Fahrenheit 451
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Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires…
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning…along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag loved his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames…never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-ancient girl who told him of a past when people were not worried.
Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could reflect…and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don’t place out fires–they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury’s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal–a place where trivial information is excellent, and knowledge and thoughts are terrible. Fire Captain Beatty clarifies it this way, “Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more well loved songs…. Don’t give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television “family tree,” beseeching Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door national Clarisse, a young girl tickled by the thoughts in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is stirred to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an bandit band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury–the leader of more than 500 fleeting tales, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man–is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the upsetting suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. –Neil Roseman
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I had to read this book for school, and it is one of the most dull books I’ve ever read. There are three sections, and all that the main character, Montag does in the first section is meet a girl named Clarisse and talks to her once or twice and starts “considering” his job as a fireman burning books. This should give you a rough overview of what the book is like: way to descriptive. A lot of my friends in the class didn’t even read the second or third sections because it was so incredibly dull. There are so many descriptions and stuff that it is so hard to know the tale.
While I despised this book, if you’re the kind of person who likes sci-fi books with a lot of descriptions, then you should read Fahrenheit 451.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I reflect this book isn’t worth the money you pay for it. Ray Bradbury does not clarify the tale very elaborate and and so e.g. it is very hard to know what the people are talking about.
Furthermore, the tension the fireman acts with doesn’t get clear in the description by Bradbury. This is a very terrible style of telling a tale and makes me reflect the leader himself didn’t like the tale.
The dialogues between the fireman, Montag, and the girl he meets on the street are forced and do not seem plain. So it is a fantastic effort reading it.
I have to read this book at school and I do not have any motivation to analyze it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Fahrenheit 451 lists in my top 5 of worst books ever. my english class had to read it. i didnt even read the lastsection. by the time the first test rolled around, i hadnt even read 10 pages. i evenually forced myself to read it but stopped when i got to last section cause i thought if i read anymore, i might die. i felt no tie to the characters, no emotion towards them. Everything is drawed out way to much. when he could easly say something in a couple pages, he takes like 50 to tell one small minor thing. For me, its really dull and stupid. For u, many ur will like it. Maybe not. Cant no until u attempt to read it(NOTE: i said attempt)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I had to read this when I was in high school. So did my children. Now my GRANDCHILDREN have to read it! None of us has been able to learn WHY! Of all of the superb books I have read in my life, not ONE has ever been selected for required summer reading!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I delight in past fictions, so I knew “Fahrenheit 451″ was not my style, but I thought I would give it a go anyway. Well, I despised it. I did not like Ray Bradbury’s style and I reflect he needs help! Who in their right mind would reflect of our world apt so controlling and horrible? There are a lot of unanswered questions and undefined terms in this book, so you better get the Cliff’s Notes, because lacking them, you’ll be lost. Do not be surprised if you do not end this book quickly, either! I did find the theme of book banning and censorship appealing, but I reflect it could have been told differently. I do not recommend this book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5