It's funny how I hate Ray Bradbury a whole lot more than I hate George Orwell and FAHRENHEIT 451 is probably one one of the most poorly-written books I've ever had to read but as a whole, it's been a lot less harmful to political discourse than 1984, a book I actually enjoyed
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I will go to bat for F451 being, at least, a little deeper than people remember it as Like the big twist is that the Fire Chief is one of the Book People turned, mass culture didn't successfully defeat high culture, high culture *destroyed itself* and mass culture filled the gap
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Faber says this directly in his final speech, I think, and then Bradbury put the reveal of Montag's personal library in the stage adaptation, which he quotes in the afterword of the school edition "Once you must have loved books very much"
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