Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Title: Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

Rating: 3 stars

Ages: 12 and up

We read this book in English these past few weeks, and today finally finished.

I say finally because it was a very slow read for me, it not being my usual genre of choice.

Guy Montag is a fireman of the future. In the future where the heroic firemen do not put out the fires, but start them. They set fire upon our beloved books!

In Ray Bradbury's amazingly accurate future, TV is everyone's main priority. Montag's wife, Millie is quite obsessed with her 'family' that lives in her 3 walled TV in the parlor.

Montag is dramatically changed during the novel- first, by meeting Clarisse McClellan who showed him a different point of view, secondly by witnessing a suicide from a woman who was so in love with her books, she was convinced that she couldn't live without them and therefore did not leave her house after the firemen set fire to it.

Montag shows Millie the stash of books he has been collecting for some time and plans to read them all. But this was before the scare of Millie turning him in to the firemen, who make Montag set fire to his own home.


Also by this author:
*The Martian Chronicles
*Dandelion Wine
*Something Wicked this way Comes
*The Illustrated Man
*The October Country
*The Golden Apples of the Sun
*Zen in the Art of Writing
*The Halloween Tree

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