Author: Ray Bradbury
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre: Classics, Science Fiction
Pages: 227
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Year Published: 1953
Format: Hardback Copy (Library Copy)
First Line: "It was a pleasure to burn."
"The terrifying prophetic novel of a post-literature future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is a discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books."
My Rating: 2/5
Based on how much I enjoyed the first part of this book I was excited to see an unusual dystopian. The start of this book was interesting to me but the more I read the more I dreaded having started this story. It was frustrating to see how the world had turned. But I also found the writing hard to read, and it seemed to drag on throughout the short 150 pages. I would not read other works by this author and did not read the other short stories in the back of this book. Overall, this book seemed to put me in a slump, and therefore I'm taking a break from classics next month.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
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