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arielmagicesi 's review for:
Fahrenheit 451
by Maribel Cruzado, Ray Bradbury
Intense and terrifying, and terrifyingly relevant today. While the book is obviously firmly rooted in a sort of retrofuturism via being written in the 1950s, it is simply a 1950s-culture veneer to a disturbingly accurate vision of certain elements of the modern world: the insistence on shortening all media, the backlash against nuance, speed and dashed attention span being used to numb and erase, governments relying on pacified populaces to ignore their increasing terrible violence, schools becoming less focused on learning anything at all, the study of the humanities being wiped out, etc. I had some nitpicks about certain elements of the book that led me to remove one star in my rating- namely the complete laser-focus on men's perspective, and the flattening of women into either jabbering mindless nags or floaty fridged manic pixie dream girls. But as I always say, if I only read books where the author treats people like me (in this case, women) as human beings, I wouldn't read anything. And this was certainly worth reading, although I'm not gonna be able to watch any TV for like a week without freaking out lol.