Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury...I had never read this book.  I guess it slipped through my school years somehow.  I heard a teen in the library say they had to read the book and they thought it was awful...and it peaked my interest.  I immediately checked out the audio book and on a trip to Seattle read it.  I have to say I was immediately hooked.  A fireman who burns things?  Interesting!  The more I listened, the more I got hooked.  The characters, the plot, and the answers to why anyone would burn a book...EEK as a Librarian that makes me cringe.  I decided to listen to the interview at the end of the disc.  I wondered about when this was written, what was going on in the world.  This was written right before the McCarthy era...and fear in the U.S. was running high...interesting to know what an author will guess may happen based on this fear.  Have I hooked you yet?