Fahrenheit 451

I just finished this book perhaps 2-3 hours ago the funny thing is that I checked out this book maybe like more than 2 months ago and when I curiously just picked it up to finish it. It only took me that less than half hour to finish it. I have no idea why I didn’t finish it a while ago especially since I was in the middle of the actual action scene when Montag was on the run. But I just stopped in the middle of it abruptly. Nonetheless I am very pleased to finish it since it was one of the many books I put on my personal reading list on last year. The reason why I choose to read this book because of the book burning and I who is a abibliophobic ( someone with the fear of running out of reading materials) was very interested in such a world were books are illegal, can you imagine such a horror. I was also interested in the world the author, Ray Bradbury described because he wrote this book back in the 50’s but he described things which is so much like how it is today without that excessive violence.

I couldn’t believe that this book was only written in the year 1953 because when you read the book it has so many familiar aspects that reflect our attitude today. But thankfully we don’t widespread book burning but we do have book bans on such great books. The only reason why we don’t have book burnings like the ones in the book is because such an act of travesty violates our own Constitution. But in other places such freedom is not permitted everywhere. But that isn’t the topic of this blog because I am not here talk about our freedom of certain accords.

What I am blogging about is that the book Fahrenheit 451is remains today as a classical dystopian book because it was a story that touched upon issues that we are beginning to struggle with.  But in the book it’s just a bit more dramatic which made it more exciting to read. I wish right that there was another book because I would love to know what happened to Montag and if his contributions made any difference to his blinded sighted society. I do hope our technology doesn’t turns us into mindless drones like the ones in the book but instead connect our ideas and self with each other.