Fahrenheit 451 is a modern day 'classic', published in 1953 by Ray Bradbury.
It has a Sci - Fi futuristic theme to it. In my opinion, it is not bad, but I think it could be more exciting.
The main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic city (probably in America). In this city, firemen burn books, and start fires, instead of putting them out. The people in this society are very 'in their own world' (eg. when a war starts, most of the citizens of this society don't even know about it. Common pleasures of these citizens are: driving very fast, watching excessive amounts of television on wall-size sets, and listening to the radio on 'radio sea - shells'.
Montag encounters a gentle seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who opens his eyes to the emptiness of his life with her innocently penetrating questions and her unusual love of people and nature. Montag starts to doubt himself, and suddenly he finds his world turning upside down.
I did enjoy, however, how Bradbury predicted future inventions, and clothing. He did so well.
I recon we should get the movie out, as it would
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