Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345342966
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0345342968
Label: Del Rey Books,U.S.
Manufacturer: Del Rey Books,U.S.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 01, 1992
Publisher: Del Rey Books,U.S.
Studio: Del Rey Books,U.S.

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Rating: - Now hold your horses...
Yes, this is a classic, dystopian and intelligent sci-fi. But what it also is, is lacking from litterary qualities and political subtlety. This is a quite clumsily disguised piece of propaganda. Although I agree with Ray about the evil of censorship and state anti-intellectuality, I don't need him to tell me so. Nor am I sitting here reviewing his political agenda, but a book, which should be judged on its own merits rather than the political ideas it promotes. And as far as books go, this really ... Read More

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Rating: - Chilling and deeply thought provoking
Whilst Orwell's book is more expansive, it is Fahrenheit 451 that reflects the sad public acceptance of ignorance. The notion that books and newspapers (and other forms of literature) might die out, not so much because of government or media pressure, but ultimately because ignorance becomes so rife that the people don't want them anymore is compelling and disturbingly true today.
It is in the true spirit of the likes of 1984 and A Canticle for Leibowitz, and will leave any intelligent reader ... Read More

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Rating: - The world as it is.
Farenhieght 451 should be read by all those who have an incline that maybe society is full of crap, that their governments are lying to them and that popular culture is a bland result of imense peer pressure and conformity.
Bradbury's novel lays bare the fundemental fabric of modern comercial society recealing it for the pathetic sham that it is and lamenting the enslavement of the individual by not only ultra conservative goverments but also subversivly by the media. This book is as timely now ... Read More

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Rating: - Bradbury's always timely warning on the evils of censorship
I am teaching "Fahrenheit 451" as the example of a dsytopian novel in my Science Fiction class, although it is certainly one of the most atypical of that particular type of narrative discourse. Compared to such heavy weight examples as George Orwell's "1984," Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," Yevgeny Zamiatin's "We," Ray Bradbury's imaginative meditation on censorship seems like light reading. But the delicious irony of a world in which firemen start fires remains postent and the idea of people memorizing ... Read More

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Rating: - F 451 is a book for those who refuse to be dumbed down.
As a high school junior, I was recently made to read Farenheit 451. Unlike the typical high school student, reading is one of my most cherished activities. Thus I was pleased to find that we would be reading 'heavy' novels and were expected to do some thinking beyond the usual confines of teen thought. I was shocked at the way most of my peers responded to the novel and the assignment itself. Most hated the novel and were disgruntled to find that we were (gasp) supposed to think? The very idea! It was actually ... Read More

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