I mean, what was the point of even including her, then? Like so many other stories we were asked to read, this one makes no sense at all. Bradbury doesn't even get round to describing her breasts. Montag pretty much has the hots for her but he doesn't do anything because he's a freaking pussy and she's like 17. Then there's this crazy book lady who in another life would probably be keeping cats, and then she goes and sets fire to herself which just isn't a turn on at all.įinally, there's this hot girl named Clarisse who would be really great if she didn't talk so much, or at least got naked once in a while. She's old, and when Montag asks her to do shit she doesn't even do it. Mildred is Montag's wife so she's taken already. There are only three chicks in the novel, and none of them get naked at any time. You'd think that with all the torturous reading he makes us go through that Bradbury would give us something to get an erection over, but no. You can skip the rest of it and you won't miss much. People set fire to things on pages 11, 45–47, 124, 127, 128, 153, and the big explosion is on pages 166–169. There is also a big explosion at the end, but Bradbury plonks a whole load of metaphors and description and hard words like "displaced" and "gouts" in the middle of it so it's not really worth it.
There is a bit of burning like I saw on the cover but not really enough to be exciting. The book mainly contains people talking a lot or description about useless crap. Do they seriously expect everyone to have dictionaries or what? Then the blurb starts banging on about "Western civilisation's enslavement" and "poetic prose" and other long words like "prophetic".
It also talks about this Mechanical Hound which sounds cool but it's only mentioned a few times and it only kills one guy throughout the whole book. This is a bit odd because Fahrenheit 451 itself is a book but I guess we need to get the message across to those freaking intellectuals some way or another. In Montag's world, people have realised how fucking stupid books are and burn them all. Seriously, why did this book not have pictures!? It's just one of the reasons why I think, despite some cool-sounding moments, it overall sucked. He runs away from the city instead of still flamethrower-ing everyone who opposed him like the badass he could have been, and gets to watch the place nuked into smithereens. I'd do that too if I was forced to burn my TVs. Montag then burns his boss alive with his flamethrower, which is actually pretty awesome.
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He gets a nifty Bluetooth headset out of it.Įventually, Montag's boss, Chief Beatty, makes him burn down his own house when he finds out about all his garbage books. Montag finds he cannot understand the books (which is the one thing I actually found relatable), and he looks for this professor guy called Faber to dumb it down for him. What is with all of these weirdos hiding books in their houses when they have perfectly good parlor wall TVs? Even worse, he tries to make his wife Mildred watch them, when she probably has a perfectly good Netflix account to go with those TVs. There are also a loads of long, rambling speeches about the media and crap which you can easily skip if you want, I did.Īccording to the story, Montag is probably not that cool after all, since he secretly hoards books himself.
Other Crap Like That which Bradbury puts in to make him look clever. The story of the novel is hard to follow, because of all the Adjectives and Similes and Justa. It really is a shame that there are no pictures in this book, and they would have made it easier to read too. Even better, his job is to burn down the houses of people who are found to have books. Firemen are kinda cool and all, but what makes Montag really cool is that he has this flamethrower. The back of the book says that it is about this fireman called Guy Montag. Montag and his fireman buddies give another book-loving freak what he deserves.
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