Melodramatic, guileless, with plenty of improbable details (Really? Montag and his wife couldn't remember where they met?) I nevertheless liked this book. If you're willing to 'suspend your disbelief' and, maybe, put your 1950's glasses on - ladies I'm talking to you - you'll find a good story with a message uncannily ahead of its time. Bradbury was right to suspect that one day we would cling to our technologies to keep us happy (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/sun...) preferring to turn to some kind of thoughtless entertainment or violent pastime, though thankfully that's turned out to be movies and video games rather than the actual running-down of pedestrians! He got the mood right, and despite the flaws, this book affected me: a classic, for sure.