Journal Entry 1 by AliceF from Coventry, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Sunday, June 25, 2006

BOOK RING: This ring is currently open. Members are as follows (if you wish to join, please PM me and I will add you!):

• angellica
• loopy1
• dogsapples
• Rillaith
• Cyzaki
• dolph1n
• RonOren
• chocdrop
• CaterinaAnna
• with soulbalm since 5 September 2007
• caffcaff
• katisha50
• dark-draco
• archai
• bigcurlyloz

• If you wish to be added to the list, please PM me with your details.
• We will kick off once we have 5 members.
• You will be sending the book to the person who appears after you in the list, so you need to PM them to get their address!
• It's not a race, but please read and send the book on as speedily as you can, other people are dying to read it too.
• Please journal the book once you have received it (so we all know where it currently is) and again when you have read it (so we know what you thought of it!)
• If you're the last person on the list (i.e. we run out of members) the book comes back to me until there are more interested parties...

Journal Entry 2 by AliceF from Coventry, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Passed on to angellica at the Unconvention. 

Journal Entry 3 by angellica from Worksop, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Friday, July 07, 2006

Given to me by AliceF at the unconvention - Thank you very much.

My Other Half has been wanting to read this for ages (and I've not managed to talk him into his own bookshelf)

We'll get this moving again soon

Thank you for sharing 

Journal Entry 4 by angellica from Worksop, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 06, 2006

After a few failed attempts to get my other half to read this - I've given up! I have been sent another copy so I'll get this one back on the road

Thanks for sharing

 

Journal Entry 5 by loopy1 from Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Apologies for not journalling sooner - this is the first time I've managed to get the book close enough to a computer that I can actually use to journal it!

I'm looking forward to reading this one over the Christmas holidays - I have fond memories of watching the film in a bed and breakfast in St Albans.

Thanks!
 

Journal Entry 6 by AliceF from Coventry, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Saturday, March 17, 2007

Sent loopy1 a little nudge to get the ring moving again... 

Journal Entry 7 by loopy1 from Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom on Monday, April 02, 2007

I was surprised by the amount of what I perceived as almost poetry in this book. I've seen the film before, but not read the book, which I found thought-provoking. Is this the way our society is travelling, with its insistence on non-offensive material?

This book is now parcelled up ready to go, but dogsapples has requested I hold on to it for a few days before posting.

Sorry for keeping it so long! 

Journal Entry 8 by dogsapples from Kilchoan, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, April 12, 2007

Arrived today, thank you. Going to bump this up tbr to keep it moving so will be starting to read later today. 

Journal Entry 9 by dogsapples from Kilchoan, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Well - what a weird book, and amazing to think it was written in 1954. There are some lovely descriptive moments. How amazing to think that firemen used to be for putting out fires! The idea of fireproof homes is appealing though.

Thanks for sharing, this will be off to Rillaith soon. 

Journal Entry 10 by dogsapples from Kilchoan, Scotland United Kingdom on Monday, April 30, 2007

Still waiting to hear from rillaith, so have not been able to pass this on yet. 

Journal Entry 11 by dogsapples from Kilchoan, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Both AliceF and I have been unable to contact rillaith so waiting for cyzaki's address now so that it can move on to her. 

Journal Entry 12 by dogsapples from Kilchoan, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Have discovered that cyzaki is way until June 8th so now hoping to send to dolp1n so it can get on its way. 

Journal Entry 13 by dogsapples from Kilchoan, Scotland United Kingdom on Monday, May 21, 2007

Woohoo! this book is finally moving on to dolp1n today! 

Journal Entry 14 by dolph1n from Chester, Cheshire United Kingdom on Thursday, May 24, 2007

Received today thanks. I last read this as a teenager in about 1958 or 1959. I am looking forward to reading it again to see how or if my opinion of it has changed. 

Journal Entry 15 by dolph1n from Chester, Cheshire United Kingdom on Monday, May 28, 2007

Well, this was every bit as good as I remembered it to be. Imagine life like that in the book, relationships mean nothing and people are ruled by materialism. Sound familiar? In the book, people are unmoved by death and suicide. This reminded of two recent events. I overheard one of a group of teenagers tell the others about a friend's attempted suicide, "oh , she's done it before" said one in a bored voice, "probably do it again" and they moved on to a new topic. My immediate thought was "Poor girl I wonder why she feels so bad!" The second incident was when I told a 24 year old about a neighbour's death. "Yeah but she was old" was the uninterested reply. She was 51. The change in firemen's roles set me thinking about other changes that might happen. Would police be responsible for committing crimes, and doctors for spreading diseases? Can you imagine plumbers coming round to burst your pipes and flood your houses? What about libraries? Would they be places where you could take your books to be burned?
Thank you, Alice, for giving me the chance to read this again. 

Journal Entry 16 by dolph1n from Chester, Cheshire United Kingdom on Monday, May 28, 2007

I will send this to RonOren as soon as I have his address. 

Journal Entry 17 by RonOren from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Sunday, June 03, 2007

Just arrived. I won't be reading it quite yet, as I'm still getting through 3 books at the same time (but two of those are very near the end, so it shouldn't be too long). I am looking forward to it, though.

I did like the cunning disguise of a set of photos, I must say ;-). Thanks for the card, too, dolph1n! 

Journal Entry 18 by RonOren from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Sunday, June 10, 2007

This is a very scary book! I'm not sure what I felt worse about: the society that cares about "fun" (defined as anything that doesn't need thinking) only; the lawless society where it's completely acceptable to try and hit a pedestrian for fun; or the 1984-esque society where husband turns on wife, friend turns on friend.
In fact, what is really scary is none of these, but the very subtle remark that his society was not installed by some crazed dictator, but that it naturally flowed from the wish of society itself. I wonder how much different our society is from the one that Captain Beatty described, the one that spawned the book-burning one of Montags time...

The book reminded me a lot of 1984, for obvious reasons. But it seemed to have a little Clockwork Orange in it too; not so much the contents (although the beetle trying to run over Montag is not too far off), but the style of writing: there are moments when the book rambles and I couldn't do anything but gloss over it until it came back in focus. That's a little like Clockwork Orange's slang, where you just have to read the book at a slightly coarser level of detail. I wonder how much these three books have influenced one antoher.

Well, that's one classic that I'm very happy to have read, even if it was a difficult read at times! Thanks for sharing it, AliceF! I'll get in touch with chocdrop and will get the book moving soon. 

Journal Entry 19 by RonOren from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 23, 2007

I finally got around to got to the post office, so it's now on its way to chocdrop. Hope you find it as good a read as I did! 

Journal Entry 20 by chocdrop from Derby, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Book arrived today - thanks, RonOren.

I'm in the middle of a book at the mo, but this will be next. 

Journal Entry 21 by chocdrop from Derby, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 18, 2007

I've really struggled with my reading this year due to work and life pressures, so I surprised myself by managing to read this in one day.

It is certainly a thought-provoking book. Clarisse says "I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone." It makes you think about the way society is heading today, when it seems that every time you put the news on, there is a report of another teenager being shot or stabbed. Let's hope that things never get as bad as this.

I will post to CaterinaAnna tomorrow. Thanks for sharing, AliceF. 

Journal Entry 22 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Monday, July 30, 2007

This got to nearly-home while I was away last week. It awaited me on the doormat along with three other books and a note about another awaiting me in the sorting office. Good job it's the summer holidays ;o)

Thanks for getting it to me chocdrop. 

Journal Entry 23 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, August 16, 2007

This was a hard book to read, and I too was reminded of the other dystopian classics mentioned above. I was heartened by the determination of the wanderers at the end, although I feel that the event which gives them their opportunity is the one thing which makes the book a product of its time. As with the ''Something wicked This Way Comes'' I found Bradbury''s style a little ponderous at times, but zoned out in the way described by RonOren for much less of this book than that one.

Glad I have read it at last: thanks aliceF for sharing and everyone else for keeping it moving. 

Journal Entry 24 by shewolffe from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Arrived the other day. I may not start reading it for a week or two (or three) as I have another bookring book to read and also a book to read for my book group (which is next week! Eeeeks!)
Am looking forward to it though.