jvt038 reviewed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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5 stars
"Kerosene", he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me."
Guy Montag, firefighter whose job it is to burn all books and other forms of literature.He meets a peculiar girl, Clarisse, who has a peculiar view of the world.The quotes in this book are very remarkable, like
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
And when the war's over, some day, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by one, to recite what they know and we'll set it up in type until another Dark Age, when we might have to do the whole damn thing over again. But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.'
I personally think these quotes are very inspiring, as they tell that books are just containers for knowledge, and man will never give up searching and looking for knowledge, as it is worth everything. The dystopian atmosphere is very well built, and despite the small amount of pages, Ray Bradbury has yet managed to create an inspiring and frightening world. 5/5.