Fahrenheit 451

A Novel

De: Ray Bradbury

Narrado por: Penn Badgley

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley!

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

©1953 Ray Bradbury (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

Penn Badgley is the best Audible narrator EVER!

My headline says it all! I think Ray Bradbury would be VERY pleased with Penn's audio performance of "Fahrenheit 451."
By far my favorite Audible selection thus far.

Favorite book

Full of great wisdom + a very unexpected ending; Glad I used my free point on this, will read again.

Celebration of the individual!

Awesome short read. Very thought provoking. I loved it! It celebrates the individual. I lost my father years ago and this really reminded me of why I miss him so much.

Penn Badgley needs to narrate more audiobooks!

Only made it though thanks to narration by Penn Badgley!

Narration: 10/5⭐️
Story: 3/5 ⭐️

A masterpiece!

This book is a MASTERPIECE. If you haven't read it yet, just stop doing anything you are doing now and go get it. Read it. Then don't burn it, but instead read it again.

I can't comprehend how I haven't stumbled upon this book in my school years despite it being written in 1953. Everyone should read it. It should be a required reading.

I have listened to it in an audiobook format and the narration was perfect! I have to read it again in text format to enjoy all the details and nuances I've missed while not paying attention.
I loved Ray Bradbury’s immersive and sometimes a very enjoyably suggestive writing style.

Should be required reading

A masterpiece thematically with many symbols to track & ponder: fire/water; hands; various colors; black as destroyer & life giver; sterility/fertility; machine vs natural; serpents; live dead things, dead live things. & more. Read it; then read it again.

great book it gets you thinking

amazon conveys a strong message. great storyline. amazing literature and description. great read overall highly recommend

Loveddddd

A classic for a reason… but Penn Badgley’s narration? That took it to a whole new level. I ate it up. His voice added so much emotion, it made me love the story even more.

Bradbury lowkey feels psychic. This book is old but somehow still so freaking relevant today. It’ll keep a fire lit in my belly for reading forever.

And the quotes? Don’t even get me started…
🥹 “I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.”
🥹 “When people look at that tree or that flower you planted—you are there.”

Wrecked me. In the best way.

Please please have Penn narrate more books

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Penn Badgley’s narration of this title. If there are more Penn narrated classics put out I will be back for ALL of them.

Important read

Written in 1953 and very relevant to today. This book shows the importance of knowledge and individual thoughts. If taken away we are censored and forced to conform. There is a reason they want to ban this book.