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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Why we're reading this: #7 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...
#10 on Lo…more
[close] #7 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...
#10 on Locus Magazines Best Fantasy novels of the 20th century http://www.locusmag.com/2012/AllCentu...

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Feb 01, 2008 Carrie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, 4-and-a-half-to-5-stars, science-fiction, classics, dystopia, mini-tbr-1, read-my-shelves

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The main character is Guy Montag a fireman. But not in the way that we know it. In this time in the future houses are
safeguarded against fires, these fireman set fires, they are known as "book burners". Because books where for burning they
corrupted the mind. But thanks to the interesting free thinking characters that we meet Montag realizes what he has to do. He realizes that books are something to be saved and read. It wasn't a crime to take joy in what lies between the pages. Do to his actio ...more

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