365 Days of Books of Interest: Day #262 (for Tuesday): Fahrenheit 451

Yeah, I can't believe I have not read Fahrenheit 451. I do remember being in English class possibly 9th grade and being given a list of books to chose from to read. Although, I passed on this book at the time, I would like to eventually get around to reading it. The description does seem rather interesting.

Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Description:

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.