This is an essay on one of my favorite books written by one of the greatest authors Ray Bradbury.

Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns. The story is of Guy Montag, a fireman. A man who loves to burn books, or so he thinks. In his generation, the world has gone to pot. Idiocy and bliss run wild through the television sets of future day America. His wife is hooked on the 'tube', and they have been breed to believe that books are evil things. He lacks the bit of …

…if no one can, no one can describe it to anyone else, and a vast segment of knowledge is destroyed. I liked this novel a lot. I would recommend it to everyone. It is not very long, about 150 pages, but it contains more in those 150 pages then a lot of the books with 500 or more pages that I have read. It is truly a wonderful piece of work by my new favorite author Ray Bradbury.