Too Loud a Solitude
1976 · 98 pages
Thirty-five years in a Prague cellar, Haňťa crushes wastepaper and saves the banned books he is paid to destroy, wrapping each bale in an art print with a rescued volume inside.
★ 5.5
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Fahrenheit 451
1953 · 256 pages
Montag burns books for a living until a neighbor's questions and a woman who chooses to burn with her library break him open. Bradbury's target is a public that stopped wanting to read.
★ 6.8