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From Bradbury's Coda at the end of the novel:
"Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorites, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever."
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"Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorites, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever."
I think that says it all. ...more
Read it first in 8th grade and then again as an adult. It's interesting to read in the context of TV and social media.
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Jun 28, 2007
My work is never done
marked it as to-read
An Amazing book about when the Governments of the World become so corrupt and Tyrannical that books are censored in order to stop people from thinking for themselves.
I'd never read it, so I finally got around to it. The part that most struck me was the wife who was so immersed in the television and radio media that she barely interacted with anything else. A prediction of submission to the noise of media and the depression that goes with it... The male/female dynamics were dated and the end simplified the effects of bombing. I've read one of the stories included in the volume: the Playground - a very dark look at childhood, but true enough to be effective. (
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Nov 11, 2007
Rindis
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it was amazing
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