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A review by pkiwi
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3.0
I have no idea how to rate this book, or what to think about it. I'm completely ambivalent about it. As soon as I finished it I felt I hadn't understood it at all and must go back to find all the things I missed.
On one hand, I feel it's very simplistic, the story really doesn't entail much, and the prose ranges from purple to downright ecstatic monologue on the writers part.
But on the other hand, the side that's really nudging me to read it again, I feel I missed a very important layer - several really. There's the style, and the story, and the philosophy, and the horribly unlike-able main character and something is horribly off. I can't find it a bad book, not yet, not until I finally understand the hidden layers. And I think that's precisely why it's probably a good book, albeit a very frustrating one.
On one hand, I feel it's very simplistic, the story really doesn't entail much, and the prose ranges from purple to downright ecstatic monologue on the writers part.
But on the other hand, the side that's really nudging me to read it again, I feel I missed a very important layer - several really. There's the style, and the story, and the philosophy, and the horribly unlike-able main character and something is horribly off. I can't find it a bad book, not yet, not until I finally understand the hidden layers. And I think that's precisely why it's probably a good book, albeit a very frustrating one.