Fahrenheit 451

2.5? I think I'll have to try this in print to see if my opinion changes.
My disappointment is partially my own fault, I thought that this story was going to be so much more. What I mostly had heard about this book was ‘it's a future dystopian novel where books are illegal and burned, so those who resist memorize books'. The characters that memorized books didn't happen until the end. Additionally, those characters aren't interesting, or at least not near as interesting as the ones I had dreamed up.

The writing at times is masterful, it's Bradbury and he is very capable of turning a lovely phrase, structuring something to make you think, or including fantastic imagery. However he was also wordy, and worse: came off as bitter. You can be bitter, but make a cogent point, move the story, convey something meaningful. It's somewhere between a cautionary tale and a bitter man yelling at the younger generation.

I appreciated J.G. Keely's review and agree that Bradbury mixes up message and medium.

I still love you(r work), Bradbury, even if you did have a pissy afterword that includes you rejecting the merit of female characters – at least that's how it came off.