Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It is no surprise this book is a classic. It is thought provoking and continues to skewer our mindless mass media culture with pinpoint accuracy.
I’m often surprised when I read similar novels, written in the past imagining forward to one of the possible bleak futures of mankind, that the novels so often assumed that the countryside and agriculture would be or remain idyllic. It was amazing the powers so many authors had to foresee so much of our future and yet every dystopia I’ve read seems to assume that food would come from happy green family farms. I haven’t come across a single one that foresaw the atrocities of factory farm cruelty and the degradation of unethical industrial food production. There may be some out there, but I haven’t found them. Odd.
This is a good book, and I’m glad I finally got around to reading it. I’m surprised it never came up in high school – though I wouldn’t have fully appreciated it then anyway.
I have never read this book. It’s been on my To Read list for YEARS.
It is pretty good, Karen, though definitely a dystopia. I keep reading them, and I really need to give it a rest. I think I’m going to read “How to Be a Woman” next – I hope that’s not a dystopia!