Rating: 
Summary: Haven't read it, but sounds good!
Review: The only reason I'm giving this 4 stars is becauseI haven't read the book yet, but I'm going to very soon. from what I hear, this sounds like a great book. The main reason wanted to check it out was because the book was banned in schools and I was curious to find out what all the fuss was about. I make it a habit to read every school banned book I can. Ironically I found out the book was ABOUT censorship, talk about life imitating art!
Rating:
Summary: the soul of a firemen
Review: I am a student at a high school and I finished reading "Farenheit 451" in a week and a half. I was very much impressed by the story and how it gets better after the introduction I thought it would be boring book about a firemen but it's a story that takes turns all around. The characters are all taken very much into mind. He gives them all unique personalities, although it's a short story, each chapter is like a bio on one of the many characters.
Rating: 
Summary: Fahrenheit 451
Review: Fahrenheit 451 is a very good story about a struggling public servant who is deeply confused by the twisted world that surrounds him. As a fireman in this backwards society, he is expected to burn books and the houses that contain them, but can no longer bring himself to do it as he once did. Books are outlawed and burned because they are the source of much confusion and varying points of view. The government could not bear it any longer, so it opted to simply destroy the books. Firemen are now employed to start fires instead of stopping them. The main character is Guy Montag, along with his wife Mildred and Fire Captain Beatty. Montag tries very hard to beat the system by hiding and reading books, but cannot contain his frustration. He is found out and flees to save his life.
Guy Montag is my favorite character in this book. He goes through many changes and has quite an adventure. In the end, in order to escape and be free, he has to defeat his boss and kill the deadly Mechanical Hound, which is a machine used to track down fugitives.
Fahrenheit 451 is also a story about the contradictory principle of censorship. Ray Bradbury shows what the effects of censorship are mental unrest and dissatisfaction with the quality of life. He writes about it hoping to get the attention and open the reader's eyes to face this evident threat that is in fact a reality.
I can, in some way, relate to Montag. He was different from most people and managed to beat the system in the end. Although I have never killed any one or burned down houses like he did, but I do share the same spirit of dissatisfaction with the rules of society. There are many things wrong with this world that I am not happy with. Much of my unhappiness is towards hypocrisy. For example, how can the government mandate that an 18 year old male go and die for the US, yet he cannot be declared financially independent until he is 24? Or how can this same 18 year old male cast a vote to put a man into office and elect a president, but he cannot have a drop of alcohol until he is 21? Like Montag, I also struggle with society's rules and points of view. We may differ in cause, but the spirit is the same.
I enjoyed reading this book. Mr. Bradbury knows how to tell a good story. I especially liked the climax, which was, of course, the best part of the book. The only thing that I do not like, perhaps due to my impatience, are the long and wordy monologues. But then again, these are essential to the storyline of the book. This is how Bradbury is able to explain confusing parts in the story. He uses them as a movie would use flashbacks. If it were up to me, I would just put a little more action in these parts.
Of course, as would almost all readers of this story, I highly recommend this book. Students from grade level 9 and up will be able to truly appreciate it. Perhaps the misfits and outcasts in this society will enjoy it more, but in all, this is a good book for every one. Fahrenheit 451 will fit well in any literary collection, be it political or sci-fi or both.
Rating:
Summary: one of the best
Review: This is one of my favorite books. It's a great tale about utopia, censorship, and decline of our collective culture into a mass of visual goo. It's Bradbury at his best. He kind of cheats a little with the ending, but the overall quality and message of the book makes it one of the finest pieces of literature out there.
Rating: 
Summary: All books begin with a premise...
Review: ... and this one also ended there. Compared to Orwell's 1984 and similar works, this novel is teen romance. It light-heartedly bounds through what it likes to think is a dark future. With all respect to the esteemed Mr. Bradbury, it reads more like Futurama.
Aldous Huxley and George Orwell both cover this subject in much greater detail and provide a deeper sense of the darkness of our future. The themes of ignorance, gleeful mass-media mesmerism and inner conflict are better represented in their works.
If you understand doublespeak, give this one a miss. It's double-plus-ungood.
Rating:
Summary: A very thought provoking book!
Review: The novel Fahrenheit 451 tells us about a time in the future in which books are illegal to read or posses, and firemen aren't employed to save houses (because they are virtually fire resistant), but to burn books. Guy Montag, a fireman, and the story's main character, enjoys the destruction and burning of the books and he is constantly soaked in the smell of kerosene. Montag had a weird feeling about things, but wasn't quite sure what it was. He was like all the other people, in that he would just keep going ahead to where he was going, not looking at what he was walking past or paying much attention to things. Except one night he stopped and met a girl who told him of the past where people were allowed to think, to read, and to have original ideas for themselves, and the ability to write them down and share them with others. As the story goes on, it deals with his drug-abusing wife and her weird friends. Also there are crews of people that are out to save people that try to committee suicide due to the high suicide rate. The reader discovers the ways that the society works, about how people are not unique, not knowing their own neighbors, and how the television thinks for everyone so that they don't have to. This book shows a future where it is nearly impossible to be a freethinking individual. Ray Bradbury's descriptive writing makes the story easy to read and hard to put down. The story thickens, twists, and curves with every page as Montag is forced to go on the run from a mechanical hound whose only mission is to destroy Montag. It is a book that everyone should try to read. It really makes the reader think about how our future may turn out like this someday.
Rating:
Summary: Fahrenheit 451 is a great book
Review: Fahrenheit 451 was an incredible science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury. I have not been a fan of science fiction in the past, so i was suprised that I enjoyed this book so much. It was such a great book, that I didn't want to put it down. Thier is never a down time in the book where it is dragged out. It is exciting all the way through. Not only is it an enjoyable book, but it has a great message at the end. Fahrenheit 451 has opened me up to science fiction novel.
Rating:
Summary: I HATE THE IDEA OF NO BOOKS!
Review: "Fahrenheit 451" is about a future where there is no freedom of speech. A future where every person is a mindless automaton with no feeling. They go about their life wondering whats going to be on the screen next or what they're going to eat for dinner. Worst of all it is a future where there are no books. It is a future where firemen don't douse fires, it is a future where they start them. Their job is to rid the earth of books by burning them. Montag is a firefighter who is questioning what he is doing. Lately he has been stealing books from the secret libraries he burns for a living. He finally realizes that without books people are mindless automatons who's only purpose in life is not to think. This is a great book and it makes you think of what life would be like if our only purpose in life was to be happy. We wouldn't be able to think for ourselves, just like the characters in the book. I give "Fahrenheit 451" five big stars.
Rating:
Summary: What if it came to this?
Review: Fahrenheit 451 takes a look into a world that is overloaded with censorship, has a lack of knowledge, and is full of ignorance. I was quickly captivated to read the book after the first chapter when I learned the main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who's job is to burn books. This makes the novel begin with a very unique twist since the world is accustomed to firefighters putting out fires instead of starting them. Bradbury takes us though Guy's experiences that change his opinion of book burning. Starting with his encounter with a young girl named Clarisse McClellan, Montag is intrigued with her love of people, nature, and her stories of people who were not afraid of books. She causes Guy to see how dissatisified he is with his life. I feel for Montag as he goes through several disturbing events (his wife attempts suicide, an old woman chooses to burn with her books in her house, and Clarisse was hit by a car) and I understand why his eyes are opened to the bland life he has because of how censored the world has become. I would feel the same too, if I lived in a superficial world were everything is based on fast cars, TV, and radio and didn't include time by yourself, time to enjoy nature, independent thinking, books, and meaningful conversations. Nothing would be left in the world. That's why this book almost frightens me because it shows where censorship can lead to. What if our society just decided to get rid of free thinking to stop conflicting opinions? This novel makes you respect freedom after you begin to wonder if world could one day become like Montag's. At least there was hope for Guy as made friends with a retired English professor (Faber) and decides that Faber can help him understand the books that he hid away from his own fires. The most emotional moment was late in the novel when the fire station gets a call. Montag realizes it's his own house and his wife turned him in. It's sickening how everyone turns against him because he wants to gain knowledge about the old world. This lead to an intense chase that makes you almost want to cheer outloud for Guy as he escapes the Mechanical Hound, Beatty, and other firemen. The final chapter left me somewhat satisfied. It's vagueness at the end makes me yearn for a sequel. That's about the only problem I had with the book. Overall, I recommend this to anyone who has an open mind and loves sci-fi.
Rating: 
Summary: 451 For a Different Reason
Review: Now, don't get me wrong: I thought 'Fahrenheit 451' was a pretty good book, but I was very unimpressed by the number of mistakes found in the 165 pages. The name Montag was spelled wrong on several occasions, there are words oftentimes missing from dialogue--or the wrong ones all together--and quotes either missing or in the wrong places, making it oftentimes confusing to read. Editing was either skipped altogether or done by a blind man...one of the two. Overall, though, 'Fahrenheit 451' is an average book. I did not feel connected with any of the characters, and could've cared less what happened to Montag. Clarisse disappeared too early without much reason as to why--I assumed her being hit by a car was false, but apparently not--and the future looks bland to me. Luckily, though, I won't be around to see it. (Also, the "war" seemed tacked on without any real reason as to its existence in the story, save for maybe wiping out the human race so we could start over.) Not a great book. I'm hoping Bradbury has written by stories than this apparent "classic".
|
