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Barb takes care of the web orders here at Boffins, and is your contact for book club enquiries. She spends all her spare time curled up on the couch reading and for the last several years has reviewed books on the Afternoon Program on ABC radio Perth.
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is as relevant today as it was on publication 65 years ago. A future where historical truth is eradicated, the population is discouraged from thinking for themselves and pacified with endless TV programming? Hmmm, who would’ve thought? When Bradbury wrote his dystopian classic about a Giles Montage, the fireman whose job it is to burn houses where books are discovered, the disaster he foresaw was not the end of the book per se, but rather the loss of the knowledge that books hold. It is hard to read the novel without wondering what he would of thought of today’s fake news, reality TV and digital manipulation
