Fahrenheit 451

It has been over 6 months since I read this book. Sudden incidences sometimes make me relate to this book .If a book can make its presence felt when it was least expected, it has a charm.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years,and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think .And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...

A shorter version of this book appeared in a science fiction magazine in 1950. If an author can have such a depth of imagination even when the first television hadn't made its strong presence felt,imaginations are future realities I must say.

One of the recent instance when I could connect to this book was on my journey back from USA to HongKong when I suddenly looked around and found everyone looking into the screen and laughing. There is some minor randomly unrelated incident every week to which I can connect this book with. We live in the world Ray describes.Welcome to reality.







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