Over spring break I read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book is about a dystopian society. The main character in this book is a "fireman" named Guy Montang who job instead of stopping fires is to burn books or start fires. Guy has always loved his job until one night when walking home from work he runs into a seventeen year old girl who is not like everyone else. She and her family have just moved in next door. They start to talk and she asks peculiar questions like "why do you burn the books, when they are full of history and knowledge?" and makes statements such as "you know once fireman's jobs were to prevent fires not start them." These questions strike Guy in a peculiar way making him rethink his career and life. Then this girl asks him the question that makes him think the most "are you happy?". Guy realizes he isn't happy and thats when he starts to change his life.
This book is a very interesting and in some ways meaningful read. It goes through how lives change. Its more of a serious book then some others I have read but still really good. This is a 165 pages so a very quick read. I would suggest this book for a lot of people.
Next week I will read The Client by John Grisham.
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