Fahrenheit 451

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• Recensione libro "Fahrenheit 451″

  Prezzo: € 8,50 Di che cosa parla “Fahrenheit 451” di Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451” è ambientato in un futuro indefinito, ed è la storia di Guy Montag, pompiere di professione. Nel futuro descritto da Ray Bradbury però, i pompieri non sono quelli che ... (read full critics)

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• Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Share

  Given my left-wing dispositions, it's a surprise that I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 yet. But the chance has finally arrived, as a copy was given to me. There are things to be said about this book, and some are good and some are bad. Well, for one thi ... (read full critics)

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  Just began, I felt I couldn't stop reading it.
  Strikingly clairvoyant, and wonderfully written.

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  Cheerflower said on May 1, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing t ... (continue)

  "There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation."

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  Dimitja said on Mar 25, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  This is a fabulous book. I have read it twice and loaned it out many times. I have yet to meet the person who dislikes it.

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  Dave Sanders said on Feb 13, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  1984's "soulmate" book

  This is one of those books you cannot miss in your life. A visionary, troubling and terribly realistic story about the importance of culture and human exchange. I read almost all of it in the subway and I was creeped out by the image of dull people listening to their earphones...

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  BlueBilly said on Feb 6, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  [3.5 stars]

  It's not bad, but also not that good as I anticipated prior reading it. Compared with Zamyatin's We, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a pretty straightforward novel. It's less nuanced in terms of form and characterization. There's less fun, therefore, when I read it since things developed ... (continue)

  [3.5 stars]

  It's not bad, but also not that good as I anticipated prior reading it. Compared with Zamyatin's We, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a pretty straightforward novel. It's less nuanced in terms of form and characterization. There's less fun, therefore, when I read it since things developed in a way that can be expected anyway. I like the third part, though, when the book becomes fast-paced and
  reads like an action-film. That's why I add an extra 0.5 star.

  I think Fahrenheit 451 is written in the trajectory of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Both dystopias share with the anxiety over the rise of popular culture and its possible threat to the higher culture. They also underscore the blindness of the multitude, which is exemplified by people's propensity toward hedonism. Whereas Huxley seems more pessimistic when he lets the
  Savage drown in the orgy of the frenzied mob, Bradbury seems to be more confident about the integrity of culture since there are still those book-people who aim to guard human civilization in the wilderness.

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  yuuyh said on Sep 21, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
  

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  Chiara L'Onironauta said on Feb 25, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• Paperback 192 Pages
• Edition: 50Anniversary Ed
• ISBN-10: 0007181701
• ISBN-13: 9780007181704
• Publisher: Voyager
• Pub date: Aug 02, 2004
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 645 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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