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Reveiw: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – Something has to stop burning

Novel: Dystopia, Sci-fi. Contains drugs, obscenity, adult situations, violence, and disturbing imagery. (This review contains minor spoilers) I read this book as a summer project, and I was permanently changed. It is my all-time favorite book and proba bly will remain so for quite some time. I can remember so many great scenes from it, one of the things that Ray Bradbury is great at is his ability to set a scene. He can capture your imagination and use it to form a vibrant and engrossing atmosphere. I remember how many times per day I would read some because I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. Our protagonist is Guy Montag, a fireman. But of course his job isn't to put out fires, instead, he and a team of other men, are hired by the government to burst into homes with books in them, and burn all the books to ashes. The houses of this not too distant future are fireproof, so the firemen may cover all the books in kerosene and light them on fire without destroyi...