Farenheit 451 Author:Ray Bradbury Set in a bleak future where thoughts are discouraged and ideas are illegal, "Farenheit 451" is the story of a troubled fireman named Montag who, as Ray Bradbury puts it, "suddenly discovers that books are flesh-and-blodd ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch". Montag is troubled because his job is not to put out fires, but to actuall... more »y start them. Specifically, he sets fire to any home containing that most illegal of commodities, the printed book. Montag's grave spiritual malaise culminates one day with him smuggling home that which he would destroy.« less