Book Info
Name of Book : Fahrenheit 451
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Voyager
Publication Date : Oct 21, 2014
No. of Pages : 5 Hours 1 Minute
Format : Audible Audiobook
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I selected Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury for #52booksin52weeks reading challenge.
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Author Introduction
In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."
Blurb
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
My Opinion
"We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law. Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ."
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an intense dystopian classic, which is rather unbelievable. It brings to you a world where forbidden books are burned. My heart crunched at the mere mention of this—how can someone burn books? And, definitely, I don't want to be a part of this kind of world. The plot is fast and picks up the reader's interest at an instant. Guy Montag is a fireman, and his character develops in the most interesting way. You would not really be able to believe that books have become forbidden drugs in that world. The whole scenario is focused on firemen and their work. Each character has its own voice, which makes this book a classic. But the climax has a major cliffhanger, so be ready to take
it in.
My favorite part of the book is towards the end, when Guy Montag finds his real self in books. Every reader should immerse itself in those beautiful lines. It was definitely a 5-star read and an amazing book.
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