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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

3.86 AVERAGE

aristobats's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book made me feel the numbness, the boredom, the isolation of its main characters in my bones. And all of that was just setting the stage. Masterpiece.

mob_reads's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective 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

psychedelic_urchin's review against another edition

3.0

reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alyssadaffodil's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

niy's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

triangularpascal's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty’, but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when they finally set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it’s too late.

Decades later, this still rings true in the banning of books in the United States, in the restrictions on teaching in the United Kingdom. ‘Those who cannot build will burn’. Sometimes it feels like the world around me is sleeping, like nobody is noticing what is happening. But we must hold on to knowledge, and think critically. What has happened before is happening again.