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Summary: Thought Provoking and Emotional
Review: Guy Montag is a personification of the human spirit. In this story he is given a new insight by a young babbling teenage girl, Clarisse. With this sudden and mysterious revelation, Montag begins to see that the world around him is very synthetic, no can think about what they feel or feel what they are thinking - only the now exists and no concern for actions or consequences. Montag is centered and yet torn between two archetypes, Captain Beatty and Professor Faber. Beatty is an evil and heartless intellectual barbarian, a man possessing an illegal library in his home and claiming to not read a page of it. He is without a doubt a coward hiding behind brute force, whether it be by tongue or kerosene. Then there is Faber, a kind and fearful man who provides sanctuary for Montag. Bradbury puts you behind Montag's eyes and tells the story by letting you experience his life.
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Summary: Turn off the tv
Review: This book pulled me in, and spoke to me. It's chilling how well Bradbury was able to make such an obvious stance, yet still write a beautiful, well rounded novel. This is a book that I hope everyone reads, it makes you a better person. It makes you want to do good in the world. I think Bradbury wants people to ignore things like television, and sit around with one another and talk, debate, discuss. Ironically, this is a book that forces the reader to do just that, perhaps Bradbury's greatest feat. Absolutely timeless novel, 5 stars.
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Summary: Farenheit 451
Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an intelligent story filled with adventure and suspense. It takes you on a journey through the development of Guy Montag, a man who is fed up with a corrupt system. What I like most about this book is the writing style of the author. I find it incredible the way he can capture the way the characters are feeling. For example; "He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water. Himself dark and tiny, in final detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact." Page 7. It's almost as if Bradbury is writing poetry, but it is not to the extent that he is rambling on aimlessly.
The theme of this book is rebellion. The story fallows Guy Montag through his path of change from being part of the system to a leader of a rebellion against it. Slowly but surely, Montag discovered more and more things that aid his transformation into an independent man. I fully agree with Montag's decision to rebel and I Truly look up to him for his bravery in doing what some thought to be impossible. His actions relate closely to my life because I as well, am not the kind of person who is willing to do what I am told to do unless I agree with it and find it worthwhile, so if someone tries to force me to do something against my beliefs, I will fight them to the fullest extent.
I would defiantly recommend this book to anyone out there that is either; looking for a futuristic drama, into sci-fi, or simply just anyone looking for a good read. I recommend this book because at first, it did not look to appealing to me, but after about 45 pages into it I realized that the good characters, interesting story line, and a whole new way to look at the world and government. I know that if you give this book a chance, it will completely change the way you look at such things as limits by the government, literature, and relationships. Fahrenheit 451 is a well-rounded page-turner that pushes the limits of our minds and expands our knowledge of the cruelty of the world around us.
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Summary: Eh... I expected more.
Review: I thought the book was pretty overrated. Admittedly, the concept was interesting and the story rolls around all right, but the superfluous metaphor-laden rambling passages really irked me. I can only sit through so much.
I think I would have liked this book more if I didn't keep picturing Bradbury sitting somewhere with a painfully smug look on his face. But all in all, Fahrenheit 451 is worth reading, though not necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
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Summary: What a Book is.
Review: Everyone seems to think this book is about censorship. I don't really think this is the case. 451 is a book about what books should be about. Books should inspire us to think, to challenge ourselves. The best poetry should make us cry (so, too, should the worst but for other reasons.) Books should make us question our society and it's assumed intrinsic goodness.
John Cheever said, in his Pulitzer acceptance speech, that books, maybe, could prevent nuclear war. Bradbury, too, makes this point in the speeches of the wandering academics Montag meets at the end of 451.
If you're interested in reading a book with a purpose, with a meaning -- a book which strives to show us where we could go and the bad we could do -- read 451 and let yourself question the status quo.
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Summary: It was a pleasure to read
Review: Bradbury does it again! This book parallels the greatness of "Martian Chronicles" in it's imaginative, emotion-harnessing poetry. What's scary is that, unlike "Chronicles", this story could very easily one day become nonfiction. Like "Chronicles", the only writing tactic I didn't like was Bradbury's oversimplistic descend into nuclear war. The entire book, the world is just calmly teetering on the brink, and then the war breaks out as expected. I just thought it was too convenient. And if nuclear war was inevitable, even in a future world of censor-happy utopians, the suburbs would NOT be brewing with such naivete and indifference. But that was one tiny flaw among the pages and pages of beautiful, scary, and addictive writing. I highly recommend.
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Summary: burn, burn, burn
Review: I'm not going to summarize the book. I'm not going to tell you how Guy Montag feels, how his wife feels, how those people on the screens that cover three walls feel. I'm just going to tell you how I feel. And the way I feel is this: awe. Mr. Bradbury wrote this book way back (well, way back for me) in the fifties, I believe, after a series of unsuccessful attempts. He wrote it half a century ago, yet the country depicted in it is strikingly like the US today.
Let me put it this way, in a slightly more historical backround; we were talking about Confucius and the Legalists today in Social Studies, or History, whichever you prefer. The Legalists were like the US in this book. They suppressed opinions that did not agree with their own, they used military force, they even burned books. Only agriculture and medicinal books were allowed to be printed. The way the Legalists ruled ancient China during those fifteen years is like the way the government runs the US. Actually, I started a great discussion with the only other kid who read this, comparing that future world to this ancient one.
But the scariest thing is that it's not really THAT far in the future. They've won two nuclear wars since 2070. The year 2070 is going to be in my lifetime unless I die very early. Freaky. Very, very scary to think of.
The last thing I want to say in this oversized-review is that I absolutely NEVER give five stars. A book has to be really great to get the great "twelve-year-old stamp of approval", as my mommy calls it. I'd recommend it to anyone within the vicinity of my voice...in fact I think I have. (Before homeroom I tend to be a little tired, I mean it is as 7:40 in the morning, and I get "roudy". This means I tell the whole hall in general which books are good, which are bad, and it actually works. Because of my interesting antics I've gotten three fans of this book, and countless others of books for youngerpeople.)
Ray Bradbury, if you are seeing this review, which you may in fact be, I've really got no idea whose looking at this, you have a Fonz' (ever seen Happy Days? I watch reruns on TV Land) quality thumbs up.
"Hey!"
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Summary: This book is....
Review: hot hot hot! hot hot! hot hot! It's on fire!! It is smoking! Whooo!
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Summary: Impossible? Hardly!
Review: Several reviews on here have given Fahrenheit 451 a low score because they thought the premise was too far-fetched. These reviewers aren't aware of the situations that exist in certain theocracies around the world. Afghanistan under the Taliban outlawed television and women were not allowed to read or educate themselves. In several Middle East countries, merely speaking up against the government makes you a target. Bradbury looked at different phenomena in our society- the desire to not offend anyone, the dumbing-down of a society in love with television, etc., and simply extrapolated these until he reached an end very similar to the conditions that existed under the Taliban. Part of the point of science fiction is to be far-fetched, but good science fiction uses those far-fetched ideas to warn us of the dangers of the present, in this case the dangers of censorship, of political correctness, of television, and anyone who thinks those dangers are not real, that this book doesn't have relevant warnings, hasn't studied the real world enough. Everyone should read this book. It's an entertaining and easy read but also has a lot of idealogical depth behind it for those who are willing to think and read at the same time. If you don't want to think about what you read, well, go watch TV and be done with it!
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Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: I read the book Fahrenheit 451 for English class and was not impressed with the way the story was written. In general, the book is about censorship. It is the story of a society where books are outlawed because the lead to conflicting points of view, offend minorities, and cause confusion. Firefighters have the job of finding 'criminals' who are hiding books in thier homes and burn the books.
I found this book to be boring and unexciting. There was very little description and this led me to be confused about several parts of the book. A few of the repeated aspects of the story were never fully described which led me to be unsure of what exactly they were. For example, the seashell radio that Montag's wife Mildred uses. A little more description would have made me understand more clearly, what it did and said. I was also confused about what the 'family' was that Mildred and her friends were constantly watching on the wall. These details of the story made me lose interest in the book. I also think that the reason for banning books was not made extremely clear. More solid reasons should have been given, other than the vague explanations.
Another fact that I found annoying was that houses were fireproofed in this society. That is why firemen as we know them were not needed any longer. Therefore, it seems to me that the firemen in the book should not have been able to burn the houses of the people hiding books.
The most exciting and best part of the book came at the end when Montag had escaped from his old world and was living with intellectuals away from civilization. Montag and his new friends survive an attack during a war and set out to rebuild the world. Although this book ended better than it began, I do not recommend it.
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