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  • Voto: 7.5/10

    L’ho riletto a distanza di molti anni, e stavolta in inglese. Non me lo ricordavo scritto cosi’ bene.

    Impressionanti le descrizioni della TV, e della guerra: scritte quasi sessant’anni fa, sono risultate assolutamente profetiche.

    La cosa che più mi ha colpito, e che ... Continue

    Voto: 7.5/10

    L’ho riletto a distanza di molti anni, e stavolta in inglese. Non me lo ricordavo scritto cosi’ bene.

    Impressionanti le descrizioni della TV, e della guerra: scritte quasi sessant’anni fa, sono risultate assolutamente profetiche.

    La cosa che più mi ha colpito, e che non ricordavo, è il perché si è smesso di leggere: non fu il governo a proibire la lettura contro la volontà dei cittadini. Al contrario: furono i cittadini a smettere di leggere, a rifiutare le difficoltà e le domande insite nei libri, e ad applaudire ai primi roghi.

    Da rifletterci un bel po’ su.

    

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• ― Demonio Pellegrino said on Aug 11, 2009 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 12, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • 50th Anniversary Edition

    

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  • Books on Fire

  • Another interesting "futuristic" novel that has its timeless value. It is all about media control. People is imposed with the selective knowledge to deprive their thinking.

    

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• ― artie said on Jan 29, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Book Burning-Eek!

  • If you like "the giver" and "1984" you'll get this book. Not as good as those two, but the same concept. This is in a time where firemen burn books to keep people under control. They don't have anything else to burn since everything is fireproof.

    

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• ― Sssdawna said on Dec 10, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Must read classic!

  • I think that everyone should read this book at least once. If not, several times. This is in my top 5 favorite books of all-time!

    

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• ― Charleighh said on Nov 26, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.

Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!

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