Fahrenheit 451 (TV Tie-in Ed.)

華氏451度──紙張的燃點燒掉一本書的方法不止一種，而這個世界上到處都有拿著點燃火柴的人《華氏451度》是二十世紀的文學傑作，背景設在黯淡而貧乏的反烏托邦世界，以一個壓制自由的未來社會、禁止人們擁有與閱讀書籍的故事，深刻描寫出現代人在不自覺中，反受科技和娛樂禁錮的存在狀態。「書本變薄，然後是濃縮、消化過的版本，最後成了摘要，摘要的摘要的摘要，二句話……」故事中的世界，人們只談論一些無意義的事，快樂是最高指標，思考會帶來不必要的煩惱，而書則是擾亂平靜的怪獸。蒙塔格是一名打火員，在他的世界裡，電視主宰著一切，文學則瀕臨滅絕；打火員的工作成了放火而非滅火。他的工作就是要摧毀非法的產品，也就是印刷書籍，以及藏匿這些書籍的房子。蒙塔格從來不去質疑自己的行為造成了什麼樣的破壞和損失，每天只是回到他無趣的生活和他的妻子蜜卓身邊，而她的妻子整天只會陪著她的電視「家人」。但這時，他遇見了古怪的年輕鄰居克萊莉絲，她讓他知道原來過去的世界裡，人們不必生活在恐懼中；在現今的世界裡，還是有人可以透過書本裡的思想來看待一切，不必仰賴電視中無腦的談話。就在克萊莉絲突然消失之際，蒙塔格開始質疑自己所知道的一切；一次出勤行動中，寧可與書俱焚的老婦人更讓他在心中深植這個想法──書本裡肯定有什麼。他開始在家裡藏書，而當他的偷竊行為被發現時，這個打火員得開始亡命天涯……The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. `Another indispensable classic' The Times `'Ray Bradbury's gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world' Barack Obama Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.