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A review by rayn0n
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury
2.0
A few of the short stories I hadn't read in his other anthologies and I enjoyed, but the re-writes of Fahrenheit 451 were more than a little disappointing. I was expecting more of a conceptual exploration of the characters based on the description I got from the afterword of the original book, but it was really just a worse rewrite of the book (with the obvious exception of "the Fireman" which was, in fact, the predecessor to the novel and is therefore excluded from that assessment).
Was hoping for some unique insight into the characters in Bradbury's exceptional style. Got a Montag whose anger was on the edge of disturbingly competent compared to the Fahrenheit 452 novel, where "I don't know what I'm doing" paired well with his anger and sincerity to make him really relatable. In this version (Long After Midnight) he's just an unhinged entitled sociopath.
Was hoping for some unique insight into the characters in Bradbury's exceptional style. Got a Montag whose anger was on the edge of disturbingly competent compared to the Fahrenheit 452 novel, where "I don't know what I'm doing" paired well with his anger and sincerity to make him really relatable. In this version (Long After Midnight) he's just an unhinged entitled sociopath.