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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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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But it was always obvious from reading the book itself Beatty is one of those PhDs in English lit who played the crab-bucket game of seeking prestige and influence and status by proving how smart and insightful he was until he was like "Burn it all down"
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