Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society. It is a world of the future where all printed publications are ruthlessly destroyed by... a special squad of firefighters, and the storage of books is prosecuted by law. Interactive television successfully serves universal dumbing down. Punitive psychiatry decisively deals with rare dissenters, while an electric dog goes hunting for incorrigible dissidents... A sensational statement by Bradbury in 2007 was that "Fahrenheit 451" is misunderstood. This book is not about government censorship; it is a story about how television destroys the interest in reading books.