Fahrenheit 451

Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Published: Originally 1953, Kindle edition in 2013
Genre: Dystopia
Pages: 243 on the Kindle, with plenty of essays and such




Oh, now this was a scary dystopia! And not just because of books being burned! Our main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman in a large city. But the firemen of his world do not put out fires: they start them. They burn books that are illegal, books that are considered dangerous. And that's all of them. They make people think, make them worry, fill their heads with thoughts, and that's not a good thing.

Montag's wife, like most people, sits at home, watching her 'family' on the three wall-televisions in their living-room. Montag is a good fireman, but having seen books burn and the reactions of their owners first-hand, he has become curious to find out just what's in the illegal things.


Fahrenheit 451 was short, a quick one to read, but one of those books that doesn't leave your head quite as fast. It hasn't -at least yet- haunted me as badly as 1984 did, but it's... scary how real life is starting to resemble this fiction. We're not burning books yet, but considering how much just this one has been banned here and there, chopped and altered even these days, well, feels like we're not far off!



   It was a pleasure to burn.