About the book:
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My thoughts:
Fahrenheit 451 was one of this month’s book club choices on the Rick O’Shea Book Club and I had it on my bookshelves so I figured now was as good a time as any to get reading it.
It’s a relatively short book, probably even readable in one sitting, but it took me a couple of days to get through for various reasons.
I didn’t know what to expect going into it. I just remembered something about burning books when I had read about it previously. I have the anniversary edition, pictured above, so I’m going to give some advice. DO NOT READ THE INTRODUCTION! It contains spoilers for the book, which I only found out about AFTER I read it!
I think this slightly spoiled it a little for me because it meant I knew partly what to expect. In saying that, Fahrenheit 451 wasn’t a bad read. But I do think the majority of it went a bit over my head. I don’t tend to read classics, of any description, and this being written years ago meant it didn’t grab me.
I don’t know what I’ve read. And if it wasn’t for Rick I don’t know when I’d have picked it up. I can’t say that I loved it as the majority of it just passed me by. I don’t think that I got it to be honest.
I’m glad I read it though. I think if you like sci-fi/dystopian fiction, then you’ll enjoy this one!
I absolutely loved this book but then I didn’t read the introduction first!
I think if I hadn’t read the intro, I’d have connected to it better! Lesson learned! 😂
I recently bought this book, but I’m worried it will go a little over my head too… Classics and sci-fi tend to do that with me haha
Same here! It’s not a bad book, it just confused me a little I think!
Ahh Intro spoilers… been there
So annoying 😐
That is unfortunate about the intro spoiler. What were they thinking?
Probably that everyone has read it already 🙄
That is a silly assumption.to make.
I used to tivo a lot of movies from TCM. Often, the blurb about the movie would contain spoilers. I was not happy about having these movies spoiled for me!
I know! It’s ridiculous that they get included so often!
Read this at high school years ago, but as I don’t enjoy the genre, I won’t bother reading it again. Seeing it here reminded me of its existence 🙂
😂 I doubt I’ll ever read it again either!
I really enjoyed this book when I read it in high school! I’m sorry that it was ruined for you. 😓
Ah it’s fine, it could have been worse! Just frustrating more than anything else!