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Summary: Vibrant, but somewhat confusing............
Review: A good book with a gripping plot and dynamic descriptions, but confusing in the begining. When I began to read the book, I had no clue what was going on. It took me a couple of days to read this book since it was so (as I mentioned before) gripping.
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Summary: Very good book worth reading
Review: This book although one of the worst distopian books was good in that it was for a childs view. Some of the characters showed extreme likeness to modern society and the theme was very well developed. many very good literature components in this work.
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Summary: Good book, but easy to put down!
Review: I had to read this book for my 8th grade reading class. I'm not much of a reader, in fact I don't read at all unless I have to. I thought this was a good book, but could have been better without all the elaboration. Every little thing that he talked about whether it was the firehouse or the match he described it to the nth degree. Overall I thought it was a fairly good book.
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Summary: Just a couple little notes...
Review: First, I wonder about the credibility of the publisher's notes when she couldn't spell the title of the book correctly. (I realize it's not exactly an easy word, but still!)Second, a small point: Clarisse McClellan never reached the age of 17. (One of the editors wrote about the 17-year-old girl.) The book is a worthwhile read. I'm not big on science fiction, but Fahrenheit 451 sends a strong political message about censorship and forecasts (forecasted) the future eerily well. It's very scary in its predictions.
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Summary: The more I think about it, the more I like it
Review: I had to read this book for summer reading, and I didn't really like it. But once I finished it, I thought about it, and I realized how much I liked it. This book is so futuristic, yet so easy to understand. Things like Beatty's monolouges, the mechanical dogs, and Clarrise all made this book one great read. If you can read, read this. It'll give you one lasting impression....and you'll be grateful for books that much more.
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Summary: WOOOWWW! I'm impressed with this book!
Review: This book was your average school assigned novel. NOOOOTTTTT! It was jam-packed with humor, drama, horror, and action. Guy Montag, the protagonist, turns upon his profession as a fireman. Firemen in the future burn books and the houses that contain them. IF YOU DON'T READ THIS BOOK, I'M GOING TO GET YOU! HA HA HA HAAA!
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Summary: Strange and disturbing
Review: A cynical, yet prophetic view of the world as it is today. The upside-down trick (making fire instead of extinguishing it) has been used to great effect before ('freedom is slavery') and perhaps better. Still, this book is worth the read, if only for the moral warning to society it contains.
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Summary: An interesting novel
Review: The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was a good yet weird book. The author tells of a story of a man who finds that what he once thought to be true and right was wrong. The story then takes you through some strange events while you meet different characters. Although the book was sometimes random, it was a fun and exciting book. The book was good, it really seemed to relate to the world we live in and the everyday choices we make.
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Summary: A brilliant, visionary book
Review: It's hard to describe what a powerful charge this slender little book carries. You read it and wonder how Bradbury was able to make a prediction so spot-on accurate way back in the 1950s when he wrote this. There are scenes and lines that are etched in my mind permanently: the Mechanical Hound and its procaine snout; Mildred crying when Montag reads "Dover Beach" to her but not understanding why; Beatty's chilly monologues on sedating the masses by stuffing them with useless facts; 17-year-old Clarisse tasting the rain on her tongue. I once read a book on meditation that described ideas as having sound, structure and weight. The ideas in Farenheit 451 seem to have those properties, so vividly does Bradbury present them.
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Summary: Almost up to Orwell and Huxley
Review: this book was almost as good as Brave New World and 1984, but I determined that this was not quite up to the standard that these respected authors set. i am not degrading this book at all. it presented some very valid arguments, such as the degradation of the human mind through the removal of books, and thus, most of the conscious, independant thoughts. Also realistically presented was the cause of the forced demise of books, through minorities. i am personally very apprehensive of various minority groups compaining about anything that is not what they desire to hear. i personally support equal rights, but many of today's minorities seem to think that equality is not reached until their rights surpass those of everyone else. if any "questionable" material is released that disagrees with their views, the government must do something to maintain that minority's felicity. for more on this topic, i suggest reading Bradbury's "Coda". however, it remains somewhat inferior to Huxley and Orwell's dystopias because of the tendency of the book to remain at times too superficial. I understand that the author only spent about a week on the novel, so it is understandable that it would rank in just below these paramount paradigms of the dystopic future of mankind. the massive, forlorn, wretched world of hate created by Orwell is just more in-depth and depicts more intense scenes of the injustices that humans face. Huxley's world, as well, allows for the reader to get more acquainted with the main characters, and thus the readers are more shocked when Winston is torn apart emotionally by the man he once thought he could trust as a fellow usurper of the power of Big Brother. if only Bradbury had gone in-depth, such more could have been reached by the book. however, it remains a classic nonetheless, for the accurate prophecies portrayed and the fears of dehumanization and antidisestablishmentarianism.
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