Entries tagged with fahrenheit 451

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Dover Beach

I have finished Fahrenheit 451 and adored it - it will be one of those books that I will return to again and again, like Nineteen Eighty-four and Brave New World before it. So many beautiful quotes from Swift and Pope, but also Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach - of which the novel hinges so much.

( Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold )

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Collecting Biographies

I finished the Kim Noble book, very interesting. i would have loved to have seen more of her paintings and maybe an explanation from each personality. I seeming am picking up more biographies on artists. Long ago, I had one on Dali - recently I bought one on Tracey Emin, who interests me. I understood the concept of the bed and definitely the tent, though I am a bit confused about her neon work. Not everyone's cup of tea, I know, but I appreciate her journey.

Two Christmases ago, Hubby bought me a biography of Roald Dahl, which was fascinating and now I have one of C.S. Lewis. I am hoping to start the latter, as soon I have cleared the last of The Wide Sargasso Sea and made a proper effort with Fahrenheit 451.

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Summer Book List

Fahrenheit 451 is the first book of my reading list. The blurb says that it is a dystopian "post-literate future", which "stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World and a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity".

Kudos from The Times - "A disturbing tale that explores the maxim "Ignorance is Bliss" to its fullest; and the Sunday Telegraph - "No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest."

Looks like it is right up my street :-)