Fahrenheit 451 CD

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Summary: I tried reading this book for my summer reading & it was bad
Review: I am sorry this book did not make any sense and I am a straight A student. If you have a choice I wouldn't pick this one.

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Summary: RB did a great job describing why censorship is wrong
Review: Bradbury's way of writing forces you to think about how non-sensical the world is becoming. While throwing in a couple of other ideas, he builds up to describing the horrors of censorship. It seems ridiculous that the could actually become that crazy, but if we tried to make the world perfect-it would leave many people unhappy. And if we destroy books, we're destroying a person's valuable opinion containing the key to the past.

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Summary: Horrible book
Review: This was the worst book I've ever read. Most of the book was just saying the exact same thing a million different ways. It was an interesting idea behind the book, but it was altogether boring the way it was written.

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Summary: this book was awful
Review: This book makes absolutely no sense at all. I read the first page and I didn't like it. I have to read it for school and I have fallen asleep 4 times reading it. All of my friends hate it to. We have a test on the 2nd day of 8th grade. Even using the Cliffs Notes didn't help at all. I don't recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: A well-written novel.
Review: I had to read this book for schoool. I am going into eighth grade. At first, I thought that the book was a bunch of nonsense, but as I got further into it, I realized that it was an enjoyable, well-written novel. I strongly reccomend this book to people. The ending was especially great.

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Summary: A modern classic for the "must read" list.
Review: Bradbury's chilling and well-written vision of an all-too-possible future is absolutely timeless. It succeeds in its purpose of encouraging readers to take a second look at their own society, values and beliefs. The resulting parallels between Bradbury's creation and our own existence are discomforting at times. "Farenheit 451" has been required reading in many schools for many years; this indeed is where I first read it. To any other reader, student or otherwise, I say this: View reading this book as a privilege. The very fact that we as a society can peruse this outstanding work and form our own opinions about it ensures that Bradbury's dire prediction of the future will remain only fiction.

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Summary: Target Practice
Review: Heyyyy I had to read this book for school and it was the worst thing I ever read. A worthless good for nothing piece of junk! Actually it is good for something. I took this book with me to rifle practice and i shot at this instead of the target. I got busted but hey it was worth it. Mail me if you want a picture of my shooting.

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Summary: The best book i have read!!!
Review: I think this was the best book that was ever printed. I don't understand why that one reviewer said that him and his friends stopped reading it after 5 pages. I think that there is something wrong with them. Maybe something in the head. Well, i recomend this book 105% to anyone.

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Summary: Chilling and eerie in its depiction of a bookless future.
Review: The book, "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, is an exceptional telling of a future that might have been, and might still be. The story is of a young man, a "fireman", in a future where information and knowledge come from television. Books are banned, and owning a book is punishable by death. The fireman becomes fascinated with why people would be willing to risk death in order to own something the state says is bad for them. He steals a book and reads it. Then he steals another book and another and another. Eventually he becomes exactly what he has been trained to eradicate. Finally he is turned in, by his wife, who doesn't understand his change in attitude and must answer a call to come to his own house...where his stolen collection of books are burned. He runs away and goes into hiding, until he eventually comes upon a group of people living outside the city without luxury of television. The people in this group have solved the problem of not being allowed to own books. Each person selects a book and then commits it to memory...in effect they become the book. If they are searched, they have no books and cannot be punished. They have become the receptacles for all the world's great literature and for their own future; a future that someday may permit books. This is a brilliant story, which has many parallels to America today, and not just Nazi Germany in the 30's. Less than 50% of Americans read newspapers; the idea of functional illiteracy has become commonplace; and an entire generation doesn't know anything that didn't come out of the television. As Howard Beale says in the movie Network, "You dress like the tube, you talk like the tube, you raise your children like the tube...My God, you maniacs...you are the real thing, we are the illusion."

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Summary: BURN THIS BOOK!
Review: Hey A reader from MISSOURI, I hear you. This book makes no sense what so ever and i had to read it for school. I have no idesa just how in the world a book this horrible could have stayed around for 40 years!!! I have talked to everyone I know and they all read the first 5 pages and immeadiatly hated it. THey rented the movie and watched some of it so they won't have to read it, and it was verbatum, and guess what...it was even worse than the book! I do reccomend this book to all of you...well only if you want to find out how terrible books can get or you want to find out what type of flammable liquid burns better on books!