Fahrenheit 451

This was one of my favorite books, the scariest of a future where people are uneducated and books are a crime. Everyone is drugged up and socialmedi tv is life.

I was hoping that I would like this book because it's one of the three great dystopian classics and all, but I really couldn't get into it until somewhere in the later half. I didn't feel very connected to any of the characters at all, and everyone felt fleeting and simple (which admittedly, maybe was done on purpose, given that the point of the book is that everyone is simple and no one cares about complex stuff anymore), so that made it hard fo...read more

I’m so shocked that I wasn’t required to read this back when I was in high school. It’s a before - it’s - time masterpiece. The movie if you’re excited about watching it, is terrible and nothing like the book in my opinion. I would love to see a more accurate portrayal of the book on film.

Everything is boiling over, everything is igniting, everything is all too much in this alternate-history book. Fahrenheit 451, which I speed-read in one night to meet the deadline of before midnight to complete someone else’s midterm, is a particularly loud book. The vivid descriptions of the noise and atmosphere surround you.

Mi favorito del mundo entero. Lo leí cuando tenía 12 años y aún ningún otro libro lo ha conseguido equiparar. Cuando Clarisse murió sentí como si hubiera muerto alguien muy cercano a mi. Incomparable, me ha dejado loco JAJAJ.