Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

How I Found: In honor of this year's banned book week, I spent some time with one of my all-time favorites, Fahrenheit 451. The irony of this book being banned and censored when the message is to bring books back to a culture that relies instead on technology and danger for entertainment makes it worth a yearly re-read. Not to mention how eerily closer and closer the similarities between the dystopia and our own society grow.  From the decades-ago that I first read this book, until now, there have been leaps and bounds in the advances of technology matched with Bradbury's other frightening predictions for our future; the discomfort of reading this too-close-for-comfort book, may be just the wakeup call society is dialing for.  
Why You Might Read: One can't help but hope that every reluctant or reticent reader has the opportunity to delve into this short novel that packs so much between its less than 200 pages. It will spark ideas never considered about the hows and why of reading that may just be the nudge needed toward starting their own reading fire. And, if you're among the bibliophiles of the world, read it for the first time or again. I have no doubt you'll appreciate its ability to add fuel to your fire even if your just coming back to it like an old friend met around a campfire. 

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Tell Me:  Have you read this book?  What did you think?