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
An Ironic Novel Worth Reading A Few Times
A little unnerving in my opinion. Good Sci Fi book by a great author.
Completely timeless and painfully relevant.
One of my favorites of all time.
A classic, but not my favorite.
As much as I didn’t think that I would like the book before reading it, I actually enjoyed it. I’m not a fan of dystopian literature, but this was an exception. I highly recommend the book, way more than the movie.
Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite sci-fi authors along with Issachar Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. Not a bad book amongst them. All thought provoking authors with Mr. Bradbury being my first foray into the genre.
you can see the beginning of that era now. LOOK AROUND AT THE U.S. OF THE OFFENDED AND THINK WHERE IT COULD LEAD
Makes one think!
Taught it to tenth graders
One of your categories should be thought-provoking. I’d check that one.
A great warning of taking the wrong turn as a society.
Classic.
Good story bad ending
A cult classic. Older writing style that newer/younger readers may not appreciate. A must read for sci-fi nerds.
read it in high-school and enjoyed it, but looking back I don’t think I fully appreciated it. definitely on my list to re-read.
Classic everyone should read. It is uncanny the imagination of Bradbury was so spot on about electronics.
How often do we have the insite to see the other side of common institutions, even the most helpful now May be twisted for a government’s own purpose and not for the good of the people. Haunghtings of “1984” !
We are living this in my home. The of the library at Alexandria may have inspired this
Like several dystopian fictions, a warning and a prophesy. Especially with the ‘new and improved’ ‘government of the pigs, by the pigs, and for the pigs’ that we have suffered under for the last one hundred odd years, bound and determined to outdo Arthur Koestler’s observations about political language and deception, a profound WARNING!