Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (Ray Bradbury Graphic Novels)

This is a fine example of how classic science fiction should be adapted into graphic form. Tim Hamilton's artwork manages to convey the dreary minimalism of Bradbury's nightmare world, without itself being both drab and prosaic. He is smart enough to leave large chunks of Bradbury's poetic dialogue raw and intact, while the artwork is so detailed as to do justice to the authors original lush descriptive language. I wish Tim Hamilton would do a whole slew of Bradbury adaptations along with some of the other sci-fi greats, yet I'm sure he has his reasons for not doing so.A superb story with a profound message, which can be enjoyed on many levels. I think any fan of the novel, would be pleasantly surprised by how lovingly and faithfully Tim Hamilton has reformed this master work into the graphic medium. Sublime and highly recommended.

The graphic novel of Ray bradbury's classical novel is good-conducted in pictures. I recommended previously read the book.

Based on the classic novel by Ray Bradbury, this comic adaptation does the piece justice.This is a tale where the government is totalitarian, constant war with faceless, nameless nations, citizens are brainwashed by constant daytime soaps, fed narcotics and all freedom of speech and creativity is essentially outlawed.The firemen come to destroy books, thos things which the government say make us unhappy.Fiction is banned. No Moby Dick, no Tolkien, no Christmas Carol, no Harry Potter.One fireman, Guy Montag, begins to wonder what is so dangerous about books which make you feel, think, laugh and cry. He hides a book, and everything in his ordinary, dull life begins to unravel...This book is a masterpiece genius on Ray Bradbury's behalf. Written in just over a week on a rented typewriter and first published in Playboy, this story would become the basis for many sci-fi writer's triumphs today.Reflecting a world which was futuristic back in the 1960s this books encapsulates how our own world could easily become that of Guy Montag's.If you're not afraid of these ideas, purchase this comic but also give the original novel a try first. It has an important message.

I was expecting a travesty but was delighted. Obviously it's better to read the book because your imagination has more power to create images than you can get from a paperback. However the quality of the illustrations and selection of text was superb and as an abreviated version of an outstanding novel I reckon it says everything you need to know about the book.A picture says a thousand words and some of these pictures were worth more.

Guy Montag is a fireman, he burns things, because that’s what firemen do, they burn things, and specifically, they burn books. "Burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes" is the firemen’s moto, and Guy is a happy fireman. Kerosene smells like perfume to him, and every day is an adventure, even if his home life is in shambles. Then the fireman meets the young vivacious Clarisse McClellan, who abstains from most of society's non-textual entertainments in lieu of walking and discussions. Then one day Guy is witness to an old woman immolating herself by fire, using her kerosene soaked books as her funeral pyre. Guy crosses the line, he steals a book, one of many; his semi-comatose wife finds it, he takes a day off from his job, and his boss shows up to check on Guy. It’s here that he, and we, get a lecture on why books are banned, and as his boss leaves, he delivers to Guy a non-too veiled warning. With this, and that Clarisse and her family suddenly disappearing from the neighborhood, Guy finds that his life is going to change forever, and with these changes he also finds that he will never be able to go back to the life that he once had lived. Because now he's hoarding books, he's reading them, he's thinking, questioning, learning, and he's realizing that the history that he's learned, and has been taught, has been rewritten, and faked, and all that he thought that he had known is wrong. And things continue to cascade as old alliances and relationships will corrode and dissolve, while new ones will be forged, and Guy finally realizes that his life has been a waste, and just how lonely he is. This is emphasized on page seventy-two when we get the lines "I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls." Which is a perfect little soliloquy about how it feels to be lonely in a world full of friends, and family, that you can't talk to, and you find yourself disconnecting from your life as you find yourself falling into solitude. And as the novel continues, Montag’s disintegration and rebirth is paralleled by his society's own disconnectedness from its citizens, and how this will cause his society to have its own phoenix moment. Bradbury constructs this future on what he was seeing happening around him in the early fifties. In "Fahrenheit 451" a frustrated Bradbury gave us a cynical, and angry story with a cautiously optimistic ending, that is dystopian and apocalyptical. And to illustrate it, Tim Hamilton gives us page after page of beautiful, yet dark, moody, and expressionistic artwork that manages to capture all that Bradbury was trying to covey, while not getting in the story's way. While the novel is necessarily condensed somewhat for this graphic adaptation, and while it won’t take the place of the original, it is an excellent companion piece to the original that can only help enrich the experience of reading Bradbury's work, while standing well on its own. Looking back, it's obvious that Bradbury was angry at both the liberal left with its political correctness and willing to overlook the failure of Stalinism, while being equally angry at the radical right with its constant fear mongering and its rewriting of history to fit its own means. With "Fahrenheit 451" Bradbury manages to warn against the rewriting of history for society's principals own ends, remote control wars, judging politicians by their looks, and not their brains, vacuous entertainment as a drug, and modern society's isolation, all of which have come to pass in spades. Science fiction has always been political, from H. G. Wells, to Heinlein, to Asimov, to Clarke, Niven, Pournelle, and so on. And as such, it, at its best, becomes dangerous, and this is a dangerous book. With Hamilton’s great illustrations "Fahrenheit 451"'s message becomes easily digestible and consumed, thus making it extremely dangerous to those with closed minds who wish for dogmatism, instead of the ability to question, inquire, and to think. Bradbury's book is a book that always seems to be on the lists of books to be banned by the scared and the politically bluenosed, and if you’ve never read it, try this graphic novel version to start with, and you’ll see why it threatens so many, and why it is considered a threatening tome.

I must make clear, that I in no way wish to soil this book just because I have given it a two star rating.I borrowed the Novel from the library (how often does that happen anymore?) and was blown away. It set my imagination leaping from image to image, idea to idea and page to page. How things like the wall screens mirror todays wall mounted 50" flat screen TV's (forever getting bigger) and the "family" a step away from the social network addiction/craze - often real life soaps in themselves each of us playing our part. Governments send us off to wars we dont really know the motives behind or understand, reality tv shows, media controlled popular opinion, ignorance and a thirst for immediate aesthetic pleasures which are cheapend and devalued as they become ever easier to obtain.And then I bought this, the graphic novel, and it just could not compare. I enjoy comics and the sort but I could not bring myself to read even half of this. It was too far removed from the effect the book had had on my views. I will one day go back to it but dissapointed.I do not feel the bits that I read were doing it justice and too much was missing from the story. Buy the book, its a short easy read and you may well be changed forever by it.

Needed this book for my English class and it was made very well and came in very quickly. It has survived getting tossed around in my back pack this semester and looks brand new sitting on my bookshelf now!

La calidad de impresión y el libro en general es muy buena, las ilustraciones también

Lieferung pünktlich, ohne Probleme.Lektüre war für den Englischunterricht.

Beautiful art. One of my favorite novels, and this graphic novel is a great representation of this story. I highly recommend t to any fans of Ray Bradbury, or fans of classics turned into graphic novels.

Awesome adaptationAmazon has so many books that comic shops just don't keep in there shelves