I hate dystopian stories in general, so my views on this book are clearly biased. The premise was sort of interesting - clearly a world without books is my idea of an inner circle of hell - but the way the story played out fell a bit flat for me. Perhaps reading this in graphic novel form isn't the best way to experience Bradbury's classic, despite the fact that this was an authorized version: I felt that I missed some of the key information in the dark, impressionistic graphics. The story felt like something that was crafted to teach high school students some sort of moral about the importance of ideas and literature, and I don't much like to be preached at. Come to think of it, maybe I should change my rating - I really didn't enjoy this one at all.