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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I know I've said this WAY too many times, but this is legit. Words cannot describe this book. To put it simply, it is absolutely phenomenal and beautiful. All of those details in the story, and those deep thoughts were it gets you thinking. What if its true? This book is set in the future, (somewhere after 2022) and books are illegal to keep or read. It said "This book has pores. It has features This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That's my definition, anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail The good writers touch life often The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leaver her for the flies. So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam." The part where it says the comfortable people only want poreless books? It's kind of...present day. Have you seen books lately? They are all about forbidden love and unnecessary supernatural stuff. Will this happen to us? In the future? Who knows? Only time will tell. Fahrenheit 451 is now my most favorite book. Top of my list. Please read! It's astounding, and it filled me with so much emotions, and was astounding. I love, love, love this book.

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