Jamie's Book #11: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I have always wanted to read this book, but it ended up being different then what I expected. I knew the general plot - the story of a futuristic fireman whose job is to burn books, not stop actual fires. I thought the story would be more about the job of the fireman, but in actuality, it's mostly about the fireman's life after he realizes the books he's burning might be the very things that can save him from the meaningless life he lives.

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.” 

“The terrible tyranny of the majority.”

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