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If you love books, read this. It will tear your heart out to think of all the ideas in books being set to flame. If you're a slow reader, this will make you want to speed up. If you're a fast reader, this will make you want to speed-read. This books presents a future of little questioning and ultimate control. If you are a bibliophile, this book will stir your soul. I cannot recommend it enough.

Throughout high school, this book was always on the summer reading list. For one reason or another, I never chose to read it. I wish I had taken the time to read this sooner. Fahrenheit 451 now has a spot on my list of favorite books and I have already started recommending it to people.

I greatly enjoyed this book but was surprisingly disappointed by the ending. I don't really know what I was expecting. I felt like the ending was lacking compared to the rest of the story. I also didn't like what happened with Clarisse. She wasn't a great character, but I thought there could have been more of an explanation.

Everyone who loves books should read this one. Read and keep reading in case we're no longer allowed to in the future.

Quite a scary book. 451 degrees is the temp at which paper burns. Quite a terrible thought for anyone that belongs to a club like this! And to think it is true in some countries - and could be in ours if we don't watch out!

I can understand how this would have been intuitive when it was written, but I was expecting more. I really enjoyed Clarice and was sad when she was no longer in the story. It was the only part of the book that held my interest. I think this would have been a good choice for a school assignment, not for anything else. I'm glad that I read the book, but it's not one that I'll ever pick up again or recommend.

I'm not usually a reader of Sci-Fi, but this was an exceptional book; not easy to put down once you start.

My daughter is getting to the reading level where “classics” start to enter the reading list, which has prompted me to pick up some of the classics I never did read while I was in school. You’d have thought that “Fahrenheit 451” would have been on my “read long ago” list, but surprisingly I never did get around to picking it up.

The book itself left me wondering why it’s considered a classic, frankly. It’s a story designed to demonstrate that TV rots your brain, and that books as a repository of human knowledge are crucial to civilization. And... well, maybe that was an important message when the book was written, but in today’s world, it just doesn’t have much that grabs me. Our world is far from losing books---more people read today than in nearly all of history. And while TV certainly does seem to rot your brain, there are plenty of other media (books, too!) that can do the same thing. It’s a classic case of mistaking media format for media content.

The book itself is relatively short (180 pages is nothing compared to today’s novels), and moves at a brisk pace.

3 of 5 stars.