Fahrenheit 451
by:
Ray Bradbury (author)
Story of a society in which all books are to be burned.
Story of a society in which all books are to be burned.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345227614 (0345227611)
Publish date: August 12th 1987
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 107
Edition language: English
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time when I was somewhere between 14 and 16 years old. Back then it didn’t strike me as special and I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about, because I was way too young to understand about passions and convictions you’d stand for with your life...
3 things about this book:1. I had to read it for school but it was already on my radar. I mean: it is a book about books. And it’s also dystopic.2. It is really interesting to think about the society that is shown in this book (and the way it came to be). It makes us think about some choices we make...
“‘Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give th...
I honestly almost gave up on reading this novel as it started off really bizarre to my liking. I kept rereading the same passages over and over again and it just wasn’t making any sense. The language felt weird and what was transpiring, I couldn’t grasp. I felt that this novel jumped right in on the...
The catch-up book club has got me hopping on books I should have read years ago or did read years ago and never really thought about. This seems to be one of two books my high school self just flat-out LIED about reading. I'm horrified. I have no idea why I didn't read this one, though I now complet...
6 years ago
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