Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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(Mass Market Paperback - REISSUE)

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  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Pub. Date: August 1987
  • ISBN-13: 9780345342966
  • Sales Rank: 304
  • 179pp
  • Edition Description: REISSUE
 
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Synopsis

Fahrenheit 451 ofrece la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el país de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza...
La novela más célebre de Ray Bradbury, maestro de la ficción científica.

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First published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero, a book burner, suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas that cry out silently when put to the torch.

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A veteran sci-fi author with side talents for poetry, plays and screenwriting, Ray Bradbury has had a long career of provoking thought and a compelling uneasiness in generations of readers. But rather than create worlds made for escape, Bradbury refracts our own foibles through otherworldly prisms.

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Farenheit 451 was soo boringby Chelli_Belli326

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July 01, 2009: in my opinion F. 451 was completely boring!! There was nothing in it to compell me to keep reading it. I found that if you want to read this book you should a dictionary on your side at all times. My friends and i read it together and we all thought the book was way to hard to read. Dont get me wrong i like challenges, however this book had me totally confused from begininng to end. The only real thing that i liked about it was that someone took a stand against the lying gov't. the plot was way to hard to swallow and there was too many things to pick up on. Through out the entire book i found it was way toon hard to figure out what was going on. Also, when your reading you never know whether the author is talking in a narritive or if he's speaking in a metaphor. i wouldnt reccomend this book to anyone who just thinks outside the box.... This book is for people who think WAYYYYY out the box for sure!!! However, if you do decide to read this book i recommend reading gathering blue after. it's almost like the aftermath of the war that occurs in the book.

I Also Recommend: The October Country, Gathering Blue, The Illustrated Man.

best of required readingsby Scafe88

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June 30, 2009: There are a lot of books teens are required to read in high school that seem boring and just too old-fashioned. This required reading is fantastic. It has themes prevelant today but is set in an alternate universe. It's got action, it's thrilling, and the writing style is detailed, yet easy to follow.

I Also Recommend: Brave New World, 1984.


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