An Unexamined Life is not worth Living in Ray Bradbury's, "Fahrenheit 451"
"'Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.'" Dearest Readers, I cannot believe it's been almost four months since I last posted! After long and rather unusual semester back at school, I have finally found the time to once again pick up a book for leisure. To kick off my rather long list of Winter-break reads, I chose a novel I've been meaning to crack open for several years now: Ray Bradbury's infamous Fahrenheit 451 . I was already fairly familiar with the general storyline of this book, but nevertheless took it upon myself to further discover what this renown piece of modern American literature was really all about. "'What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...It's p...
