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viryr's review against another edition
5.0
Una lectura corta y atrapante, con ésta concluyo la trilogía universal de distopia la base de todas las distopías más resientes.
Me sorprende y entristece que la realidad es muy parecida a 1984, Mundo Feliz o a Fahrenheit 451, al igual que en este último hay censura de lo que leemos cada año hay menos lectores y hay menos calidad en la literatura, no se queman los libros, pero si manipulan nuestros gustos con medios como la tv, redes sociales (esto es lo que en Fahrenheit 451 son esas pantallas). Me gusta que Montag despierta y ve como es en realidad la realidad. Como son vistos lo que esa despiertos en un mundo donde cómo piensas, actúas y sueñas está mal (es la realidad las personas que son de mente abierta y conscientes son aislados, criticados, juzgados, etc. cuando son los que están bien).
Un libro que abre la mente, corto y con una prosa muy buena.
"Vivimos en una época en la que las flores intentan vivir de las flores, en lugar de crecer con buena lluvia y lluvia. marga negra"
“Debe haber algo en los libros, algo que no podemos imaginar, que hace que una mujer se quede en una casa en llamas; debe haber algo allí. No te quedas por nada”
"Si ocultas tu ignorancia, nadie te golpeará y nunca aprenderás"
“Todo el mundo debe dejar algo cuando muere, decía mi abuelo. Un niño o un libro o un cuadro o una casa o una pared construida o un par de zapatos hechos. O un jardín plantado. Algo que tu mano tocó de alguna manera para que tu alma tenga un lugar adonde ir cuando mueras, y cuando la gente mire ese árbol o esa flor que plantaste, tú estás allí.
No importa lo que hagas, dijo, siempre y cuando cambies algo de cómo era antes de tocarlo a algo que sea como tú después de tomarlo. tus manos lejos. La diferencia entre el hombre que simplemente corta el césped y un verdadero jardinero está en el tacto, afirmó. Era como si el cortador de césped no estuviera allí; el jardinero estará allí toda la vida”.
Me sorprende y entristece que la realidad es muy parecida a 1984, Mundo Feliz o a Fahrenheit 451, al igual que en este último hay censura de lo que leemos cada año hay menos lectores y hay menos calidad en la literatura, no se queman los libros, pero si manipulan nuestros gustos con medios como la tv, redes sociales (esto es lo que en Fahrenheit 451 son esas pantallas). Me gusta que Montag despierta y ve como es en realidad la realidad. Como son vistos lo que esa despiertos en un mundo donde cómo piensas, actúas y sueñas está mal (es la realidad las personas que son de mente abierta y conscientes son aislados, criticados, juzgados, etc. cuando son los que están bien).
Un libro que abre la mente, corto y con una prosa muy buena.
"Vivimos en una época en la que las flores intentan vivir de las flores, en lugar de crecer con buena lluvia y lluvia. marga negra"
“Debe haber algo en los libros, algo que no podemos imaginar, que hace que una mujer se quede en una casa en llamas; debe haber algo allí. No te quedas por nada”
"Si ocultas tu ignorancia, nadie te golpeará y nunca aprenderás"
“Todo el mundo debe dejar algo cuando muere, decía mi abuelo. Un niño o un libro o un cuadro o una casa o una pared construida o un par de zapatos hechos. O un jardín plantado. Algo que tu mano tocó de alguna manera para que tu alma tenga un lugar adonde ir cuando mueras, y cuando la gente mire ese árbol o esa flor que plantaste, tú estás allí.
No importa lo que hagas, dijo, siempre y cuando cambies algo de cómo era antes de tocarlo a algo que sea como tú después de tomarlo. tus manos lejos. La diferencia entre el hombre que simplemente corta el césped y un verdadero jardinero está en el tacto, afirmó. Era como si el cortador de césped no estuviera allí; el jardinero estará allí toda la vida”.
isabel_inspace's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
thotfitzgerald's review against another edition
4.0
Bradbury is one of my favourite writers of all time. His style, thoughts, and imagination are unmatched by anything I've read. However, I am not a fan of Fahrenheit 451.
For all his genius, and the genius of this concept, I did not feel that Bradbury succeeded in truly fleshing out this story. It was not finished, left me wanting, and was lacking much that could have made the WORLD of Fahrenheit 451 as memorable and distinct as the WORLD of Orwells 1984. While both are classics, required reads, and world changing, I feel that it's the general concept of Fahrenheit 451 that is remembered where as every detail of Orwells world fits together and is remembered.
While I would personally give it a three star rating, I'm giving it four out of respect for Bradbury and the impact this book has had.
For all his genius, and the genius of this concept, I did not feel that Bradbury succeeded in truly fleshing out this story. It was not finished, left me wanting, and was lacking much that could have made the WORLD of Fahrenheit 451 as memorable and distinct as the WORLD of Orwells 1984. While both are classics, required reads, and world changing, I feel that it's the general concept of Fahrenheit 451 that is remembered where as every detail of Orwells world fits together and is remembered.
While I would personally give it a three star rating, I'm giving it four out of respect for Bradbury and the impact this book has had.
grxce_grxce's review against another edition
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
pavanis93's review against another edition
5.0
"We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me."
----- Such amazingly written lines! -----
This book is a whole new level of fiction, in my opinion. The title signifies the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. Absolutely loved the simplicity and smoothness in writing while at the same time crisply portraying all kinds of emotions involved in the story. It's a dystopian story about a country in which firemen set fires by burning all of people's books. They burn down houses and even people in their mission. It's a shocking situation that suppresses the freedom of expression and gaining knowledge out-rightly. This is a tale of one such fireman meeting a young girl one day and coming to the realization of how horrifying people and their affairs have become, and his yearning to escape it.
"I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?"
----- Such amazingly written lines! -----
This book is a whole new level of fiction, in my opinion. The title signifies the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. Absolutely loved the simplicity and smoothness in writing while at the same time crisply portraying all kinds of emotions involved in the story. It's a dystopian story about a country in which firemen set fires by burning all of people's books. They burn down houses and even people in their mission. It's a shocking situation that suppresses the freedom of expression and gaining knowledge out-rightly. This is a tale of one such fireman meeting a young girl one day and coming to the realization of how horrifying people and their affairs have become, and his yearning to escape it.
"I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?"
eryk_walczak's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
5.0
hansje501's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
chasityholcomb's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
carlaabra's review against another edition
4.0
Wow. The last 30 pages totally justify the rest of the book for me. I also appreciated the Afterword and the Coda. Bradbury’s writing style isn’t my favorite but damn if he doesn’t have a unique style. The ‘parlor family’ will be sticking with me for a while.
Grandfather’s been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you’d find the big ridges of his thumbprint.
We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s where we’ll win out in the long run. And someday we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.
kayco's review against another edition
4.0
I can’t believe they had us read this book in middle school! I remembered nothing of it back then other than they burned books so I had to go back and really read it once in my adult life. The beginning caught me off guard when I figured out Mildred was ODing. How did they have 11-12 year olds reading this??? But it turned out really good and I’m glad I read it. Kinda dramatic in the detail of every little thing but it turned out ok