Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

 There's so much to say about this book, I read it prior to Camus book but am just now giving a bit of a comment on it. I will be short, like the novels I've read this month. 

Bradbury beautifully at times with an awkward and unnecessarily complicated ways describes one mans adventure and awakening. Awakening is nowadays a dirty word, since the so called "pandemic" that is. 

Much of Bradbury's world reflects our own, he wrote it in the 1950's yet accurately describes what it feels like for man to be constantly connected to a screen in a world where empathy and human contact is minimal. I fear that his predictions where right, we are in a time when novels have become shorter because people don't have the patience to read, or maybe, they're like I, trying to reach my goal of 54 books this year. 

However people need leisure time, and this is something that our modern world cannot afford. Like the content moderators of Hanna Bervoets book "we became less human" Do we have time to pause, to wake up from a dreamlike hazy existence and see, really behold the faces we love? 

I'd recommend Fahrenheit for anyone who is like me, a book worm, struggling to get to a certain goal. Booklovers can relate: there are never enough books on my shelf and there's unlikely a time where I will have read them all. Like in the song of U2 I'm still trying to "put my arms around the world". There's no harm in trying to grasp the beauty of it all. 

Finally the city where Guy Montague, the awakened hero of Bradbury's story once lived is annihilated by what i suppose is an atomic bomb or nuclear explosion of some sort and while making his way back to this city with a bunch of academic men and a priest he then recalls a paragraph from the book of Revelations. However I am extremely glad that the city therein described is one out of this world.  

Guy learns alongside the reader that books are just one expression of humanity, there are other sides to the coin, nature, family, social life, actual life, life beyond the screen, life in the wild and green, life outside of the city. When thinking of the many years of humanity or if ever one studies a course of history, one realizes that cities where the most miserable places of all. 

If only we could all afford to live on farms. 

Finally to give some coherent summary or review on Fahrenheit I'd say that half way through I was extremely bored but then came the parts of how literature serves life and is just one reflection of humanity and I liked it a lot, helps to keep things in perspective as I continue to build on my very own precious library.   

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