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Summary: Taking a Step into the Future
Review: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most important and influential books of all time. In 1950, when it was written he didn't know he was going to predict today's society. Guy Montag, the protagonist, loved his work. There seemed to be nothing that he liked better than to spray kerosene on a pile of books and watch the pages curl and turn into ash. Until, one day he meets Clarisse, a 17-year-old girl who has been educated about the world. At one point in one of their conversation she asks if he is happy. Montag realizes that people should have the right to read books. He finds that books mean a lot to people when a woman chooses to burn herself with her books. Guy comes up with a plan to get revenge on other firemen in an effort to stop book banning.
Montag's boss, Beatty tries to reason with Montag about the banishment of books saying "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs. Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy (61)." The people of Montag's society live under such a principle, even though at some times they may not know it.
The turning point in the novel is when his wife, Mildred discovers what he is doing. She becomes scared. Eventually, she turns him in, and he is forced to burn his collection of books. This is the climax of the book because the reader is unsure what lies ahead. The adrenaline of the reader is at its highest, and ones mind is trying to think of all the possible outcomes.
The censorship that is in Bradbury's novel comes from an inferior dictatorship. It is a culture that does not want its citizens to be lured into the meanings of books. Today, our culture is bombarded with advertisements. Everyday it seems as though we have less time to ourselves. Today we are not burning books and bookstores are popular, but we still seem to ban books for one reason or another. Fifty years later the book still remains relevant to our society.
Fahrenheit 451 is a brilliant novel. In my opinion, it is as meaningful perhaps even more so than it was when it was written in 1950. The novel shows what censorship can do to a society, and the importance of free speech. People must learn to accept different views, whether they agree totally or not. We must always be open to new opportunities that arise and never except the norm. Everyone should read Fahrenheit 451, take what they learn from it and apply it to their everyday lives. Overall, I think that the novel has a good message and I am glad that I spent my time reading it.
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Summary: Timeless Appeal
Review: I read Fahrenheit 451 years ago in highschool, and just reread it last month. It was the feature book in our town's One Book, One City program. What I found was that F451 doesn't lose it's impact all these years later. The ideas of censorship, of book burning, of reading in general come sharply into focus as the reader experiences Montag's journey.
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Summary: Fahrenheit_451
Review: I'm a highschool freshmen and I read the book last year when was in 8th grade. I loved it! It makes a very eerie reflection of what we are and what we are becoming. It's about censorship and civil disobedience. Farhrenhiet 451 is a must read for young and old a like. If you haven't read it you're really missing something.
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Summary: Unavailable editon - are you kidding???
Review: The Amazon.com editorial review ends: "...and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title."How appropriate. Maybe this editon of the book has been BURNED!?!?!?!?!?!?????
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Summary: Dramatic, Powerful and well written
Review: If it's written by Bradbury, its got to be good. He is one of the best science-fiction authors, and Fahrenheit 451 is no exception. It is dramatic, with broken bonds, chase scenes, and runs with the law. The ultimate ending is powerful and strong and creates a great ending for a great book.
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Summary: seeing into the future
Review: This was a great book. It is very thought provoking and powerful. The future world he proposed gets more likely every year. It's message gets more important. Even if you don't like sci-fi or Ray Bradbury, this book is worth it just for the insights he makes.
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Summary: The future is now
Review: What a treat to re-read this book with the added bonus of the Coda at the end and the Conversation with Ray Bradbury. In my memory 451 was about book burning, but it is actually about the death of thinking and conversation and culture. Anyone who watches TV today knows we are certainly headed in that direction with the dumbed down shows and news casts. We are certainly not supposed to question authority. Our library checkouts and bookstore purchases can be monitored for daring to read outside the boundries of correctness. Dare to read this book and think about what Ray Bradbury foretold.
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Summary: book, book, book
Review: throughout the novel, you are exposed to many different thingS comparing to our world to this books words. the main character Guy is a firemen and his job in this world is to burn books that they find among the people. This book repersents the amount of learning that the people will be doing in the future of our county it tv will keep going as it is. the book is a good book it has the posibility of telling people what we will come to if we stop reading. There are factors that leading to the general lack of interest in reading and factors that make people actively hostile toward books. Nature is presented as a force of innocence and truth with one of the characters.Blood appears throughout the novel as a symbol of a human being's repressed soul or primal, instinctive self. Montag often feels his most revolutionary thoughts welling and circulating in his blood. thsi book kept me interested un till the end because you did not know what crazy thing was goin to go on next.
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Summary: Fahrenheit %0ZERO0%
Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
I didnt really like this book, it was all just people rambling on and on about how there life sucks, the whole worlds sucks, and burn books. I dont know how you could enjoy this book. People just talk to talk in this book. Its about a guy named montage that is a firefighter. He burns things instaed of putting fires out. He meets a wierdo girl who talks nonsense, this guy starts to think what hes doing starts reading books and gets caught. He then has to burn his books. He doesnt want to go to jail so he Runs away.
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Summary: A Frightening View of Our Future
Review: Reading FAHRENHEIT 451 is like going to another universe. Once you read such an awkward book by the master author of science fiction, Ray Bradbury, youre' bound to be memerized by the proceedings. This slightly short book sometimes made me ill at ease, or uncomfortable, because the book is self-conscious in a way. Bradbury's book is almost a conspiracy theory in many accounts, because it deals with the banning of books in an almost non-existent world. The basic premise is that reading a book in this "world" is against the law, where the penalties are hugely severe. The heroes, or anti-heroes in my book, are the fireman. Instead of their priorties of saving human lives, the fireman are hired basically to burn books. When a unhappily married fireman named Guy Montag questions the burning of books, his view becomes to deepen more and more. He soons to appearicate books, yet his wife and collegues soon mark him as a lawbreaker. Montag soon becomes a fugitive, and details his found use of books toward other intelligent minds who also are fond of books as well. I love Bradbury's interesting vision of the world his book. His beliefs in the future world are almost uncanny to today. But his future world is frightening and paranoid as well. I read the book twice, and I have become found of the characters and terrific and knowlegeable storyline. Yet, I feel FAHRENHEIT 451 should be taken not so lightly. The theme of this book feels so close to home, I feel like Bradbury's "world" might become our society in the years to come.
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