Fahrenheit 451

This book was much more than I expected and I wish I had the words in me to write about it!
It is a story about the love for books, the love for people, about control, easy entertainment, instant gratification, critical thinking, detachment, humanity and all other things you may read between the lines.
It is a book of warning but also hope.

I've read the version with the Neil Gaiman introduction, which was brilliant.
Neil Gaiman wrote: “A young reader finding this book today, or the day after tomorrow, is going to have to imagine a past, and then a future that belongs to the past”.
This book is a possible future of a past I didn't live, however, as in other dystopia, we can find something it our present that relates to that future.
We don't have rooms with walls-screens but we carry them everywhere we go. We don't take part of a script but changed how we interact in way that, for me, confuses the line between family, friendship, acquaintances and strangers.
We know so many details about other peoples lives and about the good things that happen to them, leaving a false sense of connection.
We live in a non ending scroll and instant gratification loop affecting our critical thinking, giving space to new and old threats and different forms of manipulation.

I loved Fahrenheit 451 and cannot recommend it enough.