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Fahrenheit 451 CD

Fahrenheit 451 CD

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: excellent and memorable
Review: I remember reading this book in sixth or seventh grade. This book was interesting enough to make me read it in one or two sessions. I still remember the book and how I felt about it as a child reading it. I vaguely remember my teacher at the time saying in certain places they have outlawed this book but have never thought of it until it was in a daily program on disney recently. I have never really watched this program as it is primarily a childrens show but the advertisement caught my eye as I was flipping channels. It was showing a teacher getting arrested along with his students for merely reading this book. This is when I remembered my teacher saying something about its legality in some states. Is this Union such that we have to hide to read such works of art? I think this action is exactly what Bradbery was trying to prevent in society. He may have been trying to show people what the world would become if we tryed to enforce a sort of literature policy. Where would we be if Shakespeare's works had been baned? I believe this was an excellent book and every child should have the freedom to enjoy it. I hope that when my son is that age he will have the same freedom that I enjoyed in school.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the most important works of fiction this century
Review: This is an amazing novel, from start to finish. I could hardly put it dwon, and the message alone that it sent across is frightening in it's implications. This book told us how much we should value life and learning. Every person, man, woman, or child should read this amazing, and almost horryifing book about the future. For within its pages lies the answer to how and why the events in this story and probably in the future did and will take place.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Vibrant, but somewhat confusing............
Review: A good book with a gripping plot and dynamic descriptions, but confusing in the begining. When I began to read the book, I had no clue what was going on. It took me a couple of days to read this book since it was so (as I mentioned before) gripping.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very good book worth reading
Review: This book although one of the worst distopian books was good in that it was for a childs view. Some of the characters showed extreme likeness to modern society and the theme was very well developed. many very good literature components in this work.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good book, but easy to put down!
Review: I had to read this book for my 8th grade reading class. I'm not much of a reader, in fact I don't read at all unless I have to. I thought this was a good book, but could have been better without all the elaboration. Every little thing that he talked about whether it was the firehouse or the match he described it to the nth degree. Overall I thought it was a fairly good book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Just a couple little notes...
Review: First, I wonder about the credibility of the publisher's notes when she couldn't spell the title of the book correctly. (I realize it's not exactly an easy word, but still!)

Second, a small point: Clarisse McClellan never reached the age of 17. (One of the editors wrote about the 17-year-old girl.)

The book is a worthwhile read. I'm not big on science fiction, but Fahrenheit 451 sends a strong political message about censorship and forecasts (forecasted) the future eerily well. It's very scary in its predictions.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The more I think about it, the more I like it
Review: I had to read this book for summer reading, and I didn't really like it. But once I finished it, I thought about it, and I realized how much I liked it. This book is so futuristic, yet so easy to understand. Things like Beatty's monolouges, the mechanical dogs, and Clarrise all made this book one great read.

If you can read, read this. It'll give you one lasting impression....and you'll be grateful for books that much more.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WOOOWWW! I'm impressed with this book!
Review: This book was your average school assigned novel. NOOOOTTTTT! It was jam-packed with humor, drama, horror, and action. Guy Montag, the protagonist, turns upon his profession as a fireman. Firemen in the future burn books and the houses that contain them. IF YOU DON'T READ THIS BOOK, I'M GOING TO GET YOU! HA HA HA HAAA!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Strange and disturbing
Review: A cynical, yet prophetic view of the world as it is today. The upside-down trick (making fire instead of extinguishing it) has been used to great effect before ('freedom is slavery') and perhaps better. Still, this book is worth the read, if only for the moral warning to society it contains.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: An interesting novel
Review: The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was a good yet weird book. The author tells of a story of a man who finds that what he once thought to be true and right was wrong. The story then takes you through some strange events while you meet different characters. Although the book was sometimes random, it was a fun and exciting book. The book was good, it really seemed to relate to the world we live in and the everyday choices we make.


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