As this is considered a "classic warning" book, I had to read it. Now I've read it.
I did not enjoy this at all. Bradbury's style of writing was like watching a fat ugly woman trying to be sexy doing a pole dance. It was revolting. The story was just another "oh watchout, society will fall apart if we don't keep our freedoms" tale that litters the literary landscape.
The one main flaw in his reasoning that stood out to me was this: a culture and technology that can keep the masses happy and sedated must be led by people who actually DO read and know things. The problem is, those kind of people would not have been able to grow up in the society that Bradbury envisions for this book. Therefore the culture he warns about couldn't exist because the architects of it would have been cut off before they could create it. A circular reasoning mess.
Besides, we have Kindles and Cool-ers and PRS-505's and other ereaders now. And the internet. Books aren't going away.
I did not enjoy this at all. Bradbury's style of writing was like watching a fat ugly woman trying to be sexy doing a pole dance. It was revolting. The story was just another "oh watchout, society will fall apart if we don't keep our freedoms" tale that litters the literary landscape.
The one main flaw in his reasoning that stood out to me was this: a culture and technology that can keep the masses happy and sedated must be led by people who actually DO read and know things. The problem is, those kind of people would not have been able to grow up in the society that Bradbury envisions for this book. Therefore the culture he warns about couldn't exist because the architects of it would have been cut off before they could create it. A circular reasoning mess.
Besides, we have Kindles and Cool-ers and PRS-505's and other ereaders now. And the internet. Books aren't going away.
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