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Gonz

Gonz

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Fahrenheit 451....51 years old & Ray Bradbury fortells today.

Who's read it in the last decade? My wife & I both read it years & years ago. Vague recollections at best. She's reading it again right now & there are so many passages that reflect what is happening in our world, today. I can'r wait until she's done so I can have at it.

Good political book. The book burnings get all the press but it is so much deeper than that. Go, find a copy (youur local library?) & spend a few hours reinvesting yourself into mass.
 
i've read that...and for the life of me i can't recollect a single thing from it :ashamed: thanks for the recommend....i'll probably reread it now.
 
I'm buried under a stack of Asimov right now. To put it in the list would make it ..hmm... about 35th. I'll get to it in about 8 years.
 
I read it in 7th grade. Recollections are vague. But when Paso Robles opened up its new library in 1995, Bradbury was the guest of honor.
 
Like many I read it years ago (over 15 yrs ago).........think it's time it got a second airing tho'

*adds to shopping list*
 
I'll pop by the bookstore & pick up a copy, sounds interesting enough. Dunno when I'll eventually get to it though, I have a to read pile a mile high at the mo'.
 
I reread once in a while. I've always found things in it pertinent to whatever time I read it. It's certainly cogent in American now. So is 1984.
 
i was thinking of making the comparison the in Farenheit they didnt discourage thought only reading. 1984 you could only have 3 thuoghts any others were illegal
 
freako104 said:
i was thinking of making the comparison the in Farenheit they didnt discourage thought only reading.
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re-read it. you missed the point
 
Read it, and loved it.

1984, also read it, and loved it

if you like those, pick up a copy of animal farm as well (George Orwell)
 
Half way thru it & it makes me want to puke. The actions foretold by Bradbury, over 50 years ago, to actions currently being witnessed is as frightening as anyting I can recall. I had no clue when I first read this how deep it is.
 
Gonz said:
Half way thru it & it makes me want to puke. The actions foretold by Bradbury, over 50 years ago, to actions currently being witnessed is as frightening as anyting I can recall. I had no clue when I first read this how deep it is.
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I've read it...several times...as well as 1984. I've also read "A Clockwork Orange"...which also gives you the chills...
 
the book for a Clockwork Orange was so much better than the movie was. I think what scared me was how the treatment worked too well. and then he goes back to his old ways.
 
freako104 said:
the book for a Clockwork Orange was so much better than the movie was. I think what scared me was how the treatment worked too well. and then he goes back to his old ways.
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To me, the foreboding of the book was the most chilling part...Look at society when the book was written, and now. Gangs, drugs, rapes, and murders are all too commonplace. The 'mind-control' now seems on the verge of occurring just because the rest of the book is panning out...
 
I ahd never considered that part of it. and technically they didnt control his mind. its called Classical Conditioning what they did. they used a way to make it feel bad(the drug combined wiht the violence made him think violence=makes me ill). but now that you do mention that it is scary
 
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