Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

This book is remarkable in its future outlook. It was written many years ago projecting around the time of our day. The way he wrote the book a reader might think he had seen forward to our time and seen the iPOD, and LCD televisions.

The story starts on the premise that it has become against the law to own and read books. For many reasons that will be presented this futuristic society simplified things and got rid of radical ideas and anything that might be presented in books that wouldn’t allow things to be nice and simple.

Fireman in this book are people that burn books rather than put out fires (they are of course fire proof at this time). Guy the main character is a fireman who begins to wonder what books might have to say when a lady the fireman encounters chooses to be burned with her books rather than live without them. This along with other experiences starts Guy on a whirlwind trip to discover what might be really going on and sends him to places and actions he had never considered in his apparently “perfect world.”

This book is one that people need to read at least once to begin to understand where choices made by our society might take us, and who we could become because of them.

Definitely a classic book of our time!

Rating 4/5.

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