This is one of those books that I have known about for quite a while but never got around to reading it until quite recently. In fact it wasn't until I was browsing a bookshop in Sydney that I came across a copy of it, and it didn't take me all that long (in fact it was instantaneous) to add this bo...
I started going to another new book club a few months ago, really liked it, kept going back and this was the most recent read. While it’s a pretty bleak futuristic outlook, I was surprised to find that no-one at the group enjoyed it. The first two-thirds were a bit depressing, but during the last ...
It was a pleasure to burn...the spark notes. This book has reached far beyond my expectations. I sat in my AP Literature class at the end of school and I watched as my teacher passed out a book. My first reaction when I saw that it was Fahrenheit 451 was a solid... NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I was less than th...
In a future United States firemen burn houses and books instead of rescuing people from fire. Told in the third person we follow fireman Guy Montag. Guy feels as if something is adrift in the world he lives in. He knows that learning, books, thoughts are bad. However, after a run-in with a teen neig...
„Fahrenheit 451“ von Ray Bradbury – zur Abwechslung mal eine Dystopie für Erwachsene. Das Buch entstand aus der Kurzgeschichte „The Fire Man“ und wurde 1953 das erste Mal veröffentlicht. Für mich stand schon seit vielen Jahren fest, dass ich das Buch irgendwann einmal lesen würde, weil meine Mutter ...
„Fahrenheit 451“ von Ray Bradbury – zur Abwechslung mal eine Dystopie für Erwachsene. Das Buch entstand aus der Kurzgeschichte „The Fire Man“ und wurde 1953 das erste Mal veröffentlicht. Für mich stand schon seit vielen Jahren fest, dass ich das Buch irgendwann einmal lesen würde, weil meine Mutter ...
If more classics were as engaging as this book was, I would not find reading them boring. Mr. Bradbury had a great balance of intense navel-gazing and action/dialogue. At only 158 pages, this book was completely satisfying the theme and characters. I find Bradbury's future America (or as it was th...
May 27, 2015Book review is up on Word Revel.__________________________________________May 26, 2015Initial thoughts: Given that Fahrenheit 451 is a modern classic, I've inevitably heard a lot of things about the book. And it's these things that weighed on my mind as I read. Censorship and book burnin...
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