Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Review by Elleanore G. Vance Guy Montag is a fireman. No, not that kind of fireman, a Salamander fireman. He sets the fires. Hes not just burning books, but setting entire houses alight with kerosene. The reason for the legal arson; the crime? Owning books. Then a new family moves in and their neice begins to accompany Montag part of the way to work. They talk and Guy begins to question his entire life and his livelihood. His wife's most recent suicide attempt has him worried, but she is in denial that anything at all has happened. Suicide seems to be a well acknowledged issue in this society as some white cover-alled, cigarette smoking men show up to transfuse your blood and pump your stomach. All very routine and boring. I honestly suspect that a healthy dose of anitdepressants is given with the new blood, given how we see Mrs. Montag develop over the last two acts. In the first act, Guy awakens to his world, and in the second his wheels begin to spin. In the third, he secu