I fully admit that I only chose to read this because of TPL’s Keep Toronto Reading program but I enjoyed it more than expected and finished it within a few hours. A dystopian-themed story about book burning that is troubling in its relevance to today’s fast-paced, technology-driven society.

As a classic, this novel has been sitting on the TBR list for ages but I was finally motivated to pick it up by the Vlogbrother's book club. The novel itself is fascinating and terrifying in its image of the future but it is the thoughts on humanity and ideas that are truly the most beautiful part of the work. The characters themselves never reach any significant depth, not even Montag, but Bradbury uses the characters as vehicles for his amazing prose which is thoroughly haunting.

I wil return Fahrenheit 451 on April 8th, 3013.

Great essential read for absolutely anyone. It's one of those books that I'll recommend whenever I can. Makes you think about the passive roles we can take in our lives and in society (i.e. mindless consumerism), and so it will never be outdated. Also loved the afterword by the author, who discusses examples of how this book itself was censored and watered down in various ways (pretty ironic!).

Everyone's saying it's a quick read, but I'm pretty sure I read it too quickly. Bradbury seems prone to almost incessant semi-sensical ranting. "Hysterical was probably spot-on. It fits, though; in the novel, books slowly become illegal by first being censored, abbreviated and condensed, so the joke's on me I guess. People are right that the book's quite thought-provoking though: has anyone else noticed how more and more things have gotten censored on TV Tropes over the years? Even a Wiki isn't immune!

Reads like a good Twilight Zone episode. At first, I thought the story was outdated for our time. Books? You don't need to burn 'em; they're on their way out anyway. But actually, it's about media over-saturation and the quality of thought conveyed by mass media and you know what? That's exactly the age we live in.

I read a lot of science fiction when I was young, including some Bradbury, which I found interesting enough though I never became a fan Recently, 40-some years later, after the publicity around his death, I decided to try this "classic", which I had never read. I didn't like it at all. It seemed nteresting mainly as a window into the culture of 1950s. Which isn't to say it lacked character, but the "poetic" Bradbury style didn't please me, the cultural critique seemed hysterical and incoherent, and the plot doesn't amount to much. Not my thing obviously. Maybe I should have read it when I was 13.

This classic holds up very well.

This is a good choice if you like things like 1984, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Brazil and any other dystopic future book/movie. It's a bit short, I wish it went farther, but at least it is hopeful.

While it was a good and interesting read, the erratic actions of Montag feel contrived and fake. This is distracting and makes the entire novel feel forced.