Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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Author: Ray BradburyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1968
ISBN: N/A
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: One of the best of the disturbing future stories
Summary: 5 Stars
While many people consider Ray Bradbury to be a science fiction writer, that is a very inaccurate and incomplete categorization. He is a master storyteller, in many ways I consider him superior to Asimov and Heinlein, because he is better able to take an effective turn to the dystopia or macabre genres.
This book is truly one of the best unfortunate futuristic or dystopia stories ever written. Montag is a fireman, only now they start fires rather than put them out. The job of the fire department is to wait around for an informant to expose someone who still owns books. If that tip turns out to be accurate, they go to the house, douse the books with kerosene and then burn them.
As the story opens, Montag is like his comrades in the fire department, he loves his job and never thinks too much about the consequences of what it is that he is doing. However, when one woman prefers to go up in flames with her books rather than live without them, he begins to have doubts. Unfortunately, his is not a society that deals easily with people having such doubts and he becomes a criminal on the run.
In typical Bradbury style the story ends on an ambiguous note. While Montag is still living and there is the potential for a better future, it is not a certainty. Fortunately, he is now among other people who cherish the knowledge contained in books, so there is hope that literary civilization will rise again.
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