451° Is Fairly Warm (Honors English 1B Post #5)

     Fahrenheit 451 was only slightly painful to read. The book is split into 3 sections instead of chapters, which I'm not a big fan of. The beginning was extremely slow and boring to read. Ray Bradbury went into excruciating detail, which I find to be exhausting. An example of this is found on page 134, "The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burned!". I find this paragraph to be irritating to read. He repeats the words time, sun and burned so many times that it is a little confusing. 
My brain gets tired of reading those words over and over and it makes my mind drift off so that I don't even know what I'm reading anymore.

           I had so many questions during The Hearth and the Salamander that it was hard to get through. There was apparently a war going on, they went to a doctor who wasn't a real doctor, they had a room with TV for walls; it was confusing. Even though Bradbury did go into such detail, he kind of leaves it up to the reader to figure major questions in the book (does it make me a better reader? No. It makes me more confused.) The second part was much better. The pace of the book picked up and things started to make more sense (after my countless questions were answered). One of the worst things was that the ending was unsatisfying. It reminded me of Looking for Alaska by John Green. There was a ton of build up, and I was waiting for the climax of the plot, only to be let down by the unsatisfying and almost ambiguous ending. If I had to give the book a rating, I would say 6/10. I found things I liked about the book including the theme, but the description he went into bored me to no end. Who would like 451? If you are interested in futuristic, sci-fi, and plot twists, you might just enjoy 451.

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