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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: The book Fahrenheit 451 was one of the best books that I have ever read. I am one of those people who don't read often and don't enjoy books, so having said that is amazing enough for me. What astounds me is that this book was written in the 1950's and the author was able to make some predictions about the future. Now we may not be quite where this book takes place time wise, but some of the technology that is mentioned in this book is not too distant in our future. This book really caught my attention because some of the ideas were ones that I too have thought about. The main reason they burned the books was because they didn't like anything that was fiction, or were unsure it was true. They saw that there was no point in discussing such matters of scientific or religious nature if they could not be proved, but that's just my theory. If you end up reading this book, than you might come up with your own. I recommend this book to anyone who is willing to have an open mind.
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Summary: A World Without Books
Review: I have really enjoyed reading the book Fahrenheit 451. The book takes place in a society which is completely different than ours, at some point in the future. In this society it is illegal to have books of any kind, and the story depicts the man whose job it is to go around and burn these books. The fireman, Guy Montag, begins to go against his job, and sneaks books so that he can read them. I am not usually a fan of many books, so I thought that a world without books would be a great place to live. After reading this Ray Bradbury novel my view has changed. Because there are no books in this society there is no way for the people to express themselves, and everyone ends up being almost exactly the same. This type of uniformity was the direct result of not having books for people to read and allow them to write to express their feelings. This story has taught me that books are an important forum for expression, and when a book can keep me interested and reading throughout, and send an important message, that is a quality book in my mind. That is why Fahrenheit 451 got a four star rating from me.
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Summary: something special
Review: A nice easy read for someone who may be interested in a futuristic fun read. Guy Montag brings to the reader a whole new life style that no one has ever experienced. I enjoyed reading this book because there was never a moment when I felt bored with what I was reading or thought of putting it down. I recommend this book to the young adult who is looking for an a relaxing, fun read.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
Review: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a terrifying world of the future. Books are not allowed. Firemen burn them and the homes of those who own them. The main character, Guy Montag, is one of these firemen. The joy of his life is setting books on fire until his loony 17-year-old neighbor suggests that maybe books are good things. She tells him of a time in the past when people read and were not punished for it. This gives Guy an unstoppable urge to see what's in one of those books. He reads one, and now he can't stop.
While this was a great book with a very scary plot, I do have one complaint: Bradbury will often list completely random things for no apparent reason. They make no sense and make me wonder why they were included in the book. Other than that, the writing is wonderful. Bradbury's descriptions create vivid, sometimes spooky images of his characters and places such as the terrifying electronic hound. There's lots of great action and strange developments. Fahrenheit 451 is a wonderful work that I would recommend to just about anyone. It would be a great way to pass an afternoon. It's a very quick read that you could finish within a few hours. The writing, while confusing at times, is still very interesting. You are quickly brought into the story. Once again, this is a great book for all ages and an interesting view of the future from the past.
-Fitzgerald Flabbermonkey P.S. I'm actually over 12
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Summary: Orwell's shadow
Review: 'Fahrenheit 451' is a powerful story that imagines a future world where literature is burned and readers are imprisoned. Bradbury creates a whole dumbed-down society of people who are robbed of creative and independent thought, and where this deficit is enforced by law. I felt that the major shortcoming of the book was that the entire book smacks of '1984,' but it is not nearly as powerful as Orwell's story. 'Fahrenheit 451' focuses much more intently on the relatively narrower issue of censorship in our society, whereas '1984' looks at the complete robbery of free will. I thought all of the characters were a rip-off, from the young girl to the protagonist to the mean authority figure who tries to "help" the protagonist and turns on him in the end. This is a good book, and I like the metaphor, I just felt like the same idea was espoused in a much more gripping fashion in '1984.'
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Summary: good..
Review: I enjoyed reading this. The book is about a fireman who starts having doubts about his job and his home life. He begins wondering if what he is doing is the right thing to do but it may cost him his job, wife and life. His strugles go on though out the book and in this furture that he lives in he is alone. Just a simple man with his thoughts wondering how different live would be if people were allowed to read books....
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Summary: It starts a fire in one's mind
Review: Fahrenheit 451: less than 200 pages and has an interesting title. If these two facts weren't enough to make me pick a book to do a project on, I don't know what else would make me. Fortunately, my interest in this book would later become much deeper than simple laziness. What started off as a series of stories in a science fiction magazine would become a novel set in the future world. Books have been banned, and there was a strong force to enforce this policy. Guy Montag, the main character of this story, was one of the many who set ablaze to homes containing books. Montag was happy in a world where the role of the fire department had been reversed from years ago. That is, until he meets a young lady named Clarisse. After a couple of pleasureful conversations and her sudden disappearance, Montag's subconscious dislike of the society he lives in is unlocked. He realizes the shallowness of society starting with his own wife who thinks of her family as three television screens in the parlor. He is also particulary bothered by a woman who was willing to burn with her house after being caught with books. It is all now clear that this society and its censorship has gone terribly wrong. What Bradbury wants to bring our attention to is not that books have been banned, but that restricted society didn't happen in a matter or 24 hours. One word banned over the airwaves leads to another, leads to another leads to another. Pretty soon, free speech and thought aren't even tangible. Though this is a ficticious society, it is realisitic that this type of thing has happened in past civilizations and is still being tried in other areas of the world. At first a slow read became a blazing pace through words of predicition and fear of what could theoretically happen to a society in this world. The fact this could happen will stay with me for a long time. The book makes me want to keep my mind open to everything that i can. I think that's a pretty good thing to come out with after a short 2 hour read. And finally, if I had never heard of the book, I wouldn't know that i really could use the cardboard dish used to cook instant brownies in.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Of all the Distopia oriented books I have read this is my favorite. It's also the one that I think had the most probibility of actually happening. Not necessarily book-burning, but the whole complex of censoring things to make everyone happy. That sort of stuff is happening more and more everyday. Nothing else to say besides it's frightening and brilliant.
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Summary: Overall a great book
Review: I enjoyed this book to an extent. I disliked a lot of things about it also. This book is about a futuristic time where censorship has been taking too far. The idea that as we keep censoring different things to please different minorities we sometimes lose a lot that is good I found very appealing. It seems as if society today does seem to censor too much and is it fixed on appealing to everyone. In this book we find what would happen if we did try to appeal to everyone and not offend anyone. It shows the future without books as being filled with people that have no personalities. People pretty much become drones, each person exactly like the last. The main character, Guy Montag's wife is a perfect example of this. She has no life outside of watching television, which is how most people spend their time in this story. Montag is a fireman who in this day burns books rather than put out fires. He later meets characters who intrigue him and get him to start stealing some books to read and find out what they are about. He soon finds the problems with his society that he is a part of and understands the importance of books. Although this book did have some great points to the negative side of censorship I couldn't really enjoy how unrealistic it was. I just couldn't get over the fact that all people had banned books completely. It was just an unrealistic future in my eyes and I couldn't get over it. Overall, I would recommend this book to all readers even with my dissatisfaction of it.
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Summary: Book review for english
Review: When I began reading the book Fahrenheit 451 I did not enjoy it very much. But after I put more time into reading this book I started to like it more and more. One of the reasons I liked the book so much was because of the great detail, but it still leaves room for you to think about what is going on. Ray Bradbury's vision of the future does not seem to far fetch for me. With how our society is, and the love for television I could see how the banning of books can occur. This has already happened in history before. This story is about a fireman Guy Montag and his life. His job is to burn books and the houses they are in. He is happy with this until his young neighbor Clarisse Mcclellan. She shows him how horrible the society the live in really is and changes his views in several ways. All of the symbolism in this book was so amazing once you understood it. Light and dark, symbolizing good and bad, was used often in Fahrenheit 451. I also enjoy how rolls reverse in this book, like in our society and in the future society. In the book the fireman are completely the opposite of what ours are today, also in the future society you can not drive under the speed minimum or you get a ticket. This shows how the government doesn't want people to take there time because they could have time to think about new and interesting thins. One thing I didn't like about the book was that throughout it the author goes into less detail about how the society in which they live in is ran and more detail on how he goes about living in it. But I think the author did this to get focus on the problem at hand. I enjoyed how the author makes you find the under lying meaning in the book and that is a good aspect in my opinion. I also like how the book can be compared to Hitler and what he was doing when he was in control of the German government. The way the society does not like having freethinkers and having open minds is almost exactly like what Hitler was trying to do to the people of Germany. I think it is great how it shows how far ahead of his time the author was. I think his interpretation of the future could be accurate. My overall opinion of the book is it is a good read. It can become boring at times but it can also be extremely exciting at points too. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes the thought of futuristic societies and what can happen to the world after we leave. I think it is a very well written book but doesn't define some of its characters as well as it should. But that isn't a reason to not read the book. I think anyone could enjoy reading this book. It makes you think and has so many metaphors and similes that at some points are too much. But it is a great book.
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