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| Fahrenheit 451 | 
 enlarge | Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: HarperVoyager
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.03
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 171377
Media: Paperback
Edition: 50Anniversary Ed
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0007181701
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780007181704
ASIN: 0007181701
Publication Date: August 2, 2004
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 It was a pleasure to burn.... September 21, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't believe that some people could read this book and not understand why it is important. This book is a classic for a reason. Underneath the dystopian surface are truths- and frightening resemblances to our own society. When I read this for the first time, I was shocked and pleased to hear that there is someone else who thinks like me. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury, for turning a critical eye on your future, peices of our present (the books is frighteningly prophetic) and writing your anthem for all of us who choose to think and not just follow.
Great book July 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a science fiction classic that really gets you thinking. In America it is difficult to imagine a world where free thought is so blatantly censured, but other governments in our world seek to keep their peoples ignorant of the great ideas of writers. This is one of those "it could happen if we're not careful" books.
A must read for everyone January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be on everyones bookshelves and should be required reading for every middle school student. Instead we force rot our children's brains with Harry Potter nonsense along with other books of fluff and non substance. Farenheit 451 might be science fiction but I believe it to also be an insight into things to come.
It is hard for me to imagine that someone with a phd supposedly would give this book a 1 for review, but at least even that sheds a bit of hope on our civilization. At least for the time being we can all still have our differences. I do question though if it was actually read instead of some form of protest over a required reading.
This is a well thought out short book (approximately 180 pages), no sex scenes, a few curse words (the typical) and even the violent scenes do not dwell on the blood and gut portions of death, therefore making this an acceptable book for any level of reading. I my opinion this should probably be the first science fiction book anyone picks up to read.
 True Fiction March 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
True Fiction
Though this book [Faremhieght 451] is a piece science fiction, it relates in its own little ways to the way the world is today. I, for one, can see this world of ours turning into a world with the same basis and same ideals that make up this book Farenhieght 451; a world which trys to keep everyone happy and careless about everything to the point of making people seemingly mindless, and in the process of doing so they destroy everything that brings people feeling and a individual way of thinking. Farenhieght 451 is a must read for anyone who likes a good philosophical novel.
 The usual dreck June 9, 2007
0 out of 21 found this review helpful
I had to read this when I was in high school. So did my children. Now my GRANDCHILDREN have to read it! None of us has been able to discover WHY! Of all of the superb books I have read in my life, not ONE has ever been selected for required summer reading!
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