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Summary: This Book Is the GREATEST!...
Review: "Fahrenheit 451" was a very good book. The detail was very good. You could just picture the story. My favorite thing about the book was that you had to infer what happened to Clarisse. Was she killed, OR did she go to the railroad. I really think that the author Ray Bradbury is a great author because he puts the best similes in the the right places. For one example of a good simile is on page 3 of the book , "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python sitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..." This talks about the nozzle that Montag uses to light the fires that burns the books. This book is a good book and I would recomend this book to anyone who wants to read it. It is filled with everything you could ask for in a book.
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Summary: Bradbury Battles Conformity ¿ Twice
Review: Sure the story of a nightmare world in which free speech is forbidden, as a parable for the directions our real-life society is going, has been done a million times - both before and after "Fahrenheit 451." So why is Bradbury's book a classic? The key is his superior writing skills and offbeat social subversion. In Bradbury's world, free speech has not been suppressed through a fascist exercise in social control and forced conformity, as in Huxley's similar "Brave New World." Instead, in this book free speech has been eliminated indirectly through what would now be called rampant political correctness. Every single piece of free speech might be offensive to someone somewhere, so all books and entertainment are eliminated so the masses can waste away in feel-good conformity. Ignorance is bliss in this world. This is a groundbreaking concept for a book written way back in the 50's. Bradbury must have been terrified by the PC hordes that broke out 30 or 40 years later. The one major problem with this book is the characters. The protagonist Montag is ultimately narrow and undefined, even though most of the story concerns his inner struggles. The other main characters - Beatty, Faber, and Granger - exist only as longwinded speechifiers for Bradbury's ideas. But the book is saved by the real sense of creeping dread and social agony lurking in the background, all highlighted by Bradbury's intriguing prose and curveball plot techniques.Be sure to read an edition of this book published after around 1980. Prior to that, editors had abridged the book without Bradbury's consent, removing some troubling passages for the sake of helpless schoolkids (or more likely, their holier-than-thou educators). This is the ultimate irony - censorship of a book about censorship! Be on the lookout for an edition containing Bradbury's "Coda" (or epilogue) - a blistering indictment of this issue in which Bradbury essentially tells all opponents to kiss his you-know-what, in a quite scathing way.
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Summary: Censorship of Tomorrow
Review: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
-Juan Ramon Jimenez It is truly amazing how a person, different in any way from his peers, can be so the same. The year is somewhere in the 21st century and Guy Montag is a fireman--whose job it is to set fires instead of putting them out. The government of the time has professed a law which makes reading or merely owning a book illegal and the punishment? The books are burned along with your house and all of your belongings. Censorship and conformity are on an uprise in this world and Guy is right in the center. T That is until Clarisse, a girl who calls herself "17 and crazy", tells him of a past where people were not afraid to be themselves. With the motivation Clariss gives him and the help of Faber, a once upon a time english professor, Guy plans on telling the world the truth about the books the government will not allow them to read. Fahrenheit 451 is a book filled with suspense and multiple plot twist that keep you reading until the very last page.
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Summary: Dark, depressing and incredible
Review: This has become probably my favorite book. The language that Bradbury uses in this novel is odd but very well used. It is like stream of conciousness, flitting from one thing to the next. It works because that's how thoughts (mine at least) tend to run through the mind. I doubt the future described in this book will ever be fully realized, but mindless generations now being raised, that haven't enough imagination for reading, may lead us in that direction. I love this book, I recommend it to anyone who likes to read.
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Summary: This book changed the way I look at all books.
Review: Guy Montag is a fireman who job it is to start fires instead of stoping the. In this backwards world of his he burns books and the houses that they are hidden in. In this future world reading a book is against the law because it gives peoples ideas. Guy never qustioned his job until he actually thinks what it would be like to read a book.....
I never never really thought what our world would be like with no books, but now that I think about it I can't believe how monotonous and boring it would be. Now that I think about it I am glad I dont live in a world like Guy Montag's.
This book has become on of my favorites and I highly recomend you read it!
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Summary: Deep
Review: Imagine a future where books are illegal, and the purpose of firemen isn't to put out fires, but to start them. The main character is one such fireman, his job to burn books(from where the book gets it's title---fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper burns), and doesn't think twice about it. But gradually, he meets people he finds perplexing, a girl who talks about rain tasting like wine, a woman who stays with her books until she is burned alive. His life is transformed when he hides a book, and opens it...
Very engaging, but at times, so deep it makes your head spin.
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Summary: The future isnt as bad as this...
Review: In perhaps the bleakest outlook of what the future would be like, Ray Bradbury tells the world how the thinks the future will be. This is a very bleak book, with wars all to common, firemen burn books, not put out fires, and the world is in a horrible state of turmoil. There are no teachers in schools, children go to schools for days at a time, and parents don't care at all, and an accquaintence to the main charachter had her father arrested for being a pedestrian. Guy Montag (main charachter), a fireman for awhile, realizes something all to true when Clarrise, the accquaintance, asks him a simple question: "Are you happy?" Montag looks at the question as a joke, but soon realized the bleak truth that he is not happy at all, and his wife, Mildred, obviously doesn't even like him at all. After a woman decides to burn with her books with Montag watching, even lighting the match herself, Montag thinks that books must have something true to offer Through all the experiences he has in these events, he begins to read, which in this book is a punishable offense. The books truly do open his life up to newer situations and great works, until one day his boss finds out Montag's secret. In great sense of irony, Ray Bradbury actually made some true predictions, even the microwave oven. Most of this book, however, is inaccurate with the future. Too bad, because other countries sadly do hate us. Wars, however, are far less common than this book has predicted. Other than that, this book is just too real, and recommended to both teenagers and adults.
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Summary: ACK my worst nightmare
Review: Seriously, it is. I could never imagine a world without books. That is like a world without oxygen. Okay maybe not that bad. However, the story line of this book is excellent. It is also fast paced and short. It is the ultimate book on censorship.
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Summary: A very interesting and intriguing book
Review: This book is very intriguing both in what its theme is and also in how much the main character changes throughout the course of the story. It has great discriptions even if they are abstract and also a great development of characters within an action plot. I would have to say that my favorite character in the entire book was Clarisse. She seemed so soft, so fresh, so new, and so likeable, especially compared with some of the other characters in the book. She was so full of life and the joys she could find in it that I really enjoyed her character and I was very sad when she dies. This book always kept me interested with its implications and its deep meanings and because of that it always kept me thinking. I would have to stop for a few minutes to think about what I had just read but that is a good thing and it made me feel like I became more familiar with the book becuase of it. Overall I think that it is a very well written book in every aspect. The main character though not very likeable in the beginning becomes someone you can and want to cheer for as the book progresses. I really enjoyed reading this book and am glad that I did pick this book to read.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is just one of those you must read. The style is very good and it's loaded with phrases and metaphors for you to figure out well into the night. Nevertheless, I loved it and it's one of my favorites.
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