This is a long post, but tl;dr title. I know that it's a dystopian future, and there's a highly controlling government(?) that does book burning. Is it a bummer? (Like 1984 was?)
I listen to audiobooks while sewing, gardening, cleaning on weekends and breaks (teacher). I usually listen to rom-coms because the world sucks and I just need some silly little book with a genre-guaranteed happy ending.
I just finished reading 1984, and that book is a certified bummer. Literally the whole time was terrible. And it's not the book's fault! There's soooo many parallels to today, that it just wasn't a dystopian future. My husband read it in 2016-ish and I told him it's only gotten worse, they have AI pictures!!
Anyway, the book ends, and it was not happy. I reread a lot of my favorite YA dystopia during lockdown, and (much like rom-coms) the genre basically requires hope, and resistance. Separately, I read The Handmaid's Tale in 2020 and it was not nearly as much of a bummer (though trying to watch the show this last year was).
I got some really cute fabric with matches and flames that I want to make a dress from. And thought I should read Fahrenheit 451 and see if that inspires me.
I'm not asking for your response to be spoiler free, or to explain the entire book. Just, generally, in this current timeline we are in, would it be a bad idea for me to read Fahrenheit 451? Or is there enough separation from current reality that it would still feel like fiction?
Also, what other similar classic and paralleled to reality books should I be reading to understand protest signs better?
Thanks in advance!
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