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by Ray Bradbury (Author)
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Bradbury's novel details the eternal war between censorship and freedom of thought and continues to be relevant today more than ever. In Bradbury's future, books are illegal and happily so--citizens are too busy watching their wall-sized televisions and listening to their in-ear "seashell" radios to care about the loss of good literature. Guy Montag begins the novel as a fireman who enforces the temperature of the title--that at which books burn--but then transforms and tries to show his society the mistake of censorship. It's a treat to hear Bradbury read his own work, almost as if a wise elder were sharing a cautionary tale. Sometimes the slower pace seems awkward for a novel of such action, but overall the reading does justice to the timeless classic. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 451 is not the half of it, Feb 2 2007
By Rand McNally (The world) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
For those who enjoyed Brave New World and 1984, you'll love this book also. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a novel about a futuristic society where censorship reigns supreme and independent thought is deeply scrutinized. This is a world where the televisions talk to you, vehicular manslaughter is an innocent charge as long as you have insurance, and fireman burn books instead of putting fires out. The main character in this novel is a fireman named Guy Montag, a man happy with his job, his wife, his place in society, and life in general. All of this holds true until one fateful evening, after a successful night of setting millions of pages ablaze, Montag runs into a wistful teenager named Clarisse. She is an introverted girl by this future society's standards because she doesn't enjoy playing sports, or driving fast. Her main interests are thinking and talking about what she's thinking--very anti-social to everyone else. Clarisse is the catalyst for Montag's rise from subservient book burner to independent thinking intellectual. Montag begins to take books from the houses he burns and hide them in his air conditioner, promising to read them one day. One night, the firemen come to an old woman's house where they are to burn her collection of books. Beatty, the firehouse captain, douses her collection of books with kerosene, but instead of letting that be the end of it, the old woman decides to set herself on fire along with her treasures. Montag becomes very sickened by this event and decides not to be a fireman anymore. This is where one of the most crucial scenes comes into play, Beatty comes to Montag's house to talk him into staying a fireman, using all of his cunning and sly words to tell him how things were, and how they are better now. Montag makes a choice not go with what society wants, and to become a rebel. Montag meets with a professor to learn how to fully understand what he's reading, and they come upon an insidious plan to plant books in fireman's houses and call alarms on them, effectively destroying the idea that books should be burned if the burners themselves want them. Montag decides to go into work one last time, and after they get a call, much to his surprise, they arrive at his house. Montag's own wife Mildred had called in an alarm, and quickly left. Montag kills the other firemen and goes on the run, eventually meeting a gang of old college professors in the woods, and becoming one of them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, along with two other I recently purchased: Jackson McCrae's Katzenjammer and David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty--nothing at all like Fahrenheit 451, but then you wouldn't want to read the same thing over and over, would you?
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5.0 out of 5 stars CLASSY SCI-FI, Mar 12 2009
By Lloyd Poast (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
Any fan of science fiction or just all around great storytelling will fall for Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. The story, about a future where fireman start fires and burn books, is a classic tale of one man's(Montag) freewill overcoming the oppressions of a society that's lost it's passion. It's Bradbury at his best, filled with memorable characters, an engaging plot, and some of the most mesmerizing prose ever written.

The scenes involving Clarisse, Montag's young and free spirited neighbor, are truly beautiful and a nice contrast to the frenetic and frightening climax. A must read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Feels Like a Real-Life Thriller, May 18 2008
By Teddy (Richmond, BC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel (Hardcover)
In a futuristic society when firefighters don't put out fires anymore. Their job now it to create fires. When an alarm is called in, firemen gear up as they use to and speed to the scene, a house with forbidden books in it. All the books are gathered up and hosed down with not water, but kerosene, then set a blaze. Montag is one of those firemen.

This is a time when in most homes, the walls in the living room aren't walls, their giant screen televisions. The shows on mostly comprise of nonsensical bickering, for entertainment. People are not concerned about any issues, except forbidden books. Ignorance is bliss.

When Montag meets Clarrise, a 17-year-old girl, at first she annoys him. She likes to ask a lot of questions and notices things that most people just don't notice or even care about. However, as he gets to know her better, he starts to question things himself. A question that he has is a very dangerous question: why are books so dangerous that we have to burn them? What's in them? As he pursues this question, he gets in trouble.

This book was first published in 1951. I found this it quite frightening because there are some countries that seemed to have arrived to this in our world, and others seem to be heading towards it. In the West, people turn on their televisions and watch sitcoms much more then crack open a book. When most people ask me what I like to watch on TV, I respond that I only watch a couple things, mostly on PBS. I mostly read books, they look at me like am strange and proceed to name off all the shows that they watch.

Bradbury does a great job describing the futuristic society with great detail. If you like books like A Brave New World, then you will also like Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury hit a home run with this timeless classic!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic that should be required reading..
Fahrenheit 451 is a wonderful story about a fireman living in a futuristic society where books are banned & censorship is commonplace. Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Tupone

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wake-up Call!
"Fahrenheit 451" is a futuristic fantasy set in an America in which reading is forbidden, firemen burn books and everyone rushes without taking time to "stop and smell the... Read more
Published on Nov 14 2007 by James Gallen

5.0 out of 5 stars Science Fiction?
If you want a description of the plot on this novel, you'll need to read another review. What I want to say is that I didn't know "science fiction" could be this good. Read more
Published on Sep 27 2007 by Dan Collins

5.0 out of 5 stars Flaming Out Knowledge
The novel is set in a futuristic America, where people's hedonist attitude has led them to abandon any self-enlightenment and the possession of books is considered illegal. Read more
Published on Mar 19 2007 by Talha Dadabhoy

5.0 out of 5 stars Written in the basement of the UCLA library
I do not want to tell much of the story, as the unfolding is part of the intrigue. However now that houses are fire proof the purpose of firemen is performing a service by burning... Read more
Published on Nov 6 2006 by bernie

5.0 out of 5 stars Burning hot
Still harrowing after all these years, and perhaps even more so now in SOME countries (not calling any names here), 451 is as disturbing and enlightening as it was low the many... Read more
Published on Oct 20 2006 by Charles F.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Bradbury's best

This somber book, with its theme of government-encouraged anti-intellectualism, was written during an age when "eggheads" were suspected of being subversive somehow, maybe... Read more
Published on Oct 6 2006 by Mark Wakely

5.0 out of 5 stars The temperature at which a book burns
Still harrowing after all these years, and perhaps even more so now in SOME countries (not calling any names here), 451 is as disturbing and enlightening as it was low the many... Read more
Published on May 25 2006 by Charles F.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Students Review
Fahrenheit 451 was a novel written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. This book is not for people who like to read books that are easy to comprehend. Read more
Published on Mar 7 2006 by jason nasworthy

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Amazon.com Pick this year!
This book is extremely entertaining, I couldn't put it down. It basically starts with a man in a dystopian society where the firemen don't put out fires, they start them. Read more
Published on Jul 20 2005 by Dan Hallman

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