Rating: Summary: Great! Review: This book is the number one banned book in the world. I, personally, thought it was great!
Rating: Summary: One of the best books and very chilling. Review: Ignore the people who claim this book is boring, horrible, or even offensive-this is one of the best books written, and paints a future that sometimes doesn't seem that far off. A book worth reading again and again.
Rating: Summary: Uckkk Review: I absolutly hated this book, It not only bored me but it aggervated me to the fullest. It wasn't realistic and the things that happen in the book were just stupid! Not to mention the main character's wife was just a moron, and who wants to burn books? I mean thats alittle odd, burning down houses because people owned books, ahhhhhhh, not a good book
Rating: Summary: Mediocre Review: After scanning all recommendations, I finally decided to buy Fahrenheit 451 because it appears on every list. I had pleasure in reading it, but was a little disappointed. Then again, maybe it's because the book is overrated that it failed to fulfill my expectations. Fahrenheit 451 presents vivid ideas (in vivid words too) but it is, I believe, NOT intellectually challenging nor thought-provoking enough for people seeking for heavy reading.
Rating: Summary: Amazing! Review: This novel is great. Don't be fooled when they call it "science fiction," as the world portrayed in this novel is disturbingly similar to our own. It only takes a small stretch of the imagination to picture our society developing (eventually!) into what Bradbury describes in this book... A must-read for any free-speech activist, as it deals mainly with censorship, as well as anyone who likes reading dystopian fiction! (Too bad I read it two years ago and don't remember it very well!)
Rating: Summary: Slipery Simon's Book Review Review: Fahrenheit 451 is about a middle aged man named Guy Montag. Guy is a fireman but, instead of putting out fires he starts them. Since all the houses have been fire proofed years ago there was nothing left for firemen to do so they started burning books. Books were a feared thing in the time of Guy. They are mysterious and scarey things so they must be burned. This was a good read. It was short, but excellently writen as are most of Bradbury's books. It was suspensfull and full of detailed descriptions about everything ranging form the color of the sky to the warmth of the burnig pages of the books. Infact I thought that sometimes there was a little too much description, but that was just me. I really liked the plot. THe idea was really good. Overall it was a very enjoyable book and I would recomend it to everyone. Even if you dont like science fiction I think you could apreciate the way it was written and the elegeant descriptions.
Rating: Summary: Overrated! Review: I found this book to be very dry and boring. I tried to compare this to The Giver, and I just conuldn't. I know that there are some good points to it, but not enought to sit and read it over and over again. PS-If you don't agree with me, please don't click the "No" button below.
Rating: Summary: Sweet, sweet irony Review: The irony of this book always slayed me. Here is a book of a future where books are like drugs: outlawed, sold on the black market, and if there's a "library," firemen destroy it. And the added bonus is that the main character, a loyal fireman, has a library! The irony that gets me is that this book is about banning books, yet it is a banned book, so nobody read it! (Ha ha, just kidding folks!)
Rating: Summary: One of the best views of modern thought ever. Review: When i first found this book in my eighth grade social studies classroom, the catchy title and the mysterious message lulled me. Beforehand i had never read Bradbury, or had been interested in him at all. The book changed everything for me. This insane landscape of mindlessness and of throwing away free thought enchanted me mentally and i was hooked. Mr. Bradbury is one of the greatest liberal thinkers in the world. Reading 451 can break the silly chains of political bias, and start you thinking for a change about how much freedom you need and how much you should use it. The ignorance and greed in us today echoes the insane eletric city of the firemen, and we mustnt shut our minds off to the world of literature and creativity if we ever wish to truly think about life.
Rating: Summary: A Must Read For Anyone Interested In Censorship Review: I absolutely loved this book. It is very easy to read, but very complex when looked at in depth. It really changed my views on government censorship. The short piece at the end of the book about the changing of various stories to make them "politically correct" is worth the price of the book itself. Bradbury is a brilliant man and this is one of his best books. I would recommend this book to all readers.
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