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by Ray Bradbury (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: HarperVoyager; New edition edition (16 Aug 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006546064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006546061
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,151 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family", imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbour Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems--including The Martian Chroniclesand The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers aged 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman

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'Another indispensible classic' The Times 'Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction's conformist hells' Kingsley Amis 'Bradbury's is a very great and unusual talent' Christopher Isherwood 'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe' Guardian 'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator 'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' Daily Telegraph 'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas -- with dsicipline' Sunday Telegraph

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A message that grows more important every day, 9 May 2003
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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It was a pleasure to burn. So begins, with this absolutely perfect opening line, Ray Bradbury’s celebrated exposition of the dangers of censorship. Everybody knows that Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about book-burning, but this story goes much deeper than those not having read it may suspect. Its message truly does become even more germane and prophetic with every passing day. The skeleton of the plot is rather basic, really. Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to burn books and the houses in which these dangerous manifestations of inane scribbling reside – usually hidden. Fahrenheit 451’s message is one that all people should be exposed to, and this novel is such a quick (but powerful) read that everyone really should read it. As horrible as it is to envision, I fear that this type of censorship could indeed happen here.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book that continues to touch on modern life, 16 Jul 2004
By Mark Klobas (Tempe, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews
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Though I was long familiar with many of Bradbury's works, I had put off reading "Fahrenheit 451" in favor of other books until a friend lent it to me recently. After reading it, I'm angry with myself for having taken so long to pick it up. This book is a fantastic tale of a future society that abandons intellectual development and destroys its books. Like all great literature, it offers insight into our society today despite having been written over a half-century ago, and it continues to reward reading today.

This book is more than a seminal work of dystopian literature, however; it is also one of the most elegant meditations on the value of literature in modern society that I have ever read. In envisioning a society that destroys books, Bradbury has to explain what is lost as a result. His answer, as we see in Faber's expositions during Montag's visit, is the exact thing which makes this book worth reading - the insights we gain into our own world and our own lives through reading. Integral to this process, of course, is the fact that people must read them and put what they take from them to good use for a society to thrive; as Bradbury notes, the first step towards the world of his novel was taken when people stopped reading. It is this message which makes "Fahrenheit 451" essential reading, especially in a society where entertainment today bears an ever-closer resemblance to the noise-dominated media depicted in Bradbury's nightmarish future.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A considered, crafted masterpiece of long story telling, 27 Jul 2001
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Bradbury is some sort of genius. It's the careful genius of the craftsman short story writer. Whereas the popular approach is to hammer out 800 ill-considered pages of epic sweep, Bradbury is best at the length of 10, maybe 20 pages. Careful pages, every sentence positioned perfectly, every word doing the job of paragraphs in anothers book. It is this skill of minutae that he brings to his novels. Though short, 451 is the Bradbury equivalent of writing Ulysses twice. It is not a novel, it's barely book. It's art, and fine art at that. The sort of art that sends collectors running back into burning buildings...
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2.0 out of 5 stars Classic but not modern
A short and concise book, a story that tries to make you think about the direction the world is taking, a theme that could as easily be set in a contemporary setting, but a style... Read more
Published 20 days ago by aceadrian

2.0 out of 5 stars RAD BRADBURTY AUDIO CD
SADLY DUE TO AN ERROR THE CD IS IN GERMAN. NO GOOD TO ME AS AN AUDIO BOOK. I PLAN TO RETURN IT IF POSTAGE NOT TOO MUCH ..
Published 1 month ago by D. North

5.0 out of 5 stars Fahrenheit 451
Very good value. Needed a new copy to replace my tatty 25 year old version. What more can I say. The up-dated comments from Ray Bradbury are also a very interesting addition and... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Written in the basement of the UCLA library
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... Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2006 by bernie

5.0 out of 5 stars "We went right on insulting the dead..."
I've been checking out some of the classics that I never gave a chance while in high school, now that I'm a much more aware and mature reader. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2004 by Michael Crane

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent premise, variable delivery
Bradbury wrote the book as a short story and was asked to expand it to be big enough for a novel, and it shows a little. Read more
Published on 24 Jul 2004 by Maclennane

5.0 out of 5 stars "Books ought to have a happy ending !"
Did you notice that nowadays writers and filmmakers tend to make no difference between Horror and Science-Fiction? Read more
Published on 7 Jul 2004 by Jan Dierckx

4.0 out of 5 stars Single-sitting novel
I keep coming back to science fiction written in the 50's and 60's. This novel is a perfect example of why I do this. Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2002 by W. G. Hardy

5.0 out of 5 stars When you are older and wiser you will get it!
I'm sorry the last couple of reviewers didn't enjoy this book. It is getting so close to the truth it is scary. Read more
Published on 7 Jul 2001 by sandy@jaorr.freeserve.co.uk

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring and confusing
I never really got into the book - it was very confusing and dull. The only reason I continued to read it was that I had to do a book report on it for english homework. Read more
Published on 14 May 2001

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