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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

13 reviews

squishy_bee's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

It's a very quotable book, but I do find it lacks nuance sometimes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Car accident, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.75

Bradbury clearly has a beautiful writing style. The beginning of this book is breathtaking—I wish Clarisse had appeared more often throughout the rest of the book. Despite the book being obviously dated, I do think some aspects of his dystopian world were surprisingly parallel to our present. For some people to see that, of course, they’d need to think about it critically, something that can be lacking in our insular world (Bradbury definitely got that one right). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, Abortion, and War

balamaqab's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

taliabird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Police brutality

Minor: Child death and War

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I enjoyed the writing style a lot. The visual symbolism throughout was easy to paint a picture, and the way the words flowed was satisfying. But the actual message felt pretentious, considering the only two prominent women in this are a manic pixie dream girl (a teenager at that) and a ditzy housewife? No thanks.

How do you get so empty? He wondered. Who takes it out of you? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

m_h_top's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

This book was wonderful. The writing style is so beautiful, and the message is really important. If you don't like slower books, I may not recommend it, but Fahrenheit 451 is so well written that maybe it's pacing doesn't matter in the end.
Some great quotes: 
- "Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore." (Pg 82)
- "You sound so very old." "Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afriad of children my own age." (27)
- "He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty." (138) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Addiction, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

unoriginalinspiration's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

apollo_grace's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

rory_john14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

amberkaylynn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Sexism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail