Fahrenheit 451

My dad told me this book was boring. HE WAS WRONG! Which is weird, because all the books he think are boring, I usually dislike too. Like Lord of the Flies and 1984.
Anyway, Fahrenheit 451 was really good. It was written by Ray Bradbury a while back, but it's about a DISTANT future, probably somewhere are 3000 or 4000. But it's always cool to see how people from the past predict the future will turn out. In this novel, Mr. Bradbury imagines wallscreen size TVs, mechanical beasts run on artificial intelligence, walkie talkies that fit in your ear, and doorbells that can announce who's there. For someone who has a huge imagination, he wasn't that far off. Think of what we have today: plasma screens and movie screens, robots, earphones and cell phones, security systems... Movies and books like that always fascinate me.
But the main point of the book was about a fireman, Mr. Guy Montag. Montag is not the type of fireman we know today; in fact, the occupation of fireman as we know it today isn't believed in anymore in our time, because nothing ever catches fire on accident. Fireman in Montag's time are used to burn houses containing books down. But one day Montag meets a girl named Clarisse. She's seventeen and instead of asking how, asks why. Why is nature like it is, why are humans on Earth, and just why? One day she mysteriously disappears and Montag's wife Mildred said she diedm which isn't uncommon these days. Montag starts getting curious, though. What if... he took a home a book he was supposed to burn? What if he read it? What if he discovered that reading gave him ideas, and power, and things that were needed to change the world? And what if someone found out he possessed a book?
For a book that was written a long time ago, it sure is a page turner, and a quick read. Fahrenheit 451 turns out to be a classic I'm so glad I read.