Fahrenheit 451
Well, as you can guess by the picture, my favorite book is Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury in the year of 1953. It's a special book for me because it was a gift of my first girlfriend when I was 15 years old and for any reason that I still don't know the book is very meaningful to me, even after the realationship with this girl broken up, I think (but I'm not sure at all) it's because the plot of the book is very similar to my personal analysis of the modern society.
In this book Ray Bradbury tells the story of a distopic society in which the fireman don't put out the fires, in fact, they have the "mission" of burn all the books of the city, because all the knowledge saved in the books is prohibited by the government. The central history is about one of this fireman called Guy Montag and a girl called Clarisse. I don't want to make a spoiler because I seriously recommend this book, so I'm only going to say is that Clarisse starts to speak with Guy Montag and makes him think about his happiness doing his "job".
I think that this book is fantastic because it has a lot of the actual society in the way that we are basically controlled by the technology and many other ways of entertainment are considered borimg, critic capacity of the society is every day more poor, so is easy to control it.
One quote of this book that I consider is fantastic because it reminds me the burn of the books in the military dictatorship of Chile (1973-1989) is:
"Burn it all, absolutely all. The fire is clean and brilliant"
I really hope that it never happens (again)...
Many people have told me about that book. Do you have the book to lend it to me?
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