Fahrenheit 451 CD

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Summary: There needs to be a 6-star rating. Just for this book.
Review: The stereotype of teenagers in general is that they hate to read books. Well I am one of those teens that fit into that category, and, having read this book for an assignment, I have to say that I don't regret substituting passing notes for reading this book. The descriptions of the future are so exact and precise that it's mind boggling. Clarisse (In Part I) portrays almost perfectly what nobody else could. There are parts of the book where you expect one thing to happen, and you get something totally different and say to yourself "Whoa..." and you are almost forced to think about it. I can't reccommend this book enough.

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Summary: A must read - especially for teenagers.
Review: This is my first re-read of this book as an adult (I'm now 46). I recalled enjoying the book a lot when I first read it around the age of 17 - I recently recommended it to my daughter, age 14, and she thought it was one of the best books she ever read. My attitude now towards the subject of potential loss of freedom combined with mass culture, although much more down-to-earth than it was in my teens, is still pretty much the same: respect and appreciation of human freedom of expression. Bradbury is very clear in his fight for freedom, the extreme fictional situation he devised is now more real than ever - true we are not prohibited from keeping books (in this country anyway), but we are offered enough mass culture that most people will spend hours in front of the TV rather than reading books or visiting museums (I do that a lot too). It is hard to believe that this book was written in the 1950's.

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Summary: Incredible literature!(I am only 12, I read this for school)
Review: This novel portrays censorship and conformity incredibly well. Not only was the story outstanding, but the way in which it was written was phenominal. Ray Bradbury's Far451 depicts a society where books are illeagal, and fire men are for burning any books found are burned. Guy Montag, the main charachter is a fire man, reads a book. He learns to love books, and is not afraid to do what he belives. Everyone else does what they are supposed to : watch T.V. and other forms of entertainment that require little, or no intellect whatsoever.(that is just the very beginning) This novel is very close to real life, and is the most acurate prediction of where our society is headed (Not literaly!, just the conformity, and the censorship) There is more to conformity than what appears to be, as Ray demonstrates. It also eliminates love in some ways, and "life". Without ever doing anything that reqires your brain (your life is lived for you) you can't expirence emotions in the same way.YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK. This book is like the giver. If you like the giver, you will LOVE THIS!!!

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Summary: great thinker
Review: This book was extremly boring! True it says a lot about how our future could be. You can also see that it is actually starting to happen in todays society. But this is our own fault for giving into the new technology. All of what I have read it seems you rate the book on how it can tell the future. If the rating was on that I would give it an 8. But that's not the case. This was a great thought processing book but not very well written. I advice children to stay away because they would become very disinterested fairly fast. If you love to think, understand how to interpret symbolic meanings, and loves science-fiction GO FOR IT!!!

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Summary: A scary look into the future
Review: I think this is the best book I have ever read. It also scared the crap out of me because of how the future looks.

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Summary: ALRIGHT FOR SCHOOL READING-NOT A TAKE HOME BOOK
Review: I think Ray Bradbury is an intelligent man. But I don't think I would ever pick up one of his books on my own time. I didn't mind reading it for school because it was so bizarre that it kinda kept my attention. I would definately say it's not a MUST READ, but it's alright for school. Everyone who has to read this in the future...ENJOY!

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Summary: Quite an achievement
Review: I read this book as an assignment when I was 11 or 12, I believe. The reason I write this is because all the moronic kids who were "forced" to read it seem to think it sucks; well, let the record show that not *all* schoolchildren are idiots who must interpret every line of every book literally. I was duly impressed by the book even in 7th grade (?) and it gets better the older I get. The fact that I, an impoverished (well, you know what I mean) teenager, am willing to pay double the price of the book for a signed copy says something.

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Summary: One of the very best books I've read
Review: I read this book 10 years ago in Russian translation. Awesome, thoughtful, simply fantastic book about where our society (in particular American one) is going. I had trouble relating some of his concerns at that time since russian culture has had books at the top of priorities. Now, years later, living here I realize the keenness of his observations and ideas. I am troubled as much as he was about the way our generation perceives books. He was so right, so right writing about it all. Too bad he was so right. I recommend this book to anyone who still has some space left for something original, inducing thought, Un-Godzilla, Un-Happy-end-Hollywood-like movies and cheap made-to-order money-making books. My deep respects to Bradbury.

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Summary: When our minds go dead... Firemen won't be Firemen.
Review: This book was awsome. I read it in a matter of hours because I couldn't put it down. Just thinking about firemen starting the fires, to make the world "agree" with its self. If to read books was against the law, I don't see how people could live in a world like that. Censorship to the bone. This book is a must read.

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Summary: If you haven't read this book, you are depriving yourself
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is truly, one of the best novels that I have ever read. I read this book from front to back non-stop, because i couldn't put it down. I have many friends who are not very big fans of reading who read this book and loved it. And it is just those people that justify this book. If you haven't read this book, you cannot comprehend what you're missing.