Mr. Bradbury visited the library where I worked - over 16 years ago. Loved the guy. Fahrenheit 451 is a bold prediction of a future that has every possibility of coming to fruition. read more
To me Fahrenheit 451 was about censorship and how controlling the masses meant limiting their frame of reference. Destroy the books, and you kill the concepts held within their pages. The beauty I found in 451 was as books were destroyed, how people became the books in order to pass them on and preserve the ideas inside. read more