Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Book Summary Author: Ray Bradbury Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2005-12-15 ISBN: 078617627X Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks |
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Book Reviews of the Fahrenheit 451
Customer Review: Written in the basement of the UCLA library
Summary: 5 Stars
I do not want to tell much of the story, as the unfolding is part of the intrigue. However now that houses are fire proof the purpose of firemen is performing a service by burning books to maintain the happy social order.
Naturally one fireman goes awry after several emotional incidences from someone burning up with the books to a young neighbor with strange ways, which run counter to his carrier. This leads to all kinds of deviant things like reading. What are you doing now?
One big rift between the book and the movie [Fahrenheit 451 (1966) -- Oscar Werner, Julie Christie] is that in the movie the "written word" was completely removed (even from the credits); where as in the book the state was against was literature and not technical writing.
Books are just symbols of ideas that could have been on the screen also. There is deference between training and education. Among other reasons the book was a symbol of one mans superiority over another in a world of equals.