Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1491536241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 557 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.. Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins.Guy Montag is a fireman. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, wh
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. --Neil Roseman. Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in t
"It was a pleasure to burn." Solari In a future society, books are forbidden and "firemen" responsible for burning the remaining titles. That's the job of one Guy Montag, but he begins to question his role as he gets in contact with a teenager who reads secretly. And he becomes himself a criminal reader of smuggled books.The most surprising thing about Fahrenheit 451 is that it's premise could, in the hands of a lesser writer, easily turn a condescending little lesson about the importance of reading books. But like any work of art that would be missed if it was burned, Fahrenheit 451 doesn't want to give you answers. The book wants you to ask questions.The main point for me . "There must be something in books" Ethan "There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."My first encounter with Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451 came during my junior year of high school. It was our assigned summer reading and couldn't have been less interested in it. To be clear, I spent my summer devouring tons of other books, but there's something about a "required" read that did little to motivate me. I skimmed through the novel a few days before classes resumed and survived our minimal discussions mostly unscathed.Flash forward to today. I've made it. "Fahrenheit Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury MJ James Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyRating: **** (4 stars)Book length: 227 pagesGenre: Science FictionIs there still any value in books? We can access information just by speaking into a phone. We can turn on a television set and know that is happening anywhere in the world.Is there still any value in education? Why learn when you can utilize technology to do anything you need it to do? Is there any value for going to school to study art, English, or any other humanities?In Bradbury's world books were no longer seen to be of value. They were corrupting the minds. Schools were no longer interesting. There were more important things to pursue.At ni. 51 by Ray Bradbury" according to MJ James. Fahrenheit Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury MJ James Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyRating: **** (4 stars)Book length: 227 pagesGenre: Science FictionIs there still any value in books? We can access information just by speaking into a phone. We can turn on a television set and know that is happening anywhere in the world.Is there still any value in education? Why learn when you can utilize technology to do anything you need it to do? Is there any value for going to school to study art, English, or any other humanities?In Bradbury's world books were no longer seen to be of value. They were corrupting the minds. Schools were no longer interesting. There were more important things to pursue.At ni. 51by Ray BradburyRating: **** (Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury MJ James Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyRating: **** (4 stars)Book length: 227 pagesGenre: Science FictionIs there still any value in books? We can access information just by speaking into a phone. We can turn on a television set and know that is happening anywhere in the world.Is there still any value in education? Why learn when you can utilize technology to do anything you need it to do? Is there any value for going to school to study art, English, or any other humanities?In Bradbury's world books were no longer seen to be of value. They were corrupting the minds. Schools were no longer interesting. There were more important things to pursue.At ni. stars)Book length: 227 pagesGenre: Science FictionIs there still any value in books? We can access information just by speaking into a phone. We can turn on a television set and know that is happening anywhere in the world.Is there still any value in education? Why learn when you can utilize technology to do anything you need it to do? Is there any value for going to school to study art, English, or any other humanities?In Bradbury's world books were no longer seen to be of value. They were corrupting the minds. Schools were no longer interesting. There were more important things to pursue.At ni