anything because they don't have books. At first books were leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm by cuts that made them shorter, producing condensations and digests. Classics were cut to fill a two-column single page, winding up at last as a ten-line summary. Then books were outlawed. Discipline relaxes. History becomes neglected. English is dropped. Life becomes immediate. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? The amazing thing is that Bradbury predicted that censorship would start with the minorities objecting to the way they were depicted. Blacks, Baptists, Dog Lovers etc. waanted strict enforcement of anti-book laws and the burning of all books followed. Someone has written a book on tobacco and lung cancer? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. The smokers are distressed? Burn the book. A book, any book creates problems. You don't have to face those problems. Just burn the book. The point is obvious. The world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority feels it has the will, the right, the duty, to douse the kerosene, like Montag, the protagonist of this novel, and light the fuse. But you know there are more ways than burning to destroy a book. Every dimwit editor could slenderize, starve, bluepencil, leech, and bleed white any book and make any author sound like Edgar Guest. Frightening in its implications, 451, this insane world, which bears many alarming reseemblances to our own, is required reading for all lovers of books. Incidentally, the proof that Bradbury's esthetic vision was not far off the mark was that he discovered, years after 451 was published, that cubby-hole editors at Ballantine, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Alert students reading those editions told the author about this exquisite irony. The original story is now available thanks to Judy Lynn Del Rey.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Story of Guy Montag, a "fireman" in a repressive society, who repents his job of burning books and joins an underground society committed to memorizing the great works of literature. Bradbury's excessively florid, overwrought prose bothered me greatly. The futuristic society of book-burners never really seemed fully realized or plausible. Dealt with some questions of book burning and censorship intelligently, but still seemed a bit naïve. Bradbury struggles with long-form fiction. Never felt the execution rose to the level of thematic ambition.
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Summary: The Fireman
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is about a fireman named Guy Montag. He lives in a day and age of very high technology. Instead of having televisions they have 'parlors'. Which are rooms where pictures are displayed on the walls and it is very interactive. Guy's job as a fireman is not an ordinary fireman's job. In this future time houses have been made fire proof. Therefore there is no need for firemen who go put out fires. However the government has banned all books from the United States. They figure any book can cause disagreement by someone. Even the smallest minority could find a book that they think is prejudice towards them. Hence, Guy's job as a fireman is to burn any and all books that are found. However, a young girl moves in next door to Guy. She stimulates his interest in books. At first she just tries to get him to slow down in a world that is constantly speeding up. She tells him to stop and smell the flowers. This girl is found dead, but she left an impression on Guy Montag. Guy collects books from the ones they go and burn. He begins to hate is job as a fireman. He finds a man that also likes books and has been planning to destroy what the fireman do. Then, Guy Montage is reported to have books in his house. While on the job the fireman receive a call to go and burn some books. Guy is startled when they pull up in front of his house. The head fireman gives a blow torch to Guy and has him do it himself. Guy burns his entire house down, but by now he has almost gone insane. He ends up killing the head fireman and running. The authorities chase him for hours. Guy is able to escape down the river. He finds a group of people who all have ran away because they love books. Soon after he leaves the city the next world war starts. Guy's city is one of the first to get flattened by bombs. The people in the city had no warning. They were told it would never come so close. Guy Montag and the head fireman, Beatty, where actually very much alike. In the beginning they both went out and burned books with no second thoughts. However, Guy soon begins to think about what he is doing. This is when we find out that Beatty also once read books. Beatty found burning the books as an escape to loving them. When Beatty is about to be killed by Guy, Beatty does no try to move or jump away. He seems to just stay in place like he is ready to die. He has burnt enough books and he is ready for it to end. Death is his new escape. In this novel, Ray Bradbury shows us the importance of books and what could happen if we forget about books and what they teach us about ourselves.
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Summary: An OK book
Review: Sure, this book gives some harsh warnings about the desensitization of our culture and the withering away of intellectual importance, but its radical premise detracts from the story's legitimacy and worth. Bradbury anticipates a complete elimination of all books and literature, and I do agree that we are moving in a more automated, fast-paced society with less emphasis on love and personal relationships. But we will never reach such an extreme level, its simply a rediculous concept. I contest that we cannot worry about whether others are getting their daily dose of Shakespeare, Joyce or the Bible, and if we choose to read on our own, we will always have the chance to do so. I imagine that if you are reading this review, you don't run a high risk of losing interest in books in your lifetime. Yes, Bradbury does offer a striking prophesy of the direction of societal development, but to use this book as the basis for an outrcy against our culture's future is ludicrous.
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