Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

BATB score: 7/10 🔥📚👨‍🚒

true classic piece of art, an oldie from 1953

Best to: dystopia novel - if books are illegal and if conformity without question is the norm; where firemen burn books and everyone has ADHD and is dumb

Best as: a political book - censorship, no freedom for imagination, government brutal crackdowns, witch-hunt of intellectual outliers, mass tabloid groupthink

Best for: 72 years later, BATB 2025 has just came across this book?!

BATB lingering thought: had to watch a Fahrenheit 451 animated cartoon summary on Youtube to better understand what I’ve read

Best quotes: “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.”

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury [1953]