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A review by joshbriggs
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5.0
eh, you probably don't need my review here, but you're getting it anyway. I should've finished reading this in the 7th grade when I started it. I would've been a monumentally improved person. But instead, I chose Star Wars and Aliens Vs. Predator novelizations. So, anyway, I'm going to sum up the importance of this brief, long-overdue experience in a long-form quote:
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies... A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul had somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do... so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching... The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies... A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul had somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do... so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching... The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."