paperback, 188 pages

Dutch language

Published Nov. 19, 1993 by Het Spectrum.

ISBN:
978-90-274-3283-4
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OCLC Number:
66259306

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4 stars (40 reviews)

Schrikbeeld van een maatschappij waarin het boek wordt vernietigd en boekbezitters worden vervolgd.

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Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Una novela infantiloide. Y no me refiero a los personajes, que viven en un sistema que los quiere idiotizados, me refiero a la forma en la que está escrita, parece un libro dirigido a niños o a gente de derecha (que ya sabemos que no le da la cabeza para mucho). Si quieres una buena distopía: 1984.

Review of 'Fahrenheit 451' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This book was on my list of 'important books I somehow did not read before now'. It is such a cultural reference point that one assumes everyone has read it, but I suspect that although most people understand the title (the point at which books burn), they may be like me and have not bothered to actually pick it up.

It is reminiscent of Atwood's 'Handmaid's Tale', and falls into that category of 'futurology' that edges on Sci-Fi because by necessity it must speculate about how the future will work, but is really a different genre. Like Atwood's work, It is more concerned with how society may work in future, rather than how machines will work. That said, it is astonishingly prescient when the book does speculate, for instance the mechanical hound and the interactive entertainment screens.

As it is a novel depicting dystopia, one naturally wishes to locate it …

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