4.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 25/05/2006

Montag is a fireman, and there job is to start fires - particularly books, which are banned. His wife watches TV all day - the populace are a pretty sedate and dim bunch; no free thinking. Montag wonders if there's more to life. His thinking is stimulated by Clarisse, a woman who has learned a lot from books... Montag begins to read, until his wife turns him in and the authorities come for him...

A frightening view of the future, with a thrilling escape from montag and an unusually hopeful ending. A brilliant little novel, and a sci fi classic.

5.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 04/04/2006

A brilliantlyly constructed look into an alternate and chilling future where books are banned and literary masterpieces are confiscated and burned in bonfires. Any persons found in possession of these books are also labelled and condemned as criminals and enemies of the people. The population is conditioned to report and even betray their own families for such infractions. The huge irony in all this is also the fact that the fires are actually set by firemen.
An original and imaginative premise. Ray Bradbury is a master storyteller .This is intelligent, disquieting but thought provoking. An absolute must read.

4.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 17/09/2011

What can I say about this book that hasn't been said already? Because of this, all I'm going to say is that it's a great book, and _a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM"_to watch this video_/a_.

2.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 13/03/2008

This book often gets compared to Brave New World and 1984. Which is unfair, because this book is not anywhere near their league. It is a good book, but not great. Bradbury creates a fantastic dystopian world, and the points that he makes on learning and knowledge are important, but I found myself unable to care about any of the characters. The second half, instead of being brilliant, became boring as the book moved slowly towards the conclusion. Okay, but not brilliant, and overrated.

3.0 out of 5 based on 5 reviews. – Customer review on 07/06/2007

Watch tv, sheeple.

In the future, books are banned, and drugs and the good old electronic screen are used to keep the population docile and uninformed. Firemen don't put out fires here, they burn books when they are found, in a big macho showy way. One such bloke begins to have doubts about his occupation and society, and breaks away.