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Fahrenheit 451

A Novel

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Fahrenheit 451

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Penn Badgley
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A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley!

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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"Like many sci-fi authors, Bradbury predicted many of today’s less admirable achievements, such as earbuds and huge TVs. So not surprisingly, this 1953 title is timeless. Penn Badgley, pleasant-voiced and convincing, is an outstanding narrator. His tone resonates with personality, and his subtle character shifts are effective, especially as he portrays this novel’s antihero, a fireman whose job is to burn books. Badgley’s pace is quick yet easy to follow. Even longer monologues are clearly phrased. He can offer a warm observation one minute and turn into a cold commentator the next, skillfully making Bradbury’s message accessible. At one point, exhorting the protagonist to actively embrace life, one character says, “Stuff your eyes with wonder.” This audiobook invites you to do the same with your ears."
Relevant Themes • Timeless Classic • Emotional Narration • Poetic Writing • Compelling Story • Thought-provoking Content

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love the story and how the setting is placed in, one by one. Love it!

the compelling story of the world and how it is now, through the eyes of a man from the 1940s.

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I loved listening too it but his voice was kind of unsettling but overall great story

Great story

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Read as a kid maybe 10ish. Forgot chunks of it. Still recommend. Describes technologies and events of today. Sad we match dystopian novels.

Rating 4.51

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Awesome short read. Very thought provoking. I loved it! It celebrates the individual. I lost my father years ago and this really reminded me of why I miss him so much.

Celebration of the individual!

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Penn Badgley voice and manner of reading was perfect for this book. The book, of course, is amazing. I have read it before but it never fails to amaze me. I am awestruck by Bradbury’s writing.

Excellent reading of a great book

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