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"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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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.
Whch isn't to say that there are firemen running around burning books and comm ...more
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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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.
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?
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Read again with my daughter as she is a sophomore now in high school. I enjoyed it much more having chosen to read it instead of being told to.
I read this in French years ago and thought it was just good not great. Maybe I should try reading it in English.
Aug 27, 2009
Dave Schumaker
marked it as to-read
