Rating: Summary: Shades of the past are our Future Review: I read this book many years ago, and re-read it again many times since. As we grow closer to y2k and more emphesis is put on electronics, I've had recurring nightmares about children never again being able to pick up a book and flip through the pages. A book is a worthy thing, and too many worthy things have been lost. Look at us, even now as I write this, I am on an electronic device. Could it happen? (shrug) it might. Will it? lets hope not.
Rating: Summary: Fahrenheit 451....It sets a new record in boredom. Review: After reading it for a school project I would avise anyone reading these reviews to stay clear of it unless your eighty and you want waste your last few months of your life. Pointless, which school teachers of little old scotland make you read. If we have to burn books I put this one up to get burned straight away.
Rating: Summary: Breathtaking Review: This book was the most breathtaking, jawdropping, and eyeopening phenomenon. I have read this book several times and every time I see something that I didn't see before and gain one more level in the battle against ignorance.
Rating: Summary: rays story Review: well in gerneral I think that Is a good story and it is hard to understand. Im not a bright guy but it was hard for me to understand, but the parts that I did I liked it. It could have had a better ending.
Rating: Summary: Amazing Review: I personally thought that the originality of the plot was what made the book interesting for me. Never before had I read a book about the banning of books and using "firemen" to get rid of them. At times there were some lulls and some confusing parts, but overall Bradbury's unique style is what made the book worthwhile for me to read. I believe that Montag was at times a flat character that could use a little spice, but his growth throughout the novel seemed to counteract the deterioration within his own surrounding society. To think that one day our own society could be like Montag's; burning books and stifling creativity; is absolutely frightening to me and this book does not try to supress that notion. It actually amplifies it, but it can be used as a reference for our future generations so they would never reach that low point that Montag's society reached.
Rating: Summary: Burn, baby, burn! Review: Farenheit 451 is a wonderful book, though slow at times. I was intrigued by the idea of a future where thinking is looked down upon and mindless activity is promoted. Guy Montag is also a hero that I could sympathize with. For a interesting read, this book is an obvious choice.
Rating: Summary: Unfortuanetly prophetic Review: Ray Bradbury warned us of a culture that had no more ambitions then to watch TV. Much has come true. I mean how many people think "Titanic" actually qualifies as entertainment. He described a society were simplistic plots dominated. He also described a presidential race won because of one canidates charisma not because of wether or not his plans would work. Most of all Grandmaster Bradbury gives us hope. I sincerely believe that TV and movies will become obsolete to holograms and VR. Holograms and VR will become obsolete to somatic input devices. Nevertheless books will always be read. Why? I'm sixteen and proof that love of literature hasn't been completely lost on my generation. These are a few of the reasons this is one of my favorite books.
Rating: Summary: A Fun Park following the information in Fahrenheit451 Review: I don't know nothing about tha
Rating: Summary: One of the books that make you think of your own! Review: Fahrenheit 451 is one of the best books I have ever read. This book potrays a society, which may look too fake to be true, however, when we realise in what society we live in, we understand that it is not too far away. Every charachter of this novel wants to learn something to us.I liked especially one phrase of Beaty about Clarisse which shows exactly what people the government of the novel wants "She did not want to learn how a thing was done, but why.That can be embarrassing"
Rating: Summary: This book is too confusing and kind of boring Review: At first the book is very confusing and lame, but it gets better towards the middle. The idea is a little stretched out. I think the book should have ended without the last couple of chapters because I got sick of reading it. The author seems a little messed up.
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