Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
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73 yrs
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury appears on public reading lists from influential readers.
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“Like many public school kids, I was assigned Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in high school. I remembered the book as a warning against totalitarian censorship by the government. It was only later, re-reading it as an adult, that I realized Bradbury—who had written the book on purchased time at a library typewriter—was depicting something much more insidious. As Captain Beatty explains to Montag, who had begun to doubt his terrible profession, censorship was what the people wanted. This horrendous burning of books hadn’t been forced on them by a tyrant. They had chosen this.”
“[About Fahrenheit 451] it is so bad, it is so terrible. I think it is a perfect example of a book that the moral is the core center of the novel which just makes it so god damn boring.”
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