jessicabunn's review against another edition
4.0
This book continues to be one of my favorites even after reading it for the 2nd time. The writing style can be hard to follow sometimes, but otherwise still a great story! The movie was AWFUL though because the left out so many character roles or just changed them into something completely different.
j32em's review against another edition
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Brb just burning this book after memorising it
sarcastabot's review against another edition
4.0
Okay, so I understand why this book needed to be written and I understand why it needs to be read, but I feel like I'm the only person who felt like...I don't know….
Let me explain first that I am an imaginative reader. If the author is good, I am able to see, touch, smell, and hear a story. If the author is really good, I can pretty much step into the character's skin, and be them. Think their thoughts, feel their feelings, etc.
This book made me feel like I was in a sweaty fever dream. Like I felt like someone slipped me some LSD and I was in TV Land, living in some strange cookie cutter box home with giant tv walls, in a Leave It To Beaver neighborhood. I wanted to hug all my books and keep them away from the firemen outside (it didn't help that I live next to a fire station).
That being said, this book made me afraid. It made me afraid of my future, our kids' future, their kids' future. Although some things were a little too science fiction (the Hound), I feel like the soullessness this book expels is not too far from 'home'. It made me think about how many of us out there actually appreciate our art, our ethics, our science? Our answer lies in the mediocre sitcoms with the same played out plot still somehow being rewarded an audience who claps their hands and laughs or pouts their lips and aww's with the crowd tracks as if they need to be guided on what is and isn't funny. I often wonder if this is how we learn to be human. If this sort of TV is our major resource to learn how to be a person, where are we headed as a species? This book?
I know I'm being obvious. This review is the point of Farhenheit 451, so I should thoroughly address the second point of the book: Fuck Mildred.
I'd give this book 5 stars because the message is clear and definitely scares the living garbage out of me, but I'm rating it 4 stars, because believe it or not I don't like feeling like I got slipped LSD.
Let me explain first that I am an imaginative reader. If the author is good, I am able to see, touch, smell, and hear a story. If the author is really good, I can pretty much step into the character's skin, and be them. Think their thoughts, feel their feelings, etc.
This book made me feel like I was in a sweaty fever dream. Like I felt like someone slipped me some LSD and I was in TV Land, living in some strange cookie cutter box home with giant tv walls, in a Leave It To Beaver neighborhood. I wanted to hug all my books and keep them away from the firemen outside (it didn't help that I live next to a fire station).
That being said, this book made me afraid. It made me afraid of my future, our kids' future, their kids' future. Although some things were a little too science fiction (the Hound), I feel like the soullessness this book expels is not too far from 'home'. It made me think about how many of us out there actually appreciate our art, our ethics, our science? Our answer lies in the mediocre sitcoms with the same played out plot still somehow being rewarded an audience who claps their hands and laughs or pouts their lips and aww's with the crowd tracks as if they need to be guided on what is and isn't funny. I often wonder if this is how we learn to be human. If this sort of TV is our major resource to learn how to be a person, where are we headed as a species? This book?
I know I'm being obvious. This review is the point of Farhenheit 451, so I should thoroughly address the second point of the book: Fuck Mildred.
I'd give this book 5 stars because the message is clear and definitely scares the living garbage out of me, but I'm rating it 4 stars, because believe it or not I don't like feeling like I got slipped LSD.
k_dubzy's review against another edition
Eh ... I don't really feel one way or the other about this book.
milliad's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
ninanavatta's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
cristinafm's review against another edition
3.0
Esta fue una re lectura que ya no recordaba ni un poco de lo que trataba, es por ello que haré mi propia sinopsis:
Montag se cuestiona acerca de su oficio, gracias a la chica Clarisse, quien se pregunta el por qué de todo lo que le dicen y enseñan.
Clarisse un día, le pregunta a Montag si es feliz, pregunta que desencadena una serie de eventos catárticos en el protagonista, cómo ser partícipe de una anciana que se quema viva con su biblioteca.
Un día Montag recuerda a un viejo maestro de literatura con quien se había topado hace varios años, lo contacta e inician un plan.
El final no me agrado del todo la huida de Montag y el encuentro con los inteligentes vagabundos mezclado con el tema de la guerra, ¿es que ahora ya habían cambiado los planes de Montag? Y entonces, el plan inicial que tenía con Faber ¿pasó a segundo término?
Montag se cuestiona acerca de su oficio, gracias a la chica Clarisse, quien se pregunta el por qué de todo lo que le dicen y enseñan.
Clarisse un día, le pregunta a Montag si es feliz, pregunta que desencadena una serie de eventos catárticos en el protagonista, cómo ser partícipe de una anciana que se quema viva con su biblioteca.
Un día Montag recuerda a un viejo maestro de literatura con quien se había topado hace varios años, lo contacta e inician un plan.
El final no me agrado del todo la huida de Montag y el encuentro con los inteligentes vagabundos mezclado con el tema de la guerra, ¿es que ahora ya habían cambiado los planes de Montag? Y entonces, el plan inicial que tenía con Faber ¿pasó a segundo término?
lemonsmith's review against another edition
4.0
Some books just come by when you are on a roll, binge reading, to stop you along the tracks. But I still have to appreciate Ray Bradbury for this piece of art. The prose couldn't get any more beautiful. His words not just conveyed the story but also the feelings and the emotions through poetry. A must-read if you have the time and patience.
sarahglabb's review against another edition
5.0
I've been reading really DEPRESSING books lately. Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, Of Human Bondage, and a few others. The Gandhi book was a bit sad too, biography of his life which ended so terribly. I feel like crying, again.
Fahrenheit 451 is a sad book but it didn't make me cry. I had moments of WHAT??????
Firemen burn books but don't stop fires. Houses now have this fireproof coating. That blew my mind at first, totally opposite of today. People kind of lost social interaction. I would go crazy with the wall t.vs. Crazy, I repeat CRAZY. Trying to imagine a world without books is almost impossible for me, I read all the time. That's pretty much what I do. I don't watch T.V, really I don't. I really don't care for it. That's all what Montag (main character) wife does. She even has a annoying name. Mildred, sounds like mildew to me. Just saying. Part of the reason I don't like that name is another book with a character with the same name who was impossible to like. Same with poor Millie. My least favorite character in the whole, whinny and ANNOYING.
Montag the main character is actually name after a paper company, I heard, that's pretty darn cool. He was a very rash character, and at times full of himself but you love him any way.
People aren't allowed to feel bad. Here's a lesson to anybody: Feeling bad is sometimes necessary. You're not living if you don't feel bad once in awhile. In the end, it bite the people's butt. This is what happens when you don't care about nothing:
One thing I like about the ending is that there's still hope. It seems that's the only thing left.
Depressing.
I need to stop reading depressing books.
Yep I do.
Really good book, really good.
Fahrenheit 451 is a sad book but it didn't make me cry. I had moments of WHAT??????
Firemen burn books but don't stop fires. Houses now have this fireproof coating. That blew my mind at first, totally opposite of today. People kind of lost social interaction. I would go crazy with the wall t.vs. Crazy, I repeat CRAZY. Trying to imagine a world without books is almost impossible for me, I read all the time. That's pretty much what I do. I don't watch T.V, really I don't. I really don't care for it. That's all what Montag (main character) wife does. She even has a annoying name. Mildred, sounds like mildew to me. Just saying. Part of the reason I don't like that name is another book with a character with the same name who was impossible to like. Same with poor Millie. My least favorite character in the whole, whinny and ANNOYING.
Montag the main character is actually name after a paper company, I heard, that's pretty darn cool. He was a very rash character, and at times full of himself but you love him any way.
People aren't allowed to feel bad. Here's a lesson to anybody: Feeling bad is sometimes necessary. You're not living if you don't feel bad once in awhile. In the end, it bite the people's butt. This is what happens when you don't care about nothing:
Spoiler
Not caring about a war and this happens BOOOOOOOOOM!One thing I like about the ending is that there's still hope. It seems that's the only thing left.
Depressing.
I need to stop reading depressing books.
Yep I do.
Really good book, really good.
daivygrl's review against another edition
5.0
this book is one of those terrible, makes you angry, don't want to keep reading kind of books, but it's the one i give the absolute most credit for opening my eyes. it changed me in lots of ways (don't worry i won't bore you with them) and made me evaluate my surrounding world and see it so different from what i accepted it to be. bradbury is amazing.