I bought this on 5/24 at the Friends of Antioch used book sale room for a quarter. I remember when both of my kids read this in school.

c. 1953 -- 179 pages -- Paperback -- #4 on Voyager Classics Collection (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) list -- #25 on BookCrossing 2004 Favorites list -- #73 on BookCrossing 2006 Favorites list -- #80 on BookCrossing 2008 Favorites list -- #77 on Modern Library Reader's 100 Best Novels list -- #89 on The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians list -- Book Lust 100 Good Reads

Front Cover: The classic bestseller about censorship -- more important now than ever before. ... The temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ... The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze.

Back Cover: Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires ... 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 10 years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight rus nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames ... never questioned anything until he met a 17-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!

I finished reading this book today. What a nightmarish thought!!! A science fiction imagining out what may happen if book censorship continues and all books are burned in the future. I could never live without books. I'm already anxious about running out of time to read all the books on my TBR pile in my lifetime. It also deals with society issues of not wanting to deal with things that upsets you ... don't read poems that move you to tears ... remain in a false-happiness of denial.

I hope everyone on the bookray enjoys this book as much as I did. Long live the freedom of reading books!!!

This book is now part of a BOOKRAY. Please let me know if you are interested in joining, your location, and if you'll ship Internationally. Please try to pass it along to the next person in line within a month ... or update your journal entry on its status.


The list so far:
1. WildcatSong - KY (mail US) --> received 6/3 --> mailed 7/2
2. adah-price - MO --> received 7/6
3. maatkare - MA (mail US/Canada)
4. boerbabe - CA (mail International)
5. muzette - Canada (mail US/Canada)
6. andrea1982 - Canada (mail International)
7. skjaeve - Norway (mail Europe)
8. Hawkette - UK (mail prefer UK, aywhere if needed)
9. Beaglesangel - UK (mail International)
10. apapsa - Greece (middle) (mail International)
11. neerav - Australia (mail Australia)
12. CGrauGarriga - Australia (mail International)
13. Weebaby - VA
14. AngelfireStar - NE (mail US)
15. monkeyflower - CA (mail US or Canada)
16. jlynnt - IL (end-moving) (mail US/Canada)

RELEASE NOTES:

I'm mailing this today to WildcatSong in KY ... to start the bookray adventure.

Received in mail today from cyber-librarian, and what perfect timing! I'll be finishing Catch 22 tonight and ready to begin this book immediately after. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for contacting me about your bookray, cyber!

Very interesting perspective! Ray Bradbury did not disappoint. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie (if I can find it at the video store). I'll be contacting adah-price, who's next on the list for a mailing address and get the book right out to them.

Sorry, I was slow in getting this book out...long story. It is on its way to adah-price now. I apologize for the delay.

still a good book--hadnt' read a version with notes from Bradybury at the end...I love the coda--so appropo:

"In sum, do not insult me with the beheadnings, finger-choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referes, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

And no one can help me. Not even you."





I received it on the 6th and am ready to send on it's merry way to maatkare (pending response with addy).