Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, … literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.more
Bradbury was very much ahead of his time. We are fast approaching the vision in the book…a world where people don’t have time to read, they merely watch interactive tv, or read short synopses. Truly a visionary novel.
One of the greats
First Dystopian book I read as a teenager.
Excellent book – for fans of dystopian novels.
Nightmare of Readers!
Bradbury is one of my favorite authors. He is a very imaginative storyteller.
The premise of the book is that paper ignites at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. It is a futuristic novel in which books are banned and burned. A Great read!
I highly recommend this BOOK and none of the movies made that share its title!!!
Delirious! A very fine concept!
This a good classic novel. He goes off the deep end a few times, but the message is as clear now as when it was written in the 50’s.
I hated every minute of it it was so horrific and I didn’t really see anything that was the wow factor
This book has a deeper meaning that, one realized, can change your world view completely. I read it as a teenager and it made me understand a truth about the world and how important it is to be an independent thinker.
Good
This book was written MANY years before the invention of the T.V. screens that are almost the size of walls, yet they are in this book. The personal communication devices of Blue tooth was years from being invented, yet they have “ear spools” in this book. Bradbury also gave a look of people moving away from reading and toward the self involved creatures that are so abundent nowadays. The things about peoples behaviors and those at the time not invented things are among the haunted themes that have stuck with me since reading the book the first time as a school assigned book in high school. I have read it many times since. It is one of my favorites that was assigned to us.
A world without books is a world I would not want to live in. Great dystopian read.
How horrifying to be told you can’t read, to not be allowed conflicting views, to attempt to make everyone be happy all the time. As a reader, this book was terrifying, I simply can not imagine a world without books in it. True to dystopian form, the government thinks it can control it’s people by taking away things we’ve always seen as basic rights. And heaven forbid someone should question that decision. This book will make you think, and look closer at the world around you and what liberties we are given at this point in time. Not to mention make you think about liberties that we’ve already lost or are beginning to lose and make you wonder just what’s next. We must all learn not to turn a blind eye to government taking over our decisions and telling us things we must or must not do!
was great 40 years ago, and still is.