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Summary: Freightening to imagine how easily this world could be ours.
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is an anti-censorship novel by Ray Bradbury, in which a world is presented that could very easily be our own. Its protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn books, but one night on the job he has a change of heart. He realizes how wrong it is to limit people's minds, and in this moment Bradbury makes the reader reflect about the importance of freedom and humanity. Montag reveals to his wife where he has hidden over twenty of the forbidden novels, and from that point on he finds himself being persecuted by the ignorance and coldness of the world around him. Montag's main antagonist is his former fire chief, Captain Beatty. Over the couse of the book he presents the reader with disturbingly realistic monologues concerning mankind's eventual decline into ignorance. The most alarming part of this decline is, as Beatty points out, that it was the people's choice. This ignorance is not only what leads to the burning of books, but also to a fear of their fellow man which made their world cold and unfeeling. Chilling in its realty, Fahrenheit 451 is just as relevant today as it was when first written.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I thought this was an excellent book, which really makes you think about how lucky we are to be able to say and read what we want. I am in grade 8 and read this as a school assignment, and I still thought that it was an excellent book. Notice how most of the bad reviews on this page are by young adults who were forced to read it? Well, you should disregard those reviews and go and buy it!
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Summary: I don't know what to say....
Review: I simply love this book. Let me tell you the story between me and te book. I had yo read it as part of my finnish classes and compare it to the Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams. not an easy job. anyway, i went to get the book from library on my lunch break and started reading it on my fyscis class (not recommeded to do that). I had finished the book in the same night. It was just so facinating, iteresting, so well written and it made me really think. I simply loved that book and amazingly you can say that it has something common with the guide, they both question the truth we have learned to keep as the thruths. And forgive me all my typos.
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Summary: I have not read it.
Review: I have not read the book, but I am doing a report on it in my english class. I am sure it would be a good book if I were ever to read it.
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Summary: So up to date, as if it was written yesterday
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is more important today than it was on the day it was written: it is terrifying to see how many things described in this book are coming to pass. It makes you wonder if a future in which books are burned and readers are chased like criminals is indeed so impossible or fantastic. This is in fact one of those books with "plenty of ideas per square inch," so much so, one could be discussing it for days, and indeed using more than the 1,000 words you are allowed to use here: the character of Beatty, who sincerely believes that books make you unhappy (and of course, he is right), but at the same time he's aware of the fact that books also give you power; the dislike of controversy and all things "difficult;" the hate directed against outstanding people; the watering down of art and literature through political correctness; the brainwashed TV people who think themselves happy but are in fact dissatisfied and violent...I find this book very moving and not "confusing" at all. In fact it is written in a very clean and economic style, with all that purple prose that ruins so many other books by Bradbury kept to the minimum. If you liked this book, check out the movie by François Truffault. If you missed Clarisse in the book, you will be glad to know that Truffault thought the same and her role in the movie is much more developed.
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Summary: Montag knows it...
Review: I really liked the way Montag challenged his own beliefs during the novel. It seemed like the chief firefighter, Beatty could have been in the same position, but he fell victim to society either by choice or because he thought it would benefit society. These people didn't know the difference between a "normal" society and a totalitarian society. So to us, the reader, he looked like the hero, but he looked like an antagonist in the society he was living. If we turn the tables around and put Montag into our present day society, and he challenged our present-day society, he would look like the opponent, or the radical right-winged activist. I know I don't agree with those kinds of people, so I probably would not have agreed with Montag if I were in that society because that is the safe way out. That is a safe way of thinking. I think Bradbury is trying to say that most of us take the safe way out when it comes to activism. I'm sure if I acted as Montag did in opposite in this present day and age, I would be looked down upon too. At the end, Montag and his friends try to make a difference in society no matter how hard the path in front of them would be. Maybe Bradbury is making the point that we should make a difference in our own society by taking an activist standpoint in the media, and standing for our beliefs, no matter how radical they might be. Because without that voice of difference, there would not be an active and working society.
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Summary: Great Book, Bradbury is a great author
Review: Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for 10 years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
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Summary: F 451 is a book for those who refuse to be dumbed down.
Review: As a high school junior, I was recently made to read Farenheit 451. Unlike the typical high school student, reading is one of my most cherished activities. Thus I was pleased to find that we would be reading 'heavy' novels and were expected to do some thinking beyond the usual confines of teen thought. I was shocked at the way most of my peers responded to the novel and the assignment itself. Most hated the novel and were disgruntled to find that we were (gasp) supposed to think? The very idea! It was actually quite ironic to find that the very ideas of lax thought and caring that Mr. Bradbury was trying to convey were precisely what I found in my classmates. It was also a disturbing discovery for me to make. Farenheit 451 was an excellent novel although I believe it was written far in advance of its time. Had it been published just recently, perhaps more people would understand the troubles it predicts, which are indeed staring us in the face. The most interesting part of the novel is that it came in a time when the Guy Montags of the world were frowned upon, as were individualism and self-expression. The struggles which Guy faces are a perfect example of today's struggles. There are some of us in the world who refuse to conform and think exactly like the government wants or society decrees. It makes one truly think about how close we have come to slipping into Guy's society. Look at Hitler and WW II. Look at genetic engineering and euthansia. Mr. Bradbury's novel gives a chilling and striking depeiction of what the world would be like without a few individualists. I recommend this novel to anyone who likes Kate Chopin or Ross Perot.
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Summary: Earth-Shattering
Review: When I first started reading this book, I realized it was just another quirky scifi book, that would end up with somebody killing somebody, and that would be the end. But as I neared the end of the book, something struck me. This COULD be OUR future...if we didn't DO something. This book completely changed my opinion about the contrast between literature and entertainment, censorship, and society in general.
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Summary: The book shows a bleak vision of the future of the world
Review: The book although very confusing , as the author uses too much detail , was intruiging . One of the things that didn't make sense was the reason for the character of clarisse mclellan's dissapearance. The ending of the book is too sudden , as if he rushed to complete the book .
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