Fahrenheit 451

Digital Audio

English language

Published March 12, 2012 by Blackstone Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-4551-0632-5
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OCLC Number:
966101094

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4 stars (74 reviews)

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires, and he enjoys his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames. He never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid and a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do.

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reviewed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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2 stars

Una novela infantiloide. Y no me refiero a los personajes, que viven en un sistema que los quiere idiotizados, me refiero a la forma en la que está escrita, parece un libro dirigido a niños o a gente de derecha (que ya sabemos que no le da la cabeza para mucho). Si quieres una buena distopía: 1984.

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

It's been years since I read this, years before being online and years before newspapers started folding. It's a different world now, and this short novel, written in the early 1950s, is eerily prescient. Ray Bradbury did not predict the internet, exactly, but something very much like it; many people are addicted to sitting in their "parlors," places in their houses in which meaningless conversation is piped, soap opera like, to keep people senselessly occupied. There are no educational programs, and books are burned. Suspect someone of hoarding books? Send an alarm! The firemen will come and burn down the guilty person's house and arrest him/her.

Books cause thinking and different opinions. Some books make people uncomfortable. Many books would belie the history that's been rewritten for the masses. Therefore, books are poisonous--away with them all!

This story focuses on one fireman named Guy Montag, and his yearning for life …

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

451°F is certainly a classic science fiction book. I re-read it since I'd just re-read Starship Troopers but it didn't seem to "age" as well as that book. The philosophy is just as important, but didn't seem to be delivered as effectively. There is a much increased use of imagery in Fahrenheit 451, and that makes it a much different read than books like Starship Troopers. Still, a critical book in the science fiction canon.

reviewed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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