so-so2.5/5 ⭐️ This was much stranger than I remembered it being when I last read it in middle school. Still a worthy read. Thanks for hosting Sarah! #randomclassics
so-soHey friends!! Things got a lil busy last week and then I just honestly didn't feel like like being online much this weekend haha But I'm back for the final section of our #RandomClassic
In the end, this book was just okay for me. It felt like a weird fever dream a lot of the time. Not a lot of explanations, not a lot of character development or background, just people drifting from place to place. I was confused by some things (why did no one ⬇
pickI had to include my water bottle in the photo because it matches the book 😂
I do love this book. I didn‘t remember the ending and I‘m not sure I appreciate it—but I won‘t spoil that here! Bradbury‘s characters and world are thinly but sharply drawn. The vision of a world in which books are illegal because everyone is afraid to think is dark and all too real. When I compare the TV-wall parlor with social media, I want to throw away my phone.
Oh, that‘s why this edition seems to be so much bigger than the tiny book I remember 😂
pickThis is a light pick for me—I got the overall gist of the story, but sometimes struggled with what exactly was going on. Dystopian is not my typical genre, but given its ties to current day issues, I knew I had to read this with the #RandomClassics group. I am glad I read it. #192025 #1953
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Unfortunately, this one is now hitting too close to home.
I feel like I need to start this post by confessing that I really struggle with spelling the world Fahrenheit. Why is the H before the R!?
This is a very strange book. The world-building is so odd. I don't really have any idea of how people actually spend their days or what they do. There was a little bit of discussion at the end of the last post, that while most dystopian novels are speaking against a type of government overreach, in some ⬇
(thru part 1) What an intriguing beginning! This section felt slow, yet weirdly addictive. I definitely wanted to find out more about this culture and what is happening, and found Beatty's “lecture“ to be very interesting. What do you think so far? What do you think of Guy as a character? What do you think happened to Clarisse?
I think I've always thought of this one, Brave New World, and 1984, as being the “classic“ dystopian novels. Are ⬇
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August's #RandomClassic is Fahrenheit 451. l've never read this one and honestly know very little about it, so l am going in almost completely blind.
The book is divided into three parts, so rather than following a chapter a day, we'll be reading one part per week. Since the 1st is on a Thursday, I'll try to post discussion posts on August 8, 15, and 22.
August's #RandomClassic is Fahrenheit 451. I've never read this one and honestly know very little about it, so I am going in almost completely blind. The book is divided into three parts, so rather than following a chapter a day, we'll be reading one part per week. Since the 1st is on a Thursday, I'll try to post discussion posts on August 8, 15, and 22.
As usual, I'm tagging my master list for this group. Please let me know if you'd ⬇
The banned books room @ Harvey‘s Tales, Geneva IL
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” ― Ray Bradbury
pickMy plan for my reading this year was to read more diverse and thought provoking books ,this book was very much that.This is speculative fiction,Bradbury tells a tale of what the future would look like without books,how as a society we let it happen it shows us how books might not give us all the answers but makes us ask the questions,they challenge you and make you think.#joyousjanuary
Book 2 of #readawya2024
pickFinally read this classic while audio-crocheting this evening.
It was written in the 50s but is still pertinent today.
I'm glad to know the story of "Fahrenheit 451."
For all the librarians under siege and all of us. Truffaut directing Fahrenheit 451.
Keep going!
I started today the tagged book, I would like to finish it within monday... I really hope so!
pickReally interesting book who‘s premise is still super relevant today.. book has some really good social commentary and a lot to say about knowledge can survive in the modern world. Overall can see why this has been considered a classic for so long
pickMy sister recommended this book and told me I had to listen to the Tim Robbins audiobook version. She said “he acted the shit out of it”. I completely agree. I didn‘t know much about this book except the obvious burning books part and that it‘s a banned book. It was an intense book and it‘s shocking how much of the future Ray Bradbury got right. It‘s shocking that he wrote this in the 50‘s. It makes me want to unplug completely. Glad I read it.
pickIt was on my TBR list for a long long time but I could not get a copy of it. I enjoyed it and it is very very important novel. I am desprate to know what happend before and aftere this story.
#readtheclassic
I'm feeling a little guilty about listening to this audiobook with earbuds... my own Seashells...
My 2nd book narrated by Tim Robbins & although I do really like him, I'm not loving his narration of this. Gatsby was okay but this isn't great.
Check out Meredith‘s book recommendation on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday. She is really getting into the Banned Book theme of this season. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-fahrenheit-451
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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
Crossed off another goal for #SuperSeptember
Was kind of disappointed with this one 🌟 2.5/5
My goals for the #readathon are:
◇Finish Humans of New York ✅️
◇Finish Fahrenheit 451 ✅️
◇Finish Cerulean Sea 🙄🥴 (a year+ later)
◇Start and finish 1984
◇Make progress in The Goblet of Fire Illustrated
@Andrew65 #classics #bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks #bannedbook
"Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumours; the world is starving, but we're well-fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?"
"He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself like a tallow skin ... He was not happy. He was not happy ... He wore his happiness like a mask." ?
"It was a pleasure to burn."?
Is it, Ray? Is it though? I don't feckin' think so! I'm melting here!?️?
We're at the water park - kid's paddling pool in the back garden, iced Bloody Mary in easy reach ?? ? Thinking of this first line while sweltering reminded me I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 for a couple of decades, so squeezing it in.
pickOkay, I'm done spamming my feed with quotes from this remarkable classic. Accessible too, given the page count. A good chunk of this edition is actually scholarship on the story, and I'm still thinking through my own thoughts; will leave other 'takes' for a second read at some point in the future. For everything it says, (not as dated as I thought it would be), I'm so very glad this book exists.
"...hoped that some day our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we're allotted a little space in earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big." ???
"The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine or library. DO YOUR OWN BIT OF SAVING, AND IF YOU DROWN, AT LEAST DIE KNOWING YOU WERE HEADED FOR SHORE." ??
"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."
"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that were once in books...The magic is only in what books say..."
"...What a shame if that's all it can ever know."
Honestly forgot there was any robotic being in this book...of course I'm starting to think I never actually finished it the first time for how little I remember it...
Le sens de la vue est étroitement rapproché de toute lecture, et particulièrement de ce livre, étant donné la précision de la description visuelle des évènements. L'odorat a aussi été stimulé chez moi à cause des produits combustibles utilisés pour brûler les livres décrits dans l'ouvrage. Finalement, le toucher fait également partie de mon expérience de lecture, à cause de la sensation du livre dans les mains et des pages tournées.
pickI haven't read this since high school. My local library is starting a new book club, Rebellious Reads, and this is the first banned book we will be discussing.
Reading this as an adult, and especially with the current state of things in our world, really opened my eyes and made me see this book in a completely new light.
Book Club meets on Monday and I think there will be a great discussion about this classic, timely read.
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pickBeen listening to the audiobook while I‘m studying and forgot how good this book was. I haven‘t read it since elementary school! Always a pick
so-soFinally got around to reading this one folks, & it's...OK. I wasn't blown away by it as I found the characters all a bit hard to like or empathise with. The female characters especially are very thinly drawn, & there's quite a bit of casual cruelty (treatment of animals, etc). To me, the author is trying to say a lot about censorship, apathy, & the dumbing down of standards, but it gets lost in the overly florid writing style. 2.5⭐
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As Neil Gaiman says in his introduction, “Fahrenheit 451” is a book about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people. Initially while reading through this book, I didn‘t quite grasp the concepts that Bradbury presents but looking back the book makes more sense and resonates with me. I enjoyed the theme and Bradbury was truly ahead of his time with “Fahrenheit 451”.
“Ideas—written ideas—are special. They are the way we transmit our stories and our thoughts from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human. And fiction gives us empathy; it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
- Neil Gaiman; Introduction
“ I don‘t talk things, sir,” said Faber. “I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I‘m alive.”
- Ray Bradbury
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