A review by badcushion
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury

challenging dark fast-paced

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

4.5

The stories in this collection are multiple explorations of the themes of Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451, including two short-story versions of the core of that novel.  As such, this book is really aimed at folks who are deep into Bradbury completism, not just the casual reader - which really is what I am. I love Bradbury, mostly The Halloween Tree and Something Wicked This Way Comes (nobody does autumnal darkness like him). I probably didn’t need to read this collection (and…I may not quite have read the whole thing in great detail), but it’s good and my rating is mainly designed to lure the completists. For the rest of us…you can probably skip any story that feels like you already just read a version of it.  Because you did.  But it was good when you did!