Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This book was written about 50 years ago, so it is in a different style of writing than more modern books, which makes it a bit of a harder read, but still a good one.
This book is in the future, but it is the future from 50 years ago, so it doesn't have aliens and lasers or anything. No new inventions, but people think a different way. Knowledge isn't worth anything, and TV screens cover all four walls in the room, and pointless facts are screamed endlessly into peoples face. The book goes something like this:
It is about a guy named Guy Montag, but he is referred to as Montag most of the time. He is a fireman, who's job is starting fires. He burns illegal books (all books) and the houses they are found in. One day, he meets a girl who makes him rethink his life, and he starts to rebel, which gets him into a lot of trouble. I really can't think of what else happens, because most of it is about how Montag is thinking, which is really hard to sum up into a summary.
It has a little bit of an abrupt ending, but the last ten or few pages give a sense of ending, so although it has an abrupt ending, you knew it was coming and were ready for it. So I think it works well.
This book was written about 50 years ago, so it is in a different style of writing than more modern books, which makes it a bit of a harder read, but still a good one.
This book is in the future, but it is the future from 50 years ago, so it doesn't have aliens and lasers or anything. No new inventions, but people think a different way. Knowledge isn't worth anything, and TV screens cover all four walls in the room, and pointless facts are screamed endlessly into peoples face. The book goes something like this:
It is about a guy named Guy Montag, but he is referred to as Montag most of the time. He is a fireman, who's job is starting fires. He burns illegal books (all books) and the houses they are found in. One day, he meets a girl who makes him rethink his life, and he starts to rebel, which gets him into a lot of trouble. I really can't think of what else happens, because most of it is about how Montag is thinking, which is really hard to sum up into a summary.
It has a little bit of an abrupt ending, but the last ten or few pages give a sense of ending, so although it has an abrupt ending, you knew it was coming and were ready for it. So I think it works well.
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