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Summary: Chilling and eerie in its depiction of a bookless future.
Review: The book, "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, is an exceptional telling of a future that might have been, and might still be. The story is of a young man, a "fireman", in a future where information and knowledge come from television. Books are banned, and owning a book is punishable by death. The fireman becomes fascinated with why people would be willing to risk death in order to own something the state says is bad for them. He steals a book and reads it. Then he steals another book and another and another. Eventually he becomes exactly what he has been trained to eradicate. Finally he is turned in, by his wife, who doesn't understand his change in attitude and must answer a call to come to his own house...where his stolen collection of books are burned. He runs away and goes into hiding, until he eventually comes upon a group of people living outside the city without luxury of television. The people in this group have solved the problem of not being allowed to own books. Each person selects a book and then commits it to memory...in effect they become the book. If they are searched, they have no books and cannot be punished. They have become the receptacles for all the world's great literature and for their own future; a future that someday may permit books. This is a brilliant story, which has many parallels to America today, and not just Nazi Germany in the 30's. Less than 50% of Americans read newspapers; the idea of functional illiteracy has become commonplace; and an entire generation doesn't know anything that didn't come out of the television. As Howard Beale says in the movie Network, "You dress like the tube, you talk like the tube, you raise your children like the tube...My God, you maniacs...you are the real thing, we are the illusion."
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Summary: BURN THIS BOOK!
Review: Hey A reader from MISSOURI, I hear you. This book makes no sense what so ever and i had to read it for school. I have no idesa just how in the world a book this horrible could have stayed around for 40 years!!! I have talked to everyone I know and they all read the first 5 pages and immeadiatly hated it. THey rented the movie and watched some of it so they won't have to read it, and it was verbatum, and guess what...it was even worse than the book! I do reccomend this book to all of you...well only if you want to find out how terrible books can get or you want to find out what type of flammable liquid burns better on books!
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Summary: A truly fascinating look at things
Review: This book, though possibly confusing in some places, is a wonderful look at a world where Firemen are paid to burn books. It describes a world where all the masterpieces of classical literature are "simplified" and "toned down" into tasteless TV episodes. But not everyone thinks this is right...A classic, it is a true page-turner, full of wonderful Braburyan irony and suspense. A must-read.
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Summary: IT ISNT A HARD READ BUT INTERESTING
Review: THIS IS ONE OF THOUGHS BOOKS WHICH I FEEL LEAVES BEFORE ONE WANTS IT TO. THIS BOOK TELLS AN EXELENT STORY, BUT IT IS NOT AS DEEP AS I EXPECTED. THIS BOOK IS AT ABOUT AN 11 GRADE LEVEL AND IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A QUICK SIMIMEANNINGFULL READ THEN HEY, BUT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME SUBSTANCE THAN TRY OUT SOMETHING ELSE.
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Summary: In my opinion, the greatest and most prophetic book written.
Review: What can I say about this book? It was written several decades ago, but it eerily parallels a lot of what is happening today. From Big Screen TV's to Political Correctness. This is one novel that Has to be taught in the classroom.
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Summary: Remarkably redembling our world today !
Review: This novel is an excelent book to read. It's a fiction book, interlinked with a remarkable similarity to our society. It could be catologed as a satire to the world we live in. One in which our minds have little time to think on thier own, and are guided by false entertainment. It takes place in the future (written around 1950) and the heart change a fireman has towards his career. By fireman I mean a man who puts books a blaze since they are ilegal in thier time.
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Summary: A beautiful warning written 40 years before it was needed.
Review: I loved this book because of it's value as a warning to everyone who is addicted to T.V. and these blasted computers. I read this book over a week and passed it on to a friend telling him I didn't want to see it again and that he should pass it on to someone who would gain wisdom from it. Bradbury is starting to become a hobby now I've just started a third book written by him and I hope I'll read all of them.
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Summary: Read and Re-read for over 20 years
Review: I first picked up this book when I was 11 and have re-read it about once a year since then. As I get older I notice more and more the similiarities between what Bradbury said the future would be when he wrote the tale and what it is now. One of the most chilling sections is when Montage's boss describes how "political correctness" got out of hand and became a harbringer of the new dark age the book describes. If you haven't read this, do. I am definitely not the first to call it a classic.
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Summary: You'll look at society in whole new way
Review: WOW! This book will make you think, and be thankful that you can. At first the futuristic world that is proposed seems foreign and unrealistic, but as you sink deeper into the story, you realize that the zombie-like society isn't that far from our own. After reading this book you'll probably drive to work a little slower and look out the window at the things in life we too often take for granted. This book shows the importance of voicing your opinions, but also not censoring the opinions of others.
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Summary: I AM SO CONFUSED!!
Review: I WAS INTRIGUED TO READ THIS BOOK B/C I AM VERY INTRESTED IN BOOKS AND THIS BOOK WAS RECOMMENDED BY A FRIEND. I HAVE READ THE FIRST PART TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND AM STILL HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON. CAN SOMEONE OUT THERE PLEASE HELP?!?!?!?! THANKS, MARGIT
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