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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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Sep 07, 2008 T.A. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real." - Ray Bradbury

There was a time when I considered paranoid dystopic books like this as quaint and relics of cold war anxiety. Nearing the end of the Bush administration in 2008, I can't help but feel this book is more vital than it ever has been.

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Sep 03, 2007 Cindywho rated it liked it · review of another edition

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. ( ...more

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Jul 26, 2007 Jessi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

I love this book so much that I have 451 tattooed on my arm (and Bradbury knows!). I have read it so many times I have lost count. Not just a good read, this is an important book that everyone should read.

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Jul 10, 2007 Julie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, favorites, speculative-fiction, i-own-it

Worth re-reading at least once a decade. It's still relevant and it's so interesting to look at how he envisoned technology and where it is now and what effect it has on us. Ipod, anyone? ...more

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