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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

ISBN: 9780006546061
Release Date: 16 Aug 1993
Average rating: (read by 432 members)

Categories: Science fiction

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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	neutralforce
	Rated it 5 months ago

An extremely relevant commentary on literary censorship, itself censored.

	pennk781
	Rated it 5 months ago

thought provoking and erie. i enjoyed this book very much.

	gazillionaire
	Rated it 5 months ago

I liked it!! I read it last year, and I remember it being full of good visual metaphors. It doesn't have too many characters, and they are all well written. It's a good book to stuff in your backpack and then read when you're bored in a lecture hall.

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