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Science fiction-roman om et fremtidssamfund, hvor bøger brændes. "Brandmanden" Montag slutter sig til bogfolket, en udstødt gruppe, hvor hver prøver at huske en bestemt bog.
readafew: Both books are about keeping the people in control and ignorant.
BookshelfMonstrosity: A man's romance-inspired defiance of menacing, repressive governments in bleak futures are the themes of these compelling novels. Control of language and monitors that both broadcast to and spy on people are key motifs. Both are dramatic, haunting, and thought-provoking.… (mere)
grizzly.anderson: A great study of how Bradbury came to write Fahrenheit 451 as a progress through his own short stories, letters and drafts. A similar collection of stories but without some of the other material is also available as "A Pleasure To Burn"
lquilter: "A Gift Upon the Shore" is a post-apocalyptic world; some people seek to preserve books and knowledge, but they are seen as a danger to others. Beautifully written.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 had me completely hooked from start to finish. I totally understand why it's considered a classic that everyone should read.
Bradbury's storytelling is incredible. It's not just a story; it feels like a glimpse into a future that's scarily believable. In a world dominated by technology and where books are banned, it delivers some seriously important messages. It's like a wake-up call, reminding us to pay attention to the direction our society is heading. As technology becomes more advanced, the themes in this book become even more relevant. ( )
A classic to be sure, but Bradbury's main theme, the dissolution of knowledge and society as a result of new technology) is as old as technology itself. I'm sure there's some ancient philosopher that condemned society when the dispersal of knowledge shifted from spoken to written.
One final comment: the irony was not lost on me that I was listening to this on wireless earbuds, just as Millie (the "little seashells in her ears) was the night she took too many pills and throughout the rest of the book. ( )
This is a book that tries to show you how important are books in our world and make you read more. Completely fails doing so, because the story is stale and gets boring very fast, same goes for the characters. If this was your first book that you read, I doubt you will want to read more books afterwards. If we take in consideration that this book was written in a short period of time, it's quite good but compared to other dystopias, it's not that good. ( )
"Fahrenheit 451" es una obra maestra que nos lleva a un mundo distópico donde los libros están prohibidos y el pensamiento crítico es reprimido. Con una prosa vibrante, Ray Bradbury nos presenta una historia que despierta la conciencia y nos hace reflexionar sobre la importancia de la libertad de expresión y el poder transformador de la literatura. Es una lectura imprescindible que sigue siendo relevante en la sociedad actual. ( )
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"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." — Juan Ramón Jiménez
FAHRENHEIT 451: the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns
Tilegnelse
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This one, with gratitude, is for Don Congdon
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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Montag gazed beyond them to the wall with the typed lists of a million forbidden books.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, 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.
But that's the wonderful things about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.
I'm afraid of children my own age. they kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my firends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid. My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn't kill each other. But that was a long time ago when they had things different. They believed in responsibility, my uncle says. Do you know, I'm responsible. I was spanked when I needed it, years ago. And I do all the shopping and housecleaning by hand.
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.
The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not. No, no, it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when I say all this.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more "literary" you are. That's my definition, anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often.
Most of us can't rush around talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
"Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal."
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Science fiction-roman om et fremtidssamfund, hvor bøger brændes. "Brandmanden" Montag slutter sig til bogfolket, en udstødt gruppe, hvor hver prøver at huske en bestemt bog.
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Bradbury's storytelling is incredible. It's not just a story; it feels like a glimpse into a future that's scarily believable. In a world dominated by technology and where books are banned, it delivers some seriously important messages. It's like a wake-up call, reminding us to pay attention to the direction our society is heading. As technology becomes more advanced, the themes in this book become even more relevant. (