Of all the dystopias I read as a teen I think Fahrenheit 451 is the flimsiest thematically but the prose more than makes up for it
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On that level it's if anything much more relevant today than when written, even if the core metaphor of mass illiteracy is now outdated
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I feel like F451 hits on that middle ground between Brave New World and 1984 - we won't be kept in immiseration nor drugged into a haze
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