Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
It seems difficult to go more than a month without hearing about books being banned from school shelves and reading lists. It's gotten to the point where there's even a Banned Books week. The idea of banning books made me realize that it was time for me to reread Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451.
This dystopian novel, written in 1953, describes a future in which all books are banned, and burned. The book follows fireman Guy Montag and his disillusionment with his job and society.
Early in the book, Guy is returning from work - a job where he and his fellow firemen - burn books, as well as the houses that they are hidden in. He meets one of his neighbors, Clarisse, a young woman who loves books and questions everything she sees. This sets him wondering about books to the point where he takes a book from one of the houses he, and his crew, must burn.
After meeting Faber, an old man who remembers books well and loves them, Guy becomes a fugitive, fleeing after his crew is sent to burn his own house. After watching his house burn, he then points the flame at the others in his crew, then goes on the run, eventually falling in with a group of book loving fugitives.
What happens next? Read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and find out.
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