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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Why didn’t I read this sooner?
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
in a dystopian world where reading books is illegal, guy montag is a firefighter, where far from putting out fires, he burns books and the houses (and people) of those who owned them.
yall- this book was so boring😭 i know it’s a classic, but it was such a slog to get through and i found it hard to connect with any of the characters which only
made it worse.
the concepts of the book are fascinating, and i found the end to be the best part. it’s our job to remember and to not repeat past mistakes. books and other ways of cataloging our history are how we honor the mistakes made and vow to do better. that part of the book was solid! it was good. but goddamn was jt such a small portion.
while the ideas and concept were intriguing and terrifyingly true, they are the only developed parts of this novel. the characters are a mess and so is the plot. guy is a piece of paper flapping in the wind, he was bland and oh so boring to watch. no surprise, but i found the women to be the most compelling part of this book. there’s clarisse, who is the one who inspires guy to break out of the social mold and then disappears and killed off page. WHY? she was compelling! to not even see her death happen is a damn shame and a miss because of what it could do!! and also the way guy talked about her was creepy as fuck. she’s 16! ur 30! guy’s wife mildred is heavily involved in the use of technology used to pacify the population, with her own fake family in the tv. we also skip over the fact that she overdoses in the beginning of the book? it’s never mentioned again?? her and guy’s relationship was complex and messy and could have been used to show a person who stays firmly stuck in fantasy and one who is breaking free, but they’re not. it pisses me off because the potential was there!!
i listened to the audiobook and it wasn’t my fav, and even though it was five hours it felt like twenty four. overall it was a awful to read, and while again, the concepts are interesting, the book was flat as fuck. for a book about the burning of books and literature as a means of control, it didn’t expand on this in what felt satisfactory to me. womp womp.
but maybe i just missed that part of the audiobook because i didn’t listen while contemplating dnf’ing for the tenth time.
we’ll never know.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Finally got around to reading this classic, and it’s absolutely brilliant. Taking place in a future not far from ours, it’s a crime to own books, and if you’re discovered doing so, firemen will come to your home and burn it all down. What I took away from this book was assurance of something I’m seeing all too clearly these days: a world without books is a world without empathy. You can’t understand a person’s pain if you don’t understand their story. Ray Bradbury was a truly gifted writer who could see beyond his time.
Holds up really well. Prescient and interesting mirror for modern society. I’ll never think about the Boston Dynamics robot dog the same way again. Beautifully-written passages
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
tense
slow-paced
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
BOOK NOTES:
A dystopian world where books are banned
Books can drive as a tool to spread ideas
In this world gov wants to control everyone by limiting the spread of ideas.
People are brainwashed through TV and mind numbed with no revolutionary ideas that could be dangerous - conformity and heterogeneity in thinking is the goal
451 F temperature at which paper burns
TV Family is more real to wife - brainwashed into a set of ideals
Openly rebelling against world order is dangerous but radical change is required
Fire is a symbol of destruction, rebellion and unity in the book
Authorities cook up fake narratives to show their power and instill fear
Technology used as propaganda to subvert people in a totalitarian regime
A world without books is a world devoid of emotion
Theme of censorship through burning is key
Reflects stigma against literature and independent thinking during MCarthy era
Mindless media is preventing people from consuming intellectual content
A dystopian world where books are banned
Books can drive as a tool to spread ideas
In this world gov wants to control everyone by limiting the spread of ideas.
People are brainwashed through TV and mind numbed with no revolutionary ideas that could be dangerous - conformity and heterogeneity in thinking is the goal
451 F temperature at which paper burns
TV Family is more real to wife - brainwashed into a set of ideals
Openly rebelling against world order is dangerous but radical change is required
Fire is a symbol of destruction, rebellion and unity in the book
Authorities cook up fake narratives to show their power and instill fear
Technology used as propaganda to subvert people in a totalitarian regime
A world without books is a world devoid of emotion
Theme of censorship through burning is key
Reflects stigma against literature and independent thinking during MCarthy era
Mindless media is preventing people from consuming intellectual content