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Book Review of Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
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The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!