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Fahrenheit 451
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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Fahrenheit 451 has a meaningful message, but I don’t think it was told in the best way, so I give it a 4.
Bradbury has always been one of my favorite authors, although I haven't read this before until now. Surprisingly, such a short book took me such a long time to finish, and I believe it was mainly because of the wording and the intelligence needed to follow along.
Наш вердикт таков, книга для подростков, написана очень просто, быстрое развитие сюжета. главный герой Монтаг слишком либерал
Listened to the audiobook read by Tim Robbins. Took a while to get into the book - probably a combination of the subject matter, reading style, and the sheer volume of stuff going through my head while trying to focus on the book. Got to part two and decided to start over. Much better the second time. Interesting premise and finish to the book.
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