Hi guys.
So, I have finished Fahrenheit 451.
I swear, I read this book before, but apparently,
I have not.
So, I bought the 60th anniversary edition.
It comes with commentary at the end, which
is a good 1/3 of the book.
This is all commentary.
Yeah.
So, Fahrenheit 451, when I bought this book,
all I knew about it was that it was a book
about burning books.
But that is not what this book is about.
if you ask me, this book is about the way
society wants to be led.
We value entertainment more than we value
education or knowledge or having to work to
find things out ourselves.
So, in here, it's in the future.
We have the firemen who come and burn books
and they are basically putting out, extinguishing,
the knowledge base of people and letting the
government lead them.
We have entertainment TV's that are like,
in the walls.
And it kind of replaces human interaction.
i really liked this book.
I think this is a very important book to read,
especially with the climate that we're in
now.
We follow Montag who is a fireman who starts
to question why he's doing what he's doing
and as he's questioning why he's doing what
he's doing, people, his other firemen are
kind of out to get him.
This book shows how even though we can be
led as people, as a whole, can be led certain
ways by government, by societal standards,
it's okay to go against that even if you become
an outcast.
This also shows how things are cyclical.
So, I don't want to give away too much of
the book.
I know a lot of people have read this but
I'm sure there are plenty of people that haven't.
But everything goes in cycles.
And it's very important to keep information
fluid so you can go and learn from your mistakes
and that's not what they think about here.
They think knowledge is dangerous.
There's also a movie.
I have not watched the movie.
I think i've watched about 8 minutes of the
movie with Michael B Jordan and I heard that
the movie was extremely different from the
book.
In the 8 minutes that I watched it it was.
So I haven't watched it yet.
But once I do watch it I will let you guys
know how I think it compares to the book.
Now, we all know the books are 9 times out
of 10 better than the movies.
So, yeah.
I really enjoyed Fahrenheit 451.
I am really a Ray Bradbury fan to begin with.
A lot of people criticize this book, saying
that the writing was too simplistic.
And I can see that.
In some places it is simplistic but in some
places it is definitely not.
In some places it's very lyrical and poetic.
I understand a lot of people don't like this
book, saying that the whole premise of it
is dumb and it doesn't make sense.
And I completely disagree with that.
I think that, especially now, with what's
going on in the media, we're definitely being
, tried to being, led to, our attention in
certain directions so we're paying attention
to other things.
And that's exactly where this starts in this
book.
And you can see, even though it's extreme,
you can see how we can get from here to there.
So yeah.
If anybody else has read Fahrenheit 451 let
me know what you think about it.
Oh. before you ask, I didn't read any of the
commentary at the end.
I just, i didn't care for it.
So, if anybody else has read it let me know.
If you've seen the movie let me know what
you think of it compared to the book.
