Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." -Bradbury

I read 451 before in high school. I loved it then but I think I understand it better now. I feel much more sympathetic with Montag's confusion and rising hysteria over a vapid and pointless existence.

Censorship is still out there and Bradbury's ideas about dumbing down literature to make it more digestible and less challenging really spoke to me. I think society has set the bar lower in what is found offensive (apathy? cynicism?) but I also think the palate has become bland. Like fast food, all starch, fat and salt, not too spicy and nothing unexpected.



Read the appendix, it is almost better than the book.


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