"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."

- Desiderius Erasmus

 

Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Copyright date: 1950

This is another great book that everyone should read! It's not just a book about the craziness of the future government that burns books. There is actually a ton of underlying philosophy that makes this book awesome.

The one thing about this book that amazed me most was that the government didn't impose the new laws on the citizens. The citizens themselves chose to stop reading. They chose to get rid of the books, and the government started burning the books because that's what people wanted.

This is another book (like 1984) that is a scary vision of our future. It's even more frightening because you can see the beginnings of this future around us now.