Surprisingly, I picked this book up mere weeks after buying it instead of procrastinating for months (or years) like I generally do. Somehow, I'm a little more open to trying new books-especially ones out of my comfort zone-when I come across them in the bookstore. On my next bookstore visit, I passed by the book and impulsively picked it up. ![]() ![]() Being in the online book space, social media highly affects my reading. my review & moreįahrenheit 451 was never a big spot on my radar but someone I follow spoke highly about it a few weeks back which made me intrigued. 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.Ĭontent Warnings: brainwashing, violence, suicide, murder, war, injury, oppressive government. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. ![]() Sixty 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.
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