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Summary: takes a wrong turn
Review: fahrenheit 451 starts off well, but definately doesnt end that way. besides the fact the some characters seem unreal and are impossible to relate to, at one point in the book montag and his friend have an incredibly insightful talk and end it in an idiotic plan, but i won't go into that too much. the end is boring and close to impossible to get through. read it, but be prepared.
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Summary: One of the greatest of all time
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. It's a really amazing story of how the world could be one day if we are all corrupted by the government
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Summary: The book of Irony
Review: In this book i found it very interesting how the book just progresses through every thing in an instant im a matter of a snap of the fingers and nothing else in the story matters but Guy Montag himself. For example there would be a girl and she would just com into play but then the auther just kills her off and the ending i found was just a stop to leave you wonder what would happen if the auther finished it off. Overall this book was very good as the story goes on you get into it and why write a book about burnning books? :)
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451 Review
Review: I liked the book Fahrenheit 451. This book takes place in a futuristic American city. In the book, the main character, Guy Montag, works for a fire station. But instead of putting out fires, they start them. The book is about this group of firemen who find people that own books, go to their house, and burn them. Guys wife, Mildred, is a completely opposite character. She is a woman with absolutly no life at all, she prefers to watch tv in their parlor room all day, and listen to the radio in her "seeshell radio", that is attached to her ear. Mildred seems to be a completely empty person, and doesnt even realize it when she tries to commit suicide. Beatty, Montags fire chief, is the leader of this group that burn books. As he notices that Guy is starting to realize what books have to offer, Beatty gets more and more curious as to what Guy is really doing on his days off. These two turn out to be enemies towards the end of the book, because of Guys new love of books. In the beginning of the book, Guy meets a seventeen year old girl, named Clarise. Clarise is a different kind of girl for her age in this society. She is more in touch with herself and nature and the people around her. Everyone in this society is completely opposite of that, and consider Clarise an outsider. A few days after Guy meets Clarise, she is killed by a speeding car. When Guys love for books exceeds his passion to burn them, Guy sees an old english professor for help. When Beatty finds out what Guy is up to, he sends the fire department to Guys house. Beatty forces Guy to burn his own house down because of having the books, then places Guy under arrest. Guy takes the flamethrower and burns Beatty to ashes, and knocks out the rest of the members of the fire department. His last obsticle is the Mechanical Hound, which is a machine set to find people that have escaped from the police and fire department. Before Beatty was killed, he had set the hound to find Guy. After Guy is done with the fire department, the Hound finds Guy. The Hound leaps at Guy and injects anesthetic into Guys leg, to get him to stop running. Guy manages to burn the hound and get away. Guy meets a group of people like himself, runaways from the city who enjoy books. The point of this book I think is a possibility of what computers might do to civilization. With the ever expanding computer technololgy we have, books are starting to phase themselves out. They portrayed this in the book by saying that books were written to offend people and had to be rid of. This was a good yet different interpretation of what the future of our society can become.
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Ray Bradbury combines controversy with a touch of suspense in his novel Fahrenheit 451. In the future where "firemen" burn books and the houses they are in, the conflict between rescuing the past and burning it comes to life. Guy Montag, a "fireman," struggles with his everyday life of burning books, and the life that the next-door neighbor, seventeen-year-old Clarisse, introduces into his mind. Captain Beatty, the fire chief, tries to convince Montag that the life of burning books is the only way to go, that is until Montag meets another "book saver", a retired college professor, who helps him decide what is right. Bradbury's conflicts between wrong and right are those that have been handed down over generations and will be for generations to come. Morals take over in this battle of instinct and actuality, as Montag joins a group to try and save the books of the world. From adventurous chases to confidential meetings, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
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Summary: Boring, boring, boring
Review: I struggled through this book. If I hadn't had to read it for school, I would have dropped it immediately. The story is dark and unhappy, and the writing style is so flat and boring. It seems as though the author is trying to use big flowery words and stuff, but it doesn't work at all. This is a horrible book.
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Summary: The Moral Behind Fahrenheit 451
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is a great book about the world in the future. This book really made me think about how the world would really be. Will there ever be a time when books will not be allowed? Will there ever be a time when people do not care for other people, or for the small things in life? This is a great book to read and it really makes you think.
Fahrenheit 451 is about a time when books are banned from the world. Anyone with books will get their house burned down by the fire department. The cars are really fast and everyone cares only about themselves. Montag, the main character in the book, is on the fire department. He likes to burn books, until he reads a few. Then he starts to like the books and decides he wants to bring books back into the world. Will he succeed?
Fahrenheit 451 is an excellent book to read. It also has a good story line and a moral that is outstanding.
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Summary: Ironic book on Firefighters
Review: The was a fun little futuristic book on society and the fear that someone may learn something different then the government's message by reading. It tells a story of two lonely people who are caught up in their own lifes but learn about a whole new world by reading. The premise of the story of Firefighter who burn down building of people who don't follow the government is ironic. The story in interesting and tender in parts. The only problem with this book is the usual ending that all these types of books have with the two characters escaping and the rest of the world, well you know if you have read it.
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Summary: Classic SF tale--anti-censorship and also anti-war
Review: Fireman Guy Montag is happy with his work--burning books--until he runs into a teenaged neighbor who really talks to him, questions him, and starts his mind working in directions that don't feel comfortable and that lead him to question his entire existance. In Ray Bradbury's futuristic dystopia, books are illegal and wall-sized television sets, constantly babeling and even allowing user interactivity, rule the world. But, as we learn from the story, this isn't the result of harsh government sanctions, but of popular consensus only supported by the government when books were already almost extinct. Author Ray Bradbury is a powerful and effective writer. His use of the language adds color to a straightforward, if fascinating plot about a man's struggle to come to terms with himself in a world where comfort and 'happiness' are deemed more important than questioning and thought. Like George Orwell's 1984, FAHRENHEIT 451 survives because of its eternal message, its strong writing, and its insights into the future--a future that Bradbury might recognize as something similar to our own present. In an era where book reading declines each year, and where a greater and greater percentage of those books sold are best-sellers by a few favorite writers, Bradbury's message is certainly worth another look. Two characters make this novel--Guy Montag, with his doubts but also his hopes for the future, and fire chief Captain Beatty. Beatty knows the truth, knows more about books than Montag or even most intellectuals, and is willing to argue against them--but does so using arguments from the books themselves. Beatty's arguments are subtle and definitely worth stopping and thinking about--only if we are willing to pay Beatty's price can intellectual freedom survive and Beatty is right--few are really willing to pay. Although most reviewers focus on the book burning and anti-intellectualism that Bradbury describes in FAHRENHEIT 451, there is also a strong anti-war message that runs through this novel and much of Bradbury's early work. As in our own era, wars are expected to be easy and cheap, at least for the Americans. Bradbury argues that expectations don't always make the truth.
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Summary: A Prophetic Novel of Censorship
Review: Guy Montag is a firefighter who burns things. Specifically books, and the houses they are found in. He lives in a state where books, and possesion of them, is illegal. Guy enjoys his job until the day he meets Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse makes Guy doubt his motives and he soon becomes daring enough to break the law and read a book. He finds he loves litereature, he keeps steals books from the houses he's burning and reads them at home. He finally goes as far as to skip work one day, and his Fire Department Captain, Captain Beatty, shows up at his home. He tells Montag that it's normal for a Fireman to go through such doubts at a stage in his life. Then proceeds to go through a long monologue as to the history of banning books. According to him, special interest groups objected to books that criticized, belittled, or undermined their causes. For this reason, books became more and more neutral in order to avoid offending anyone. However, this still wasn't enough. So society agreed to outlaw books. Montag is not convinced and begins to plot with a professor he had previously met named Faber. They plan on planting books in the houses of Firemen as a way of discrediting the profession and destroying the governments unit for censorship. However, thing go when the alarm sounds at the firestation and Montag goes to the last house he'll burn in is career, his house. Unlike its fellow dystopia-themed predecessor, 1984, much of Fahrenheit 451's depiction of modern society came true almost prophetically. Although not outlawed, literature now holds a narrow audience. And the brainwashing televisions Ray Bradbury depicts aren't far off of today's one-eyed-boxes. Ray Bradbury's adjectival descriptions in this book are strong, even at times; on occasion, one could even say they became monotonous. However, the books never crawls forward for to long; the progress, although not quick, still moves fast enough to keep the reader's attention. Overall a strong novel censorship. Although not perfectI would recommend Fahrenheit 451 to any reader interested in either mere science-fiction, or one actually interested in a political criticism of censorship. Both will find their time well spent, the latter will definitely get more out of it, as for the previous. . .
Maybe you would enjoy Star Wars??
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