I want to pull all of these pieces together into a quotes dump one day so that I can simply read them when I need motivation. I've been reading a bunch of books about creativity this year so when I find any good line about it in any book, I highlight it. The grand thing is to plunge ahead and see what your passion can reveal. He also gave an insight into his writing process-how he often doesn't know what he's writing until he is actually writing. He spoke about how he wrote the book in 9 days, the circumstances them, and how a bunch of his previous short stories came together in this story. It was in the author's special foreword for the book's fiftieth anniversary. I tend to choose the set first and decide on the exact colours based on what I wanted to highlight while reading. I didn't choose exactly which colours I would use. I also chose a set of sticky tabs that matched the book cover in some way. I planned on selling the book back to the second-hand bookstore I frequent so I didn't want to make permanent marks. Whenever I pick up a new book, I make some flexible decisions about annotation based on my expectation of the book, my mood, and whether I want to unhaul the book soon.įor Fahrenheit 451, I decided that I would use only sticky tabs. My copy is blurbed by Barack Obama and has a special foreword and afterword by the author where he talks about how the book came to be and what it has led to. Surprisingly, I picked this book up mere weeks after buying it instead of procrastinating for months (or years) like I generally do.
Somehow, I'm a little more open to trying new books-especially ones out of my comfort zone-when I come across them in the bookstore.
On my next bookstore visit, I passed by the book and impulsively picked it up. my review & moreįahrenheit 451 was never a big spot on my radar but someone I follow spoke highly about it a few weeks back which made me intrigued. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.Ĭontent Warnings: brainwashing, violence, suicide, murder, war, injury, oppressive government. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
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