Fahrenheit 451

Paperback, 227 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2018 by Harper Voyager.

ISBN:
9780008303693
OCLC Number:
1026191416

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4 stars (259 reviews)

More than sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature. Today its message is more relevant than ever before. Now an HBO original film starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of all commodities, the printed book, along with the homes in which they are hidden. Montag never questions his orders to destroy and to ruin, returning each day to his bland life and to his wife, Mildred, who is content to spend all day with her television 'family'.

But then Montag meets Clarisse, who shows him a past where people didn't live in fear and a present where the world can be seen through ideas in books and not just the screen of a television, and begins to question everything he has ever known. …

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Review of 'Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

While Fahrenheit 451 is a good book that has interesting parts, I feel as if it's more like a sketch than a complete book. This might come from me not having read fiction in a while and the book being 70 years old, but I couldn't get the sense that this was a literary work on the same level as other books I've read.

However, I still found this to be a good book. As someone who's interested in philosophy and social sciences, I was very intrigued by the topic of this book and it's dystopian nature. It has undoubtedly made me reflect more on how society works, how information in society works and how reading (in my opinion) makes us better people.

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Una novela infantiloide. Y no me refiero a los personajes, que viven en un sistema que los quiere idiotizados, me refiero a la forma en la que está escrita, parece un libro dirigido a niños o a gente de derecha (que ya sabemos que no le da la cabeza para mucho). Si quieres una buena distopía: 1984.

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

It must be close on 25 years ago that I first heard about this book, and now finally I can tick it off the list. Surprisingly also, this is the first time I've read anything by Bradbury, even though I have a number of his works on my shelves.

The book is such a classic, that I'd be surprised if people don't know the general premise, and of course in that sense there wasn't too much wow factor or plot twists that one uncovers here. With that said, it is wonderfully written. The clarity of the landscape the characters see themselves in is simple and clear to the reader. Depressing, vapid and shallow as one continues through the story as it becomes more and more fatalist.

Such a simple phrase, such a beautiful phrase, as Montag meets the group by the fire at the end:
"... and Time was there." …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I have many thoughts about this book but recognizing that I'm unlikely to take the time to get them all coherently stated here, I'm going to opt for a few bullet points instead.

● People seem to like arguing about whether this is a book about the dangers of technology or the dangers of censorship. I think it's somewhat both, sure, but more about the dangers of being content to engage only with things that make us feel good.


● I say it's only sort of about censorship because, as Faber argues, "Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line. So few want to be rebels anymore. [...] …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

How can I write a review for Fahrenheit 451, a book which has meant so much to me? How can I say some brilliant thing which will exhort you to read it? Reread it? May I tell you that I have extra copies of this book so that I may lend or give them should I find someone who has not read it but is willing to? Can I relate in a brief sentence the dream I had in which I read this book in response to a society no longer reading any book which lasted longer than a page?
I have been inspired and struck with urgency in every rereading of Fahrenheit 451. I see in the dystopian society of Ray Bradbury's envisioning a dreadful shadow of my own generation, and it frightens me, so I read the book again and it gives me hope to counter …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I have now read 1984, brave new world and Fahrenheit 451 and all three books were very good in their own way. Fahrenheit like 1984 is pretty violent and oppressive, but on a smaller scale, in this book the story is focused on a few different characters in a small area.

I found it quite hard to get into the story as it takes a long time for things to be explained, once I was brought up to date I enjoyed the story.

The writing style is very interesting, it almost has a jazz free-flow style to it which makes you actually start reading faster and faster, I really enjoyed these bits as it makes things feel chaotic. Here is an example of what I mean...

"One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablets, men, disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush"

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I finished this book back in August of 1996. The story was beautifully written and its message was absolutely terrifying. The protagonist lived in a world where people were not allowed to read books because their ideas caused too much confusion. I curled up in my bed that night and thanked whatever deity I was worshiping at that time that it was just a story.

I re-read it for a book club and I am now convinced that Ray Bradbury was quite the prescient mother****er. Don't worry about the book burning...I refuse to believe that will ever happen. Besides, like Dr. Faber says, the books are not the important thing - it's the ideas they represent. But read his description of how people live: everyone's got these "seashells" (like ear buds) in their ears at night so there's constant music and noise, everyone's walls are covered in giant televisions that …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Well this book was somewhat of a disappointment. It seemed so dated and heavy handed. The book was written in 1951 so here was America just coming out of WWII, a world that had seen the rise of fascist governments, the A bomb! the current cold war, McCarthyism... So I guess I can understand what "the future" might have felt like to a "thinking person". Face it, coming out of the war and the atrocities of mankind, the deprivations, people hungered for entertainment, good times, distractions. It might have felt that the real thinking, feeling, creative people were few and far between as America was distracted by buying houses and having children, buying cars and tv sets, plastic drinking glasses and bunk beds...

I feel, the real message here was not that books were "bad", not that television was bad and would rot your brain like the wife Mildred's, but …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I didn't read this in school as so many people did. I read it first in 2008 (brief "review" preserved below), and I wanted to read it again because he died last week and I thought perhaps I should give it another shake, since it's the book everyone knows him for. However, coming back to it a second time I still have the feeling that either 1) people haven't really read it, so their praise is in ignorance, or 2) I am somehow unable to understand it.

There are obvious parallels that can be made between F. 451 and today's world with it's "social media" that requires people to focus on little electronic screens to communicate with each other. That said, I think Bradbury does what all grumpy old men do and rushes to the extreme. Yes, Facebook and Twitter and website forums (not to mention BBS and #irc and …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

"Fahrenheit 451," first penned by Ray Bradbury in 1953, is another fatalistic look at a futuristic dystopia where "firemen" no longer put out fires--they start them. Written ingeniously and built upon the beautiful characterization of Guy Montag, this tiny novel has the power to invoke a call to arms in even the most stalwart of book haters. In the age of the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook, "Fahrenheit 451" is a apocalyptic warning to the dangers of losing physical books--and the dangers of walking down such a treacherous path.

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury is an immensely powerful, well-written dystopia that gets in one's mind through its deceptively simple narrative and heartfelt earnestness. A book about the dangers of censorship and modern-mass culture, it is just as reason...ant today as it was nearly sixty years ago. One notices immediately the vividness of the characters, drawn deeply and delicately. One feels for these characters, even if we do not know much about them – which is a testament to Bradbury's power as a writer and how much he cares about his work. One feels the tension and confusion of Guy, the enchantment of Clarisse, compelled by Beatty's defense of the system, pity for Millie's blindness, and even fear of the Mechanical Hound. What makes the book powerful in my opinion is not its relevance but its simplicity. Unlike books like “1984” and “Brave New World,” the changes in this future …

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