In May the Arroyo Book Club will be participating in LA’s Big Read program. In consequence, we will be reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Let me use one of the paragraph’s from the Big Read site as my book description…
When did science fiction first cross over from genre writing to the mainstream of American literature? Almost certainly it happened on October 19, 1953, when a young Californian named Ray Bradbury published a novel with the odd title of Fahrenheit 451. In a gripping story at once disturbing and poetic, Bradbury takes the materials of pulp fiction and transforms them into a visionary parable of a society gone awry, in which firemen burn books and the state suppresses learning. Meanwhile, the citizenry sits by in a drug-induced and media-saturated indifference. More relevant than ever a half-century later, Fahrenheit 451 has achieved the rare distinction of being both a literary classic and a perennial bestseller.Check out Big Read’s page on the book (http://www.neabigread.org/books/fahrenheit451/). You will find lots of additional information including discussion questions.
Because it’s the Big Read program, the book will be yours to keep ---- while supplies last so come early for your copy.
