Monday, August 22, 2011

Fahrenheit 451-Would I Recommend this Book

This book along with Old Man and the Sea were my top two books of the summer reading. For this one I enjoyed the futuristic setting and the mystic style that Ray Bradbury wrote in. Rather than dreading through all of the books I actually enjoyed reading these two.
For the futuristic setting, I have read a couple like this before, but for some reason I didn't like the style of this one. That is probably the only problem I had with the book which is a good thing to say about it. Earlier on in the blogging I stated why I liked the futuristic style and this book didn't have a lot of it. That is probably why I didn't like the style as much. The overall content of the book was very good and I really enjoyed it, but the way the author portrayed it in writing wasn't his best of works.
I haven't read any other books of Ray Bradbury, but I know he has written better only because I saw the potential in this one. By the way everything I have just said is opinionated so to someone else this book could be the bomb and their favorite book and argue that this is the best work of Ray Bradbury, yet others might not like it as much and side with me saying that he could have done better. I think that some authors should write a book, get one hundred test subjects and have those people then read the book and provide input. I think that if you do that and pay each person one hundred bucks you could really make a great book. Of coarse it wouldn't be as fun of a read to those one hundred people off the street because they helped provide ideas, but for everyone else in the world it would be amazing. I also feel that it would pay up for the one hundred dollars you owed the people and increase the revenue by a great margin.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

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