Man...I've read this too. It sounds really familiar.
Is it Fahrenheit 451?
I'm planning on reading The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, Twilight, and Fahrenheit 451 (for school). Plus, as many others from my TBR pile as possible.
... through! I can't WAIT to get my hands on the third book in the series! But in the meantime, I'm either going to start Fahrenheit 451, The Loch, or State of Fear.
"There IS a matter of personal preference too..."
That's ulitmately what this boils down to. I recently reread Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes and I thought they had some very good stuff in them.
I like Clarke a great deal, but as a prose stylist he can get a little ...
... about halfway through Red Dragon, which I'm enjoying immensely. I'm still debating about which book I should read next: Fahrenheit 451 (which I've already read), The Loch by Steve Alten (which I've also read), or The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton (which I haven't read).
... in high school that everyone else seemed to hate but me. (I remember being in a similar situation with Siddhartha and Farenheit 451.) Seriously, though, I don't remember enough about it to come up with a good defense of the book, especially when it comes to style.
Although, on a ...
Shades of Fahrenheit 451
I rate the book, review the book, give to the appropriate person/organization, and tag accordingly.
I never trash a book, either literally or figuratively, unless it is actually falling apart and cannot benefit from glue and/or tape. My library includes both owned ...
... ;) Seriously, most of what I have read this year has been for school, including the two books that I re-read, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Only 2 ½ books (I am still working on the ½) have been outside of class work and three classes that I have taken have not added any books to the total.
...
... today, but right now, I'm rereading Congo by Michael Crichton - one of my favorites! After Congo, I plan on reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, and The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton.
... books.
Steinbeck made me want to kill myself so I call that a fail. LOL
Another author I dislike is Ray Bradbury. I read Fahrenheit 451 by and liked it but hated most of the other stuff. I found that too many of his stories ended really depressingly with no resolution which I can't handle. I ...
... Does it work equally well for earthquakes?
How about some recommendations for good fire drill books? I'm thinking Fahrenheit 451.
... absolutely beautiful. I was thinking of rereading either Meg or The Loch by Steve Alten, but I might have to reread Fahrenheit 451 instead! (I read F451 for one of my high school English classes, and I don't think I was really able to appreciate it.)
... Scalzi
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Lirael: The Daughter of the Clayr by Garth Nix
Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell
The Lost Fleet: Fearless by Jack Campbell
A Song In Stone by Walter H. Hunt ...
...
The Bible (whichever version)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (you can't ...
...
The Bible (whichever version)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (you can't ...
... K. Dick **
6. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells **
7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick ***
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ***½
Extra Credit: The American West {complete}
1. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ****½
2. The Hot Kid by Elmore ...
... ok
1 may Morehouse,D Psychic Warrior
7 may Simpson,J Garden Food Crops
Fiction -
3 jan Bradbury, R Fahrenheit 451
5 jan Norton, Andre Cat's Eye
7 feb LeGuin, Ursula A wizard of Earthsea
28 feb Norton,Andre Star Ka'at
12 mar LeGuin, Ursula The ...
I'm finishing up The Body in the Library - I love Agatha Christie, and am also reading Farenheit 451, which I never did read in high school.
I'm finishing up The Body in the Library - I love Agatha Christie, and am also reading Farenheit 451, which I never did read in high school.
... Shining by Stephen King
2. Redwall by Brian Jacques
3. Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5. Les fantômes du cyberspace by Johan Heliot
6. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
7. Matter by Iain M. Banks
8. Th ...
... that you mention it it does sound like something Trashcan would say... lol
but, Thalia is correct. It's Farenheit 451. I almost put the second line in, thinking that one line wouldn't be enough. Guess it was ;-)
Fahrenheit 451? I read it a while ago, but I think I remember it starting out with a sentence like that.
What about To Kill a Mockingbird? The prose is simple as far as I can remember and it's such a classic and lovable story. Farenheit 451 is another simple classic. Animal Farm and Anthem, too.
What about Agatha Christie mysteries? I second the Cat Who books as well.
And this may ...
... Ray Bradbury
5. A Dirty Job Christopher Moore
6. Hand of Evil JA Jance
7. Exit Wounds JA Jance
8. Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
9. The Darkest Evening of The Year Dean Koontz
10. Lamb Christopher Moore
11. Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
12. Confessions ...
Atlas Shrugged
The Brothers Karamazov
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fahrenheit 451
On the Beach
Califia's Daughters
Hondo
A Distant Music (The Tin Whistle) (The Penny Whistle) It’s one book, sold under different names.
Alice in Wonderland
The Stand
The Hornet’s Nest
Dev ...
... especially as one of them is a Coetzee, hopefully one of the ones still remaining on the list.
Still unfortunate that Fahrenheit 451 doesn't make the grade, despite being quite a great novel.
Hopefully I have read something of the new additions, and not too much that I have read has ...
#5
trinah, Fahrenheit 451 is still not on the list.
In fact, I am in two minds about the 2nd edition, which I studied but did not buy in Waterstone's in Piccadilly today, and not just because, by my quick reckoning, I've only read 89 of the books on the new list, rather than the 136 I had ...
... a heck of a time keeping up with reviewing):
21. John Adams by David McCullough (nonfiction, 656 pages)
22. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (fiction, 190 pages)
23. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (fiction, Early Reviewers, 349 pages--review above)
24. ...
Hey there,
My high school students (Clarksville, TN) just finished reading Fahrenheit 451. I've used some of the lesson plan resources from the Big Read. There was a Big Read book discussion in Nashville over the book but it was not timed well with my class so I couldn't ask my students to ...
#4
Awesome, look forward to hearing the new revisions.
I'd love to know if Fahrenheit 451 has been added, because, that is IMO, one of the worst omissions of the old edition.
Over the winter my community read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
... in the Rye
Chronicles of Narnia (as a child)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Ella Enchanted
Fahrenheit 451
Feed
Flowers for Algernon
Gathering Blue
The Giver (as a child)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbi ...
... Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (Gr. 8?)
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ...which, amazingly, has no touchstone (Gr. 8)
Fahrenheit 451 (Gr. 9?)
The Great Gatsby (Gr. 11?)
Lord of the Flies (Gr. 10)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (college)
A Raisin in the Sun (Gr. 10?)
A Separate ...
... as the Chronicles of Narnia, and they ate them up. She has also done some Bradbury (Dandelion Wine, I think) and Farenheit 451. She is not a huge reader of fantasy/sci-fi herself, so now she feels lost trying to make recommendations. I did talk her into reading The Lions of Al Rassan ...
I just hope Fahrenheit 451 is never reduced to purely eBook form. That would be a tragic irony.
Nobody would get the message of a book about burning books in a future where books are electronic and unburnable (yet deletable). Think about it.
The real issue with Fahrenheit 451 is it is all about thought control. They actually prefer people not to think in the first place, that way lies, trouble.
One of the reasons they memorised the story word for word in Fahrenheit 451 was that it was an offence to own a book. You couldn't write it down because then it could be destroyed. By containing it in your memory and passing it on that way, there is no physical book itself. You have no way of ...
> 114 TeenAuthor
I loved Fahrenheit 451 too. Bradburys writing's amazing and it's definitely one of the better dystopia's I've read.
Reading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time ever. I wanted to see what the fuss was about Bradbury, and he hits you with a sledgehammer of conformist madness, and the way he writes draws you in from the very first page and doesn't let you go. I had to tear myself away from it in order to EAT. Normal ...
... high school. Lately that's been:
1984
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse Five
Heart of Darkness
Of Mice and Men
Fahrenheit 451
Currently, I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities
It is so bloody frustrating to ponder over the potential reasons Fahrenheit 451 is not included in the list. Why? Why? Why?
16. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury : I'm I huge Bradbury fan, so it's odd that I had never read this before. It was superb. Still, I didn't find it as genius as The Martian Chronicles.
also...
5. Ecclesiastes : My favorite book in the entire Bible, I just finished re-studying it this ...
... Opera by Gaston Leroux
May: Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe
June: About a Boy by Nick Hornby
July: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
August: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
September: Undecided
October: Undecided
November: Undecided
December: A ...
...
10. The Tale of Despereaux (children's, 269 pp)
11. Onion John (children's, 248 pp)
12. Stargirl (YA, 186 pp)
13. Fahrenheit 451 (novel, 190 pp)
14. Soon I Will Be Invincible (fantasy, 280 pp)
15. The Freedom Writers Diary (non-fic/autobio, 280 pp)
16. The Facts Behind the Helsi ...
... less profanity, anyone else find that so?
Ray Bradbury is great, too. I love Something Wicked This Way Comes and Farenheit 451, along with Martian Chronicles is in my TBR pile.
... Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
49. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
50. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
51. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
52. The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris
53. Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
54. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohs ...
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
... his descriptions of the people wandering around with the little seashells in there ears ignoring the world around them in Fahrenheit 451. But that's more in the sad but all too true dystopian side of things where as the roomba relation just sort of cracked me up!
(ETA: My review of the ...
As far as literary style goes, I'll throw Fahrenheit 451 in to represent the classics. I've always thought the opening paragraphs of that were some of the most impressive in any genre.
best was hard to pick but I'm going to have to go with Fahrenheit 451 first time I read it and I really enjoyed it.
worst - hands down Golf Unplugged my one ER book.
... depressed about the human race. Of the ones you reviewed, I have read Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, 1984 andFahrenheit 451, but that was spread out over a couple years.
I've also read We and since you haven't tackled that one yet, I'll give it a shot. Bear in mind I read it ...
... the City by Lauren Blitzer and Lauren Levin
04. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
05. Momo by Michael Ende
06. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
07. Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke
08. Chiaroscuro: Book 1 by Troy Little
09. Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
...
Ha! Thanks for the quote. Your honeymoon sounds like fun to me! And I had a similar experience the second time I read Fahrenheit 451--it was a little disappointing, really, but I think the nostalgia is enough that I still count it as one of my favorites.
... sale. I thought the sheep shouting "FEATHER" was just another bizarre touch too!
And the reading goes on...
30. Fahrenheit 451 I hadn't read this in years and years. I seem to remember there being more to it; it's awfully short and the ending seems a bit too.... How can you trust ...
Whoops! Double post.
... books instead of trying out used ones! (No offense, just surprised). Good luck with the books, and if you like Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, I'd suggest The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander. It's a very odd book that goes by much faster than you'd expect, but the story is ...
TeacherDad - My copy of Fahrenheit 451 is marked in highlighter. Some LT members will cringe when they read this! :)
Wildbill - I teach in a high school and deal with students each day who refuse to read. Some struggle with reading, but the vast majority simply don't read. That's a very ...
I'm so glad you enjoyed Farenheit 451; it's one of my favorite books. Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, which is more of a memoir, is summer-sweet and just as well-crafted, if you are adding more of his works to your list.
And, if you'll forgive me for contributing to the earlier bookstore-politics ...
...
10. The Tale of Despereaux (children's, 269 pp)
11. Onion John (children's, 248 pp)
12. Stargirl (YA, 186 pp)
13. Fahrenheit 451 (novel, 190 pp)
14. Soon I Will Be Invincible (fantasy, 280 pp)
15. The Freedom Writers Diary (non-fic/autobio, 280 pp)
16. The Facts Behind the Helsi ...
... you smell books, right? I love the smell of old books. I'll give a cookie to the first person who can find the quote in Farenheit 451 about the smell of books. Or a quote from another source I don't know about. "Friends, Romans, lend me your..."....noses!
... while following The Wife through the mall... it seems ok so far, almost Nick Hornby-ish? And still in the middle of Fahrenheit 451...
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorites. I used to read it once a year.
... other's eyes have previously perused, but I'll enter with an open mind...
just finished Despereaux and started Fahrenheit 451, with a bookmark ready for The Thin Place...
Personally, I think it's got to be Fahrenheit 451.
Without books, what WOULD we talk about?
I've recently knocked 2 off the list that have been there for a long time 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
A Brave New World, is another that fits in there I need to read, and I really need to try something by Heinlein
... haven't read (or soo long ago)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Slaughterhouse 5 *
American Gods
Fahrenheit 451 *
Ender's Game *
The Lovely Bones
Dune (no touchstone??) *
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
The Giver
Alternative Cat Idea 1: Mystery
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... Badass and the Rose of Turkestan
Soul of the Algorithm
The Steel the Mist and the Blazing Sun
Newton's Cannon
Fahrenheit 451
Ender's Game
Titan
Ilium
Dune (no touchstone??)
8. Chadbourn's Arthurian Modern Fiction (from thread )
Category Complete
World's End READ
...
#8: So, you're saying that The Pickup Artist is *more* off-beat and strange than Farenheit 451? Cool - I'll definitely have to check it out!
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books! Do I need to add The Pickup Artist to my never ending and ever growing TBR list?
The Pickup Artist... had to convince The Wife it had nothing to do with girls.. very Farenheit 451-ish, but in an absurdly, off-beat, strange kind of way...
... bad year for reading.... Of course the next year in English we read 9 weeks worth of Ray Bradbury, whom I also don't like- Fahrenheit 451 being the exception.
... Fiction
Ventus - Karl Schroeder
The First Men in the Moon - H.G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Someplace to be Flying - Charles de Lint
I am still reading The Trouble with Poetry. I've also been reading Fahrenheit 451 because I'm going to read it with my juniors this quarter. I'm not sure what I'll read next as I have so many to choose from. Probably a YA book like Everlost or The Book Thief.
... My favorite books of all time are To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, Gone With the Wind, Ender's Game, and Fahrenheit 451.
My oldest son shares my love for books. We're making a concentrated effort to read more books by Georgia authors. It's a very interesting journey.
My ...
... om!!!)
-Harry Potter, all the books, but the 6th, not as much.
-Ender's series (also listed, but I love them!
-Fahrenheit 451 so good!
-Anthem by Ayn Rand (surprisingly short, but one of her best, if not the best.
-Bridge to Teribithea that is the only book that ...
... ever happen, but I can dream. Ray Bradbury completely spoiled me by including the material he added in his script of Fahrenheit 451 in the afterword of some editions.
Equus isn't in my library, but I've read that as well. I didn't feel the need to keep it, though. Plays are really ...
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
If you haven't yet read Fahrenheit 451, I highly recommend it. It was written 56 years ago, but really stands the test of time. Sometime after the year 2022, the government is planning a war, but keeps the population occupied and unaware of it by bombarding ...
... two novels. Because it’s a memoir, I’m not going to include it in this review.
In addition, on the side I also read Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood.
I had also planned to read We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Brave New World, ...
According to Bradbury himself, Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship...
Cydonia by Ken MacLeod is a good, modern sf YA novel. It's part of a series by different authors, The Web.
>11
In the case of Fahrenheit 451: yes.
I don't remember any science fiction in school from sixth grade, but Fahrenheit 451 and Flowers for Algernon were two that we read at the beginning of seventh grade. That shouldn't be too far off from the end of sixth, right? Fahrenheit 451 definitely has real world application, though if you' ...
...
1 - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2 - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
3 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4 - Perfume: The story of a murderer by Patrick Suskind
5 - Choke by Chuck Palahnuik
Farenheit 451 (the temperature at which books burn) by Ray Bradbury is one of those disturbing science-fiction-becoming-fact tales that is very worrying.
Nope. I've been up for almost 5 hours now, after 3 hours of sleep.
TPBM has read Farenheit 451.
... them. Not do the stupid, "It'll brainwash all of society."
Did you know they (being the local governments) banned Fahrenheit 451 in some places? Burnings of the book have also been reported because people disagree with it. Funny. In a sick way.
Well, there's Fahrenheit 451, which is nothing like Something Wicked....
I like his stories a lot better than his novels, personally. Try The October Country. What's the collection you're thinking about?
... with Vladimir Nabokov in Bend Sinister. Somewhere in there I took an unscheduled side trip with Ray Bradbury to Fahrenheit 451. Then my plane crashed into a idyllic tropical island . . . too bad I happened to be there at the same time as the rotten school boys from William Golding ...
October '07
63. Bend Sinister, by Vladimir Nabokov
64. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
65. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
66. Mosquito, by Roma Tearne
... Rowling's Harry Potter of course, (oh man, I knew I wouldn't be able to stop once I started with the mentions) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley, and everything else Alco ...
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Armor by John Steakley
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Von Bek ...
... book that made me look around at the world I lived in
10. The Kama Sutra by some unknown monk LOL just joking
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the only Bradbury book I like
Well there you have it.... my favorite books as of this moment. NO classics NO amazingly story that touched ...
You're peculiar yourself Mr. Montag.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
... .
Here I'll stop to count the number of times to I used the word "list" in this post and then take a moment for "What, no Fahrenheit 451??"
Have a nice day,
-llamagirl
The books 1984, the tripod trilogy starting with The White Mountains, Cosmic Contemplations, Planet of the Apes and Fahrenheit 451 are all great sci fi reads you can't go wrong with.
tbr,sf
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Childr ...
... ideas. I haven't read all of the books you suggest, but Reading Lolita in Tehran would make a great comparison with Fahrenheit 451, especially since one is nonfiction and the other is fiction - adds that off-the-wall touch that I love.
Dostoyevsky and Poe are two old favorites of mine, ...
I think Reading Lolita in Tehran would be interesting to compare to Fahrenheit 451 in terms of books-in-books.
Crime and Punishment to Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart in terms of examining the psyche of a criminal.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Crime and Punishment might also be ...
... in the next month I will compare some of 1984, Darkness at Noon, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Bend Sinister, Fahrenheit 451, The Trial, We, The Handmaid's Tale and/or Brave New World.
... Plum Lucky
26. Outside the Dog Museum
27. Tea with the Black Dragon
28. Spinners
29. The Annotated Alice
30. Fahrenheit 451
31. The Book of Lost Things
32. Confessions of Max Tivoli
33. Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir
34. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers ...
... that was pretty good.
The thing that makes me incredibly sad - you can't help but marvel at the irony of it - is that Farenheit 451 is still a banned book in some schools.
... about Single Malt-- then all hail Talisker).
42: the amount of beers that will leave you clinically dead.
A bit like Fahrenheit 451 . . . What is the temperature required to take away a human's common sense?
Our local library does a yearly community read with readings and other events. This year's choice is
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury.
... Martian Chronicles is excellent Bradbury, but could easily be taught as short stories by only using a couple chapters. Farenheit 451 may be the better of his novels to teach. Selections from I, Robot wouls be good as well. Oh, and I know the other sci fi class used "The Sand Kings" by Ge ...
... up some of those "I should have read these" books for my "next" pile: Catch 22, The Great Gatsby, Horse Whisperer, Farenheit 451 and others; and adding to my collection of Kurt Vonnegut (RIP).
Oh - and let's not forget the last Harry Potter. ;) Finished it - ready to start ...
farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
... but still...), and I almost didn't talk to them for a long time, just because of the symbolism. How could anyone who's read Fahrenheit 451 burn a book?
I will only throw a book away under great duress. It has to be a health hazard before I'll get rid of it.
Fahrenheit 451 comes up as a Brave new world
Just because it's on my TBR pile Fahrenheit 451
...
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
**Edited for BLEEPING touchstones! Who's been diddling them anyway! There's NO excuse for the ...
... young adult read about beauty and perfection, but I enjoyed it. I also heartily recommend The Giver. I've got The Road, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid's Tale all on my to be read list, so it sounds like I've got a few good reads in front of me!
I'd say definitely include Fahrenheit 451, its an excellent novel about the dangers of book banning and censorship.
... - BIG READ
The Concord library will be sponsoring BIG READ, a series of events highlighting Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury's classic story about a frightening vision of the future in which firemen don't put out fires, they start them in order to burn books.
Free ...
>61: I don't think Fahrenheit 451 is boring at all! I read it in one sitting, but then, it's short. I think you should really give it a shot.
I recently bought Fahrenheit 451 because of all the talk about it, now you guys say it's boring. Great. Anyway, I have that one, I probably won't join on any sci-fi I have to buy unless my husband wants it, he's the sci-fi fan in this house.
I just finished When Worlds Collide, which is ...
... although somehow teenagers are still usually bored.
Also, it seems like in a lot of dystopic works (I'm thinking of Fahrenheit 451 and Oryx and Crake, among others), there's a pattern where the male protagonist meets a girl who seems to be free from the society that limits him. He's ...
Siddartha
Fahrenheit 451
This Side of the Gate
In the Buddha's Words
Lord of the Ring
Chronicles of Narnia
Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrel
the Glass Bead Game
Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
the Harry Potter series
the Dresden Files
the works of Alice Bailey (Th ...
... Bible
Various Family and County Histories
To Kill a Mockingbird
Little Women
Gone With the Wind
Ender's Game
Fahrenheit 451
The Chronicles of Narnia
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Rendezvous with Rama and all of the sequels
... some of the big classics of SciFi. Any recommendations?
I've already read the left hand of darkness, enders game and fahrenheit 451 and I've got dune and the time machine on my to read pile.
They don't neccesarily have to be old classics - just the "important" works.
Thanks!
... (probably because I liked the movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow); the book was better! I also remember reading Fahrenheit 451, and being spooked by it (a good thing).
This last week, I finally read Girl With a Pearl Earring. While in Europe, we were fortunate to see seven of Ver ...
I just picked up Catch 22 and The Great Gatsby - a couple I've never read. I've been on the lookout for Farenheit 451, but I think I'm going to go ahead and order it.
... For myself my favorites would be:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
and Childhood's end by Arthur C. Clarke
There are many others, but these probably had the most ...
... universe tech advancements are bad because the general populous isn't smart enough to use it wisely.
I've always loved Fahrenheit 451. It's a wonderful book about the dangers of censorship and propaganda. It's about how we need to think for ourselves and not let anyone take away the ...
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Fahrenheit 451 by the great Ray Bradbury
edited to add touchstone
... (Stephen King) before my 10th birthday. But I think my first SF was a couple years later in my very early teens: Fahrenheit 451. Mom taught that one in her high school English class (along with the Hobbit, and Alas Babylon -- Mom was a very cool teacher!). I proceeded to read a L ...
... Hobbit, 1984) but also Pride and Prejudice, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, and Farenheit 451.
Tane - I've got Mark Haddon's Curious Incident too, good book but I was pretty surprised how common it was.
53. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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It wasn't published anytime recently, but that sounds kinda like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (and even if it's not, I highly recommend you check it out).
1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
4. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
... all pretty much different flavors of the same genre.
If you want to be strict about the SF label, I think my first was Fahrenheit 451 and somewhere around the same time I found Stranger in a Strange Land. I didn't really branch out from Heinlein and Bradbury until years later ...
... of all time," is banned somewhere in the world. I wonder what the Christian fundies trying to ban classic literature like Fahrenheit 451 think of that? Next time I run into one of these people, I think I'll tell them that they read a banned book every day, I can't even imagine the classic look ...
I reread three books each year: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury every couple of years.
... ed.
The Demolished Man.* Alfred Bester
Dhalgren.* Samuel R. Delany
Engine Summer.* John Crowley
Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury
Fever Dream. George R. R. Martin
Fiskadoro. Denis Johnson
Frankenstein. Mary Shelley
Friday. Robert A. Heinlein
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1.) The Book Thief
2.) The Thirteenth Tale
3.) All Over but the Shoutin
4.) Rebecca
5.) Fahrenheit 451
Something old (4) ...something new (2), something borrowed (from the library-3) and something that made me blue (1). A good mix.
1.) The Book Thief
2.) The Thirteenth Tale
3.) All Over but the Shoutin
4.) Rebecca
5.) Fahrenheit 451
... work with the same name? or do you mean Bradbury's short story of the same name which is thought to be the basis for Fahrenheit 451? and later the longer version The Fireman. ooops i just clicked on your tag and see you reference the novel by Harold Mead (I haven't read that one, do ...
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is definitely the fave but others lesser favorites are:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz.
The ...
Book #18
Title: Gathering Blue
Author: Lois Lowry
Book #19
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Book #20
Title: So Many Books, So Little Time
Author: Sara Nelson
Book #21
Title: Nineteen Minutes
Author: Jodi Picoult
Moi j'en ai lu 3 parmi sa liste
neuromancien j'ai pas aimé
fahrenheit 451 un bon bouquin
solaris je suis pas rentrée dedans
Et vous?
... preted
Now, Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant. Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship. Nor was it a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled ...
I am currently between books, but I finished writing an essay about Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Two really excellent books, I'd have to say, and they have more in common than you would think.
I think everybody knows about Fahrenheit 451, so I' ...
... just one, as most here probably are, but here's my top three in no particular order:
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
... 11) by Robert Jordan
13. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
22. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
451. Farenheit 451 by Ray bradbury
1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
I'm not sure but probably Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Fahrenheit 451 in speculative fiction. Guns of the South in history. The Bible, and the Qur'an in history. the Philosophy of the Matrix in whatever the movie section is called.
In terms of oldies but goodies, I'd recommend Fahrenheit 451 and Siddhartha. They are both short reads, but they could easily spark some great discussions. the first is about book burning among other things, and the second is about the spiritual quest. The title is a bit misleading, as the main ...
... and caught this on the news the other day: certain religious groups and pta organizations here are trying to ban the book farenheit 451 in public schools.
not only a horrific idea - book banning!?!?
... but there's also the irony of them wanting to ban a book in which the banning of ...
... be ashamed to read "genre" books, that they can have as much literary value as the classics. So I say throw in some Fahrenheit 451 and The Hobbit. Mix it up and see what they go for.
... Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Brandon Sanderson (new favorite), and several others
FAVORITE BOOK(s): To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451
FAVORITE DRINK: Coca Cola :)
FAVORITE CHEESE: Pepper Jack
FAVOURITE SPELLING OF FAVORITE: "Favorite"
FAVORITE GOURD-NOSED BARBARIAN: Groo!
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Probably Fahrenheit 451, or the Bible. I'm not Christian, but I am a religious studies major in college, so I think it'd be appropriate, and it would be fun to see the looks on people's faces when they saw it.
... Catcher in the Rye, (because I'm the guy alway watching out for people who are close to 'falling over the cliff'), and Farenheit 451, because it's a cliff of a different sort.
"It was a pleasure to burn." - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"Maman died today." -The Stranger by Albert Camus
Remembering all the first sentences from novels I read in high school tends to come in little trickles. :P
I just read the article this thread refers to today. (I know, I'm sort of late.) I love Fahrenheit 451; it's one of those books I read every year and I have suggested it to students as reading material. The one thing that is absurd to me is the fact that he wants the book banned based on his "r ...
... instead).I'd definitely count The Bell Jar as a Modern Classic and I thin kI'd like ot try that one actually. Same with Fahreheit 451. i've laid down the first half of the 20th Century only as a very rough guideline for myself, as it's an area I've largely neglected...
... to 75 for now, but I really have no idea how much I actually read in a year.
What I have read so far in April:
1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower by Zbigniew Brzezinski
3. The God Delusion by Richard ...
... in the Rye
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Where do Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" and Ray Bradbury's Fahreheit 451 stand?
... that I keep rereading every year? Or the one that I sink into the most? Or would it be the book I would memorize like in Fahrenheit 451?
For question #1...there's at least 1 book I reread every year Maia by Richard Adams for the longest time. So much that it's going to lose its cover ...
... Atwood's Handmaid's Tale or Oryx and Crake, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, and Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451.
There are many thoughtful novels which focus a bit more specifically on various social issues. There another thread in this group that's full of ...
... Brashares
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Again, I totally understand if you don't want to go the route of the thriller novel, but if you're ...
... make my reading experience etc better for some books yet worse for others. For instance, I loved the ideas expressed in Fahrenheit 451. However, reading it for a class provided to be a better experience for me that reading it for pleasure. At the same time, there have been times when I've ...
... - I agree that the majority of Bradbury's work, including The Martian Chronicles, is fantasy. However, in addition to Fahrenheit 451 he has written many short stories that are solidly SF. Though his poetic style and fantasy writings turned off a lot of hard core SF fans early in his ...
... already read a few of these books for my English classes (Metamorphosis, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Fahrenheit 451, and A Prayer for Owen Meany), but unfortunately, school has ruined many a classic for me, especially Crime and Punishment. (I had to help write an 80+ ...
... Then move to A Tale of Two Cities before tackling his longer works.
One of King's influences is Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes).
Then, to get into other classics, I would suggest working backwards in time, starting with ...
... Mark Twain.
On a controversial note, I would suggest that Bradbury has been over-praised. He is a poor novelist, Fahrenheit 451 apart, and his work is often swamped by sentimentality, although it could be this sentimentality that has increased his success. (If Bradbury is an sf writer ...
No surprise here - The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
... home and her husband is in the livingroom rather jellyfishish on the floor...
And, of course, All Summer in a Day and Fahrenheit 451...so many...
The Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451 - no doubt!
Farenheit 451 for sure. Of course I personally abhor book banning and burning, so of course I'm gonna love it.
The Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451! ^__^V
... being offended somehow or another by something written in the books. One example is a School Board in Mississippi banning Fahrenheit 451 because of the words "God damn". This book was used in a High School English class, and it was 1999. A group of parents complained to the Superintendent. T ...
... I've been interested in from my English class are A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and Les Miserables. There have been others that I could tolerate, but those have been the only books that I truly enjoyed.
... It is a tough decision. I think I would have to choose To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. A close second would be Fahrenheit 451.
Hmm...tough decision. I'll narrow it down to Fahrenheit 451 (for obvious reasons), Carrie because it seems to be one of Stephen King's most banned books, and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret simply because I loved that book when I was in junior high.
... approve of.
I remember hearing about this one family (I think it was in Texas, I forget now) that had a problem with Farenheit 451 of all books! The father complained to the school. I guess the class was reading the book together and he threw a fit about that book and wanted it off the ...
... is more than I had previously thought.) However, I am thoroughly disgusted by book burning of any sort! I feel Bradbury's Fahreheit 451 carries very good messages. (I have two copies! :)
... of these at least three times:
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Little Women by Louise May Alcott
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Call of ...
... a society in which all books have gone missing and are stored inside the protagonist's mind, reminding me of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. The Townley book is a fantasy addressing how characters can come to life in our minds and how books can influence the course of our lives. All three are ...
... Damned" de William C. DIETZ
"Marionnettes humaines" "The Puppet Masters" de Robert A. HEINLEIN
"Fahrenheit 451" "Fahrenheit 451" de Ray BRADBURY
"Norstrilia" de Cordwainer SMITH
"Solaris" "Solaris" de Stanislaw LEM
"Le Berceau du chat" "Cat's Cradle" de Kurt VONNEGUT Jr ...
... books?
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Mt. Olympus Basketball by Kevin O'Malley, one of the guest authors, hopefully he will sign this one tomorrow, my friend will meet him ...
... books?
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Mt. Olympus Basketball by Kevin O'Malley, one of the guest authors, hopefully he will sign this one tomorrow, my friend will meet him ...
Busifer, you should definitely see it, especially if you're a Christian Bale fan. The movie is kind of a cross between Fahrenheit 451 and the Giver, with some of V for Vendetta mixed in. On the other hand, I personally would not recommend the movie version of 451. It was done back in the '60's ...
... my God, who would throw a book in the trash?! That's disgusting! Wouldn't it be better to recycle or sell it? I know in Fahrenheit 451 it was *burning*, not trashing, but oh my! I can't help but think of that book when I hear of people throwing books in the trash.
How about Fahrenheit 451? How can a bunch of book geeks not like that book?
... (how's that for a good source citation?) that Ray Bradbury said that he'd only ever written one science fiction book: Fahrenheit 451, because it could technically potentially happen. His other works, like The Martian Chronicles, were proved fantasy from the moment we first saw pictures ...
... books. I do have some weird paranoia about no longer being able to get books, or not being 'allowed' to have them (Fahrenheit 451 had an effect on me). I have no problem admitting I'm a book hoarder. For the most part, I buy my bookscrossing books with the express goal of releasing ...
... might be Catcher in the Rye, The Chocolate War, Flowers for Algernon, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, The Pigman, A Separate Peace, etc.
You might be interested (in part) to look at the Teenreads.com's Rule42 in Book talk : World's best Reading- Reader's Digest (Feb 8, 2007, 1:06am)
