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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

ISBN: 9780006546061
Release Date: 16 Aug 1993
Average rating: (read by 501 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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	horrabin
	Rated it 20 days ago

A Sci Fi classic and a must read. Much copied but never bettered. The obvious inspiration for movies like Equillibrium etc

	Gruffling Full Review
	Rated it 28 days ago

One of those many books that I would "get around to one day" it was quite a shock to my system. Although I had heard it discussed and I knew about the whole "temperature at which paper burns" I had never thought that the hero of the story was someone...

	ssolson Full Review
	Rated it 1 months ago

When I was a kid growing up in LA, Bradbury was a member of my church. He would come bicycling up a few Sundays a year and we knew he was kind of this author. When I got to high school, I found out he was really good. By then he had drifted off to a...

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