Fahrenheit 451
Registered by geishabird of Toronto, Ontario Canada on 5/21/2010
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
A frightening, disturbing, and not entirely far-fetched story of the death of thought, hope, beauty and the human spirit. This is a future that in some ways we are already living.
A frightening, disturbing, and not entirely far-fetched story of the death of thought, hope, beauty and the human spirit. This is a future that in some ways we are already living.
Journal Entry 2 by geishabird at Charlotte Maher Park in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (6/29/2010 UTC) at Charlotte Maher Park in Toronto, Ontario Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Released as part of the "Chills & Spills" challenge - June's theme is "fire".
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
