- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The 60th Anniversary Edition. I enjoy Ray Bradbury. And his short story, There Will Come Soft Rains, takes place on August 4, 2026. Yes, last week. You can read that here.I haven’t read this book in decades. It’s a short one, and the anniversary edition has all sorts of nerdy academic scholarship in the back about the writing of the story.In the future, firmen set fires— to books. And one day, fireman Guy Montag decides to steal some books… and in this dystopian future, he ends up watching his city destroyed. He escaped the destruction because of his deviance, hiding from the powers that be saved his life.
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to love on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam…”
— Professor Faber
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