Fahrenheit 451

A Novel

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Penn Badgley

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley!

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Critic reviews

"Like many sci-fi authors, Bradbury predicted many of today’s less admirable achievements, such as earbuds and huge TVs. So not surprisingly, this 1953 title is timeless. Penn Badgley, pleasant-voiced and convincing, is an outstanding narrator. His tone resonates with personality, and his subtle character shifts are effective, especially as he portrays this novel’s antihero, a fireman whose job is to burn books. Badgley’s pace is quick yet easy to follow. Even longer monologues are clearly phrased. He can offer a warm observation one minute and turn into a cold commentator the next, skillfully making Bradbury’s message accessible. At one point, exhorting the protagonist to actively embrace life, one character says, “Stuff your eyes with wonder.” This audiobook invites you to do the same with your ears."

the compelling story of the world and how it is now, through the eyes of a man from the 1940s.

love the story and how the setting is placed in, one by one. Love it!

Great story

I loved listening too it but his voice was kind of unsettling but overall great story

A masterpiece!

This book is a MASTERPIECE. If you haven't read it yet, just stop doing anything you are doing now and go get it. Read it. Then don't burn it, but instead read it again.

I can't comprehend how I haven't stumbled upon this book in my school years despite it being written in 1953. Everyone should read it. It should be a required reading.

I have listened to it in an audiobook format and the narration was perfect! I have to read it again in text format to enjoy all the details and nuances I've missed while not paying attention.
I loved Ray Bradbury’s immersive and sometimes a very enjoyably suggestive writing style.

Should be required reading

A masterpiece thematically with many symbols to track & ponder: fire/water; hands; various colors; black as destroyer & life giver; sterility/fertility; machine vs natural; serpents; live dead things, dead live things. & more. Read it; then read it again.

Boring

couldn't finish this book. I read half, hard to follow, story wasn't going anywhere. was just a boring story.