Thanks for reading Fahrenheit 451 with me

Thanks for spending the month of November reading Fahrenheit 451 with me. If you’d like to read books similar to this one, you may like:

The Handmaid’s Tale

1984

Brave New World

Ella Minnow Pea

If you’re interested, here’s a link to an interview Ray Bradbury did with LA Weekly back in 2007 where he talks about the real warning behind the book (hint: he’s not thinking it’s government censorship that’s the problem) and how Fahrenheit 451 has been misinterpreted all these years.

Casting about: Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s book was first made into a film by Francois Truffaut in 1966 starring Oskar Werner as Guy Montag and Julie Christie as Clarissa. A new version is in production and scheduled out in 2010. So who do you see as Guy, Mildred, Capt. Beatty, and Clarissa? Share your thoughts in the comments section!

The future is now

In the 55 years since Fahrenheit 451 was published, how much, if any, of its science fiction credibility has it lost? How close does the book come to our 2008 world? Do the events in the book still seem like a possible future? Do you think the book is as suprising now as it might have been to readers in 1953?