Fahrenheit 451

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Summary: A Bad Book
Review: The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in my opinion is extremely confusing and difficult to read. The setting is in a futuristic world, where books are banned and anyone who is caught with books are prosecuted. The main character, Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn books. The world he lives in is plain and dull, and he becomes desperate for something exciting, so he begins to read the books that he burns. Once caught by his fellow fireman, Montag must flee from his home and run away to escape imprisonment or possibly death. In the book, some of the concepts are hard to understand, and the futuristic conceptions in the book may confuse the reader. The vocabulary isn't too difficult, but there are sections of the book that may set the reader off track. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone younger than the seventh grade level, and I would recommend this book to people who like science-fiction. Personally, I thought this book was very boring and it didn't capture my interest.

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Summary: Fahrenhet 451-AGHHHHHH
Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury...all I can think of is hard to believe, boring, and extremely hard to follow. This story takes place in a place that is supposed to be in the future where books are restricted and illegal. Firemen did not go to set out fires, but to light books on fire. The main character of this story is Guy Montag, who is a fireman. He becomes friends with an odd girl named Clarisse. She changes his mind about his job and how life should really be. Television is more important than family in this story, and Montag's wife, Millie, refers to the people in the television as her 'family'. This book was very original and out of the blue and also creative. Ray Bradbury's writing style was very interesting. He used a lot of skilled vocabulary that was confusing, and the whole book was like a jumble of words that were hard to understand. Some of the ideas in the book did not really pertain to the book's plot. I would definitely not recommend this book to anyone below the seventh grade. I am a seventh grader in Massachusetts and I hated this book. I didn't like it because it was so boring and it goes really slow. Fahrenheit 451 is this kind of book that makes you feel like reading it was a whole waste of time because it was so boring and pointless. I would recommend this though to people above the seventh grade who like science fiction book. If not, this book is not recommended at all by me.

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Summary: Expectations
Review: Not being a passionate Science Fiction reader, I did not enjoy Bradbury's writing ideas and form. I found this book to be a very slow read, not moving very fast. Some of Bradbury's ideas did not seem to fit into the story. I found this story to be too far into the future to relate to. I found the action of burning books to be very unreal in any society. I have read some other stories from Bradbury and part of one of his other books, Dandelion Wine, and Fahrenheit 451 did not match up to some of Bradbury's other works.

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Summary: It's Mediocre.
Review: The book Fahrenheit 451 is a mediocre quality book. It is rather easy to read (7th grade level) and is also easy to follow. The writing style is different because the culture is very different from anywhere today. The plot is also different due to books are banned in this world. This book is recommended to people who dislike books because this book shows the world without them, so those people may reconsider their opinions.

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Summary: A little Confusing
Review: Being in 7th grade I found this story to be a little confusing. The story took place in the future, when firemen start fires and not put them out. The plot involves a fireman named Montag who begins to question the way of society. At some points the plot got very confusing because the book would jump from scene to scene and from concept to concept. Ray Bradbury used many advanced words and metaphors and these contributed to the story getting confusing. Overall I enjoyed the book, and I would recommend this book to anyone after 8th grade because of confusion in the plot.

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Summary: NOT THAT GOOD
Review: Fahrenheit 451 was a disappointing book for a reader who is not an avid science fiction lover. This book is very difficult to read. The correctors a sometimes very confusing to understand. The setting is also very hard to have a visual picture. Although the plot is very good the way that it is described is hard to understand. I think if you are a science fiction lover that you would like this book. But if you sometimes like to read science fiction you will not like this because you have to be a huge science fiction lover to like this. I also think you need to be above the 6th grade or a very advanced reader.

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Summary: My Review
Review: This book was very interesting, but I wouldn't consider it a Sci-Fi. It takes place in the future, and firemen don't put out fires, they start them. Its about a fireman named Montag who starts to question the law that says you are not aloud to have books, and his adventure after. It was a difficult book to read, but there were some good vocabulary terms. It was also very descriptive. On a scale one to ten I would give it a six. It was a very creative story, but I am not a fan of many futuristic books. Kids under the sixth grade should not read this because they may get confused or not understand some of the words in the book.

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Summary: I want more
Review: I just finished Fahrenheit 451 and feel like I did when someone gave me a shareware version of a video game. I learned the moves, became someone addicted, cleared the third level and found that I needed a code to get the rest of the game. Only Ray didn't give away the code to 451!

This is clearly a fantastic story, horribly well written. I have wish listed several more of his books for future reading. Unfortunately 451 is long enough that you suspend some of the caveats used when reading short stories. With a book this long, I want developed characters to be resolved. Several characters just go away, which left me lacking at the end. Sometimes this is intended, and strong. In this case, it seemed thoughtless and abrubt.

Don't miss the afterword and coda at the end. Very nice additions.

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Summary: A compelling, enigmatic twist of images and implications
Review: I read this book in two days, and was focused throughout, inhaling Bradburys words and letting the book have its effect on my mind.

What the book is missing in a THICK plot it gains in its writing style. Bradbury is simply a literary genius, and post-modern Marxist environments are his playground. The way that Bradbury depicts the forest which Montag enters after leaving the river is extremely surreal, if not surrealism in its nature.

What I mean by "What the book is missing in a THICK plot," is that Bradbury could have developed the story in a more progressive fashion, rather than leaving out some important aspects of Montag's world. The overall politics of the time in which this is supposed to take place are not even present in the novel. The way in which the society went from not being interested in books, to burning them also seems to be under-expressed.

Criticizing an artist is something that I have a hard time doing, for when a writer writes, he writes, and that is all. Bradbury wrote, and this book is him, with its perceived flaws and all, I think that it is a masterpiece in a poetic sense, not in the sense that it has become a staple of highschool literature.

I will put it this way, if you like the colorful environments of Allen Ginsbergs poetry, then you will surely enjoy at least the aesthetic qualities of Fahrenheit 451.

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Summary: "Speculative Fiction" at it's very best!
Review: Ray Bradbury once called himself a writer of "speculative fiction." He most certainly based that statement on this very book. Bradbury's view of the future from 1953 is proving its merit now that it is beginning to come true. Similar to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, Bradbury's novel tells of a world in which the government has entrapped society in a web of propaganda. Bradbury's novel differentiates itself from the other two, however, in that it focuses on this oppressive government's censorship of literature and the "firemen," who burn these illegal books. Fahrenheit 451 also is far more entertaining to read, as it is in pure Bradbury style, with vivid, colorful writing, and Bradbury's standard metaphors at every turn of the page. A great read for any Bradbury fan, a science fiction reader, or anyone who wants to see society with a whole new perspective. in sum, this book proves that Ray Bradbury has got the future's number. That number is, of course, Fahrenheit 451.