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Fahrenheit 451 MP3

by Ray Bradbury

Blackstone Audio | November 1, 2005 | Audio Book (CD)

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires, and he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs, nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames. He never questioned anything, until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future in which people could think.
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2.5 stars

I can only come up with a summary because I saw the movie a few years ago. Montag is a fireman, but in this time/place, firemen aren't there to put out fires; they are there to start them, specifically to start a fire to burn books. Reading is illegal. One day, Montag meets a teenager and, in talking to her, he begins to question what he's doing.

I listened to the audio, and that may - at least partially - be why I didn't like it. It was read by Bradbury himself, and unfortunately, he seems to mumble a bit. I don't think that was entirely why I wasn't interested, but it didn't help. I did find myself paying more attention to the parts in the book I remember from the movie, mostly the beginning and the end. But, I was kind of bored by most of it, and got distracted easily. I wasn't interested enough to back up and listen again for what I'd missed.

The bonus to the audio, though, was the interview with Bradbury at the end. The book (at least the audio), I'd give only 2 stars, but I did find the interview quite interesting and I enjoyed that. I would have given that part 3.5 stars. However, weighing the two together along with the fact that the book, of course, comprised much more of the content than the interview, I can only give this 2.5 stars.

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