book burning and censorship in Ray Bradbury's futuristic fiction "Fahrenheit 451"

Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns. A good warning for aspiring librarians! In Ray Bradbury's futuristic fiction Fahrenheit 451, we are faced with the issues of book burning and censorship, also with the problems that the ignorance caused by these two things creates. The story is of Guy Montag, a fireman. A man who loves to burn books, or so he thinks. In his generation, the world has gone to pot. Idiocy …

…down, no on will be able to see the top of anything ever again, and if no one can, no one can describe it to anyone else, and a vast segment of knowledge is destroyed. I liked this novel a lot. I would recommend it to everyone. It is not very long, about 150 pages, but it contains more in those 150 pages then a lot of the books with 500 or more pages that I have read.