A review by luisasm
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury

4.0

Different than others, because it's not exactly Bradbury. It's his writing of course, which is still great, but it's also a fabricated companion novel. Most of the stories I'd already read in their original collections, but it was interesting to see them all in context. Bradbury is so prolific, you forget that there are certain themes that follow him (did anyone else notice how many times he mentioned Montresor? Almost every story had a reference), and they all seemed to culminate in Fahrenheit 451. The values of literature, of books, of intelligence, of just taking time to pause. It's all a little horrifyingly prescient of times now. Read this maybe not because of the stories, which you can find anywhere, but because it truly gives a little peek into what seemed to be important to Bradbury.