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This was an interesting read. I definitely didn't catch everything and need to go back to re-read it again. It was a very weird experience to read it in 2020 with the state of the world the way it is...
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Even though this book was written 60 years ago it's amazing how much it still applies to today. In Montag's world books were not only banned but destroyed, burned to ashes along with the house they were held in and in many cases the people who hid them. The government says that books are silly and the words meaningless yet destroys them all proving that someone in authority firmly believes that a book is a dangerous thing. Which is actually what happens. Montag meets a girl who society deems 'cr
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