fruity_flavor 's review for:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

2.5

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

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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.