451' Fahrenheit

Ray Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of post-industrial society. The novel that brought its author worldwide fame. Bradbury's statement in 2007 that "Fahrenheit 451" is misunderstood was sensational. This book is not about government censorship, it is a story about how television is destroying interest in reading books. In the early 1950s, most Americans had never seen a television set, but Bradbury predicted a new era of freedom, prosperity and entertainment, when the desire to be happy, coupled with political correctness, would lead to the banning of books. "Colored people don't like the book "Little Black Sambo". Burn it... - White people don't like "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Burn that, too. Someone wrote a book about how smoking predisposes to lung cancer. The tobacco manufacturers are panicking. Burn that book.... a book is a loaded gun in your neighbor's house. Burn it! Unload the gun!"