Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Fiction - Science Fiction - ISBN: 0246635711, 0307347974, 0345410017, 055208350X, 0743247221, 0007181701

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen ... more
don't put out fires--they start them in order to
burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted  society
holds up the appearance of happiness as the
highest goal--a place where trivial  information
is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire
Captain Beatty explains it this  way, "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."   Guy
Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a
crisis of faith. His wife spends all day  with her
television "family", imploring Montag to work
harder so that they can  afford a fourth TV wall.
Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that
of his next-door  neighbour Clarisse, a young girl
thrilled by the ideas in books, and more
interested in what  she can see in the world
around her than in the mindless chatter of the
tube. When Clarisse  disappears mysteriously,
Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts
hiding books in  his home. Eventually, his wife
turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn
his secret  cache of books. After fleeing to avoid
arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of 
scholars who keep the contents of books in their
heads, waiting for the time society will once 
again need the wisdom of literature.  
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short
stories, novels, plays and poems--including  The
Martian Chroniclesand The Illustrated Man--is the
winner of many  awards, including the Grand Master
Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America.
 Readers aged 13 to 93 will be swept up in the
harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451,  and no
doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans
worldwide. --Neil Roseman
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Review of Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury by Paradis

Advantages: Entertaining
Disadvantages: None

...premise of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. In a world that has gone mad, it centres on the war between censorship and freedom of thought. The protagonist, Guy Montag is the local firefighter, and he lives in an isolated society, where the totalitarian Government have tried to control independent thinking, by banning books. The Government believe that people should be happy and carefree, and that books have a bad effect on them, by giving them ideas. ...
...assorted books, poems and plays. Fahrenheit 451 was originally published in 1950 as a short story, and was entitled, 'The Fireman'. It tells a cautionary tale of people so wrapped up in their wall to wall TV's, that they don't notice or care about issues happening for real, like poverty and warfare. None of 'that sort of thing' matters to these TV junkies, who just want more and more trivial, meaningless things to watch, in their perfect little cocoon ... Read review

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02.11.2004
Books don't say anything...
Review of Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury by Toffou

Advantages: Please read the op
Disadvantages: Really, read the op, but there isn't any disadvantage

...by all... WHAT IS FAHRENHEIT 451 ? *** SUMMARY: Before talking about the book, I will just explain the title. Actually 451°F is the temperature when paper begins to burn. Why the title ? Read my little summary. In an unfortunately too-near future (no date is given by Bradbury, that avoids the problems of Orwell's "1984" for example), a fireman named Guy Montag is happy to do his job. The only hitch is that Bradbury's firemen don't fight against ...
...they don't have to extinguish the fires, but on the contrary their jobs consist in burning all the books they hear about. Montag is married with Mildred (does her name mean that she can't take a decision all by herself ?), a woman who spends her time watching television walls. Two events will change his life forever. First, Guy meets Clarisse, a 17-year girl full of life. She doesn't go to school as the other teenagers. Instead, she loves wandering ... Read review

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12.09.2001
Fire Starter
Review of Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury by Azurel

Advantages: Good plot with interesting ideas behind it
Disadvantages: The story has a sad, hopeless feel to it.

Fahrenheit 451 is a look into a future where books are condemned as dangerous and are therefore burnt. Montag is the central character in the book and is a fireman, but not in the sense we understand. Montag is paid to burn books not to stop fires, there is no need to stop house fires now anyway as all houses are fireproof. Even after you have finished reading the book, Bradbury's horrifying version of the future hovers in the mind, to be contemplated ...
...end Montag has lost his family and has to face the idea that the job he has been doing all his life was destroying the only thing he now lives for. Fahrenheit 451 is an interesting book, as much for the ideas behind it, as the story its self. ... Read review

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10.04.2002
I'm surprised no one else has written an opinion
Review of Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury by kenigma

Advantages: Great plot
Disadvantages: none

Farenheit 451 is one of the seminal books on state censorship and the creation of an artificial utopia. It ranks alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. Farenheit 451 is about Guy Montag, a fireman - but not in any conventional sense of the word. In this bleak future, firemen are employed not to put out fires (all the houses are now fire-proof), but instead to start fires... to burn books. Books are evil. They spread malcontentment. ...
...- people can be spoon fed their opinions, their emotions. Pleasure is immediate, thought is a waste of time. When Montag starts to find that he wants to read books he is scared. He is scared about the mechanical hound that will chase him down. He is scared that his boss Captain Beatty will come around and burn his house like he has done to others. It is a parable of state domination and the ultimate in censorship, and is a warning to us all about ... Read review

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21.02.2001
Burn baby burn (again!)
Review of Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury by theblackstar

Advantages: An absolute classic and comment on the world today.
Disadvantages: None

...and in particular that book. Fahrenheit 451, is a book about books, a book about the burning of books. But behind it there is much more than that, as I saw in the book when I re-read it as an adult, and was even more blown away by it than when I first read it as a child. A story full of social commentary about modern society, a prediction of a future in which we now live. Up there with 1984 and Brave New World this is a book that predicted our world ...
...at which book paper burns, and in the story Montag the central character is fireman whose job it is to burn books. This is a world were all reading material is banned, and free thinking is against the will of the state. People are kept in line with state supplied drugs and huge screen TV’s in their homes (sound familiar yet?!) There is also the Hound, the robotic sniff dog that hunts down books and their owners. The Hound symbolises the world around ... Read review

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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

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Type: Fiction

Genre: Science Fiction

Title: Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

ISBN: 0007181701; 0246635711; 0307347974; 0345410017; 055208350X; 0743247221

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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

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