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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It was great!
Review: This book that we read in class was really good. It was really interesting how the book was written. Having it placed in the future was really cool and it was a different than other books that I have read. Ray Bradbury seemed to have a really creative imagination. I really liked the plot and the setting of the book. It (like I stated before) was different. I liked the way the author used the different characters to support the one main charater, Montag in his troubles in his own life. I would be interseted in reading more books by him in the future.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Book
Review: I really enjoyed Fahrenheit 451, it was a very entertaining book. I hope many of these concepts never come true though. Occurances such as burning books, no speed limit would cause the world to be very crazy. There was never dull point in this book. I found these concepts very thought prevoking and interesting. This book explains what it would be like living in this type of surreal world.The idea of having no pedistrians allowed would would also be very strange. All in all, it was a great book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fahrenheit415
Review: I thought this novel was great. Bradbury's descriptions of the characters of his novel helped the reader to understand what they had to do with this novel. This story is great for anyone who likes fictional storys. In this book which is based on the future describes life as being happy 24 hours a day. The world it takes place in is a place where fireman start fires they don't put them out. Also speeding in legal but having or reading a book is illegal and the price you pay for having one is that the fireman burn your house down and you just might be injected with a four inch needle by thier mechanical hound. If you like suspence and wierd but good ending to a novel i would suggest you read this novel.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: I thought that this novel was great if you like fictional stories with a wierd but understanding ending. Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 was based in the future where fireman did not put out fires but started them. Speeding was legal,books were outlawed including no reading except for fireman which could have them up to 24 hours. If you were caught with a book in your house, the fireman and their mechanical hound would burn your house down. The theme of this novel was happieness. This novel was very well wrote. Bradbury had action, suspence which keep me reading and oh the quizzes my english teacher gave us, also wonderful description of the characters and what role they played in the story.The novel over all was great and i would recommend anyone who just likes to read to read it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Farenheit 451 was aight
Review: I thought Farenheit 451 was a good book. It takes a while to get to the point though. It just starts of a little slow thats all I Mean. I really enjoyed the description done by Bradbury in the book his detail was very distinct. In the first half of the book the main character Montag a firefighter trys to discover himself. After all a firefighter starts fires in this story, and that might get to a person after a while. He wants to know why firefighters are supposed to burn books and why books are so bad.In the second half of the book Montag starts to use his head and stop letting everyone else control him. He becomes a fugitive and this is where the action begins. He ends up being chased by mechanical dog's and hellicopters and gets in fights with flamethrowers. I think that sais it all for the second half of the story. The soft Sci-Fi novel was very interesting and gets you thinking. I enjoyed it alot and hope everyone else gets a chance to read it and post their opinion.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a book that attacks what our society is becoming. Yes, we have a long way to go to be in a state where books are outlawed and firemen start fires instead of stopping them. But still, we have a good head start. People come home from work and plop on the couch and watch TV. You have to be an intellectual to read books. It's just not the norm anymore. In this book, TV has taken over people's lives with wall to wall TV screens. The imagination is lost in the hours of meaningless violence and comedy that is blasted through cables to people's homes. Then, through an array of events, the main character, Montag, starts to wonder about things and think for himself. With society frowning upon thinking, he's in a world of trouble. Fahrenheit 451 is a book that makes the reader think "What really is important in my life?"

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Decent Book
Review: Bradbury expounds a firghtening message in Farenheit 451. The book details life where firefighters burn the corpus of many well known authors such as Faulkner and Shakespeare. The book shows the importance of an outlet where people can express their ideas.

This message is increasingly important as we near the horrific society portrayed in bradbury's novel. Like the society in F451 we are becoming dependent on television. Books are in a period of quiesence.

The book sends it's theme, but it sends it with a hammer. If my memory serves, the book is no larger than 170 pp. Bradbury innundates every paragraph towards the end with his theme. The book is overly sententious, and I wish it was longer. The end seemed rushed and out of a cheesy b movie.

Despite this flaw, Bradbury's prose is to die for. In simple, specific words Bradbury manages to convey a convoluted theme. This will remain a classic for years to come, that is if we still have books. Hopefully, F451 will recrudese book's in the future. One can only hope that our grand children will giggle over Wodehouse or marvel at F451.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: If you can read this book....
Review: ....and not feel outraged at the well-intentioned censors of the world, then you probably didn't understand it. But then, you probably wouldn't be shopping here for books, either. In a world in which literature and philosophy and all "deep" writings suffer the fate of the lost library at Alexandria, Montag's dilemma involves all of us.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Very Interesting
Review: Fahrenheit 451 was very realistic and makes you wonder if the world will turn out like that. Ray Bradbury is also a great author. His description is very good. Fahrenheit 451 is almost a little to advanced. It is hard to imagine the world ever getting that way. I personally prefer books that could actually happen and this seems very unreal.But does keep you wondering what will happen. Many youth seemed to like this book and I think it was very interesting.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: And you thought we had tough laws...
Review: Can't drive slow. Can't think deep thoughts. Can't have individuale ideas. Can't go for a walk. Can't read.

If you had to live in a society where these were the rules how would you perform? Well in Ray Bradbury's clasic novel Fahrenheit 451, these are a few of the rules. This is a society where most people only care about themselfs. The firemen are more like policemen then firemen. They are responsible for up holding the law. If anyone if found to have a book it is the job of the firemen to take care of the situation. With flamethroughers in hand they burn not only the books but the building that houses them. It is said that firemen never have put out a fire. Guy Montag is a fireman. Occurring to Guy Montag: "It was a pleasure to burn." Montag loved his job immensely. To him the sent of kerosene was like perfume. Montag always exempted thing for the way they were. He was "happy". He had all the things he needed to be "happy". Why should he change. He would go to work, play cards, burn books, and go home. It was a simple life which most people led. This "happy" life would come to a sudden end, and his new life would begin, when he meets Clarisse.


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