John asks what viewers thought of Fahrenheit 451 Part One and what makes their lives feel meaningful (2012)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2012-07-13) · owner: John
During the 2012 summer book club John asked what viewers thought of Part One of Fahrenheit 451 and what makes their lives feel meaningful. Hank answered three days later with his own view of Part One, disputing John's take on Clarisse.
Part of: Summertime Nerdfighter Book Club 2012 edition: Fahrenheit 451
About: Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse McClellan
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-07-10 | asked | John asks to hear what viewers (and Hank) thought of the book and what makes their lives feel meaningful, continuing in comments. | Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander 00:04:16 |
| 2012-07-13 | result reported | Hank answers John's book-club video with what he thought of Part One, disputing John's view of Clarisse, and says the book helps him understand what he loves about life. → refers to Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander | An Army of Mindless Drones 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-07-10 · Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander — John says Clarisse shakes Montag out of his thoughtless life, reintroducing him to nature until he literally tastes the rain, then disappears, presumably dead, like a manic pixie dream girl. — 00:01:21
- 2012-07-10 · Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander — John says Clarisse has already changed Montag: he is collecting books he ought to burn, threatening his career and his life. — 00:02:01
- 2012-07-10 · Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander — John calls Fahrenheit 451 an old-fashioned novel of ideas, like Jonathan Livingston Seagull or The Fountainhead, a kind of book that usually annoys him because it isn't really about its story. (hedged) — 00:03:18
- 2012-07-10 · Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander — John says that although he finds Clarisse totally unconvincing, he really loves the book because it is profoundly unsettling. — 00:03:32
- 2012-07-13 · An Army of Mindless Drones — Hank also thinks that, as a science-fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451 sketches its culture poorly, though it is a short book; he may save that discussion for next time. (hedged) — video description
- 2012-07-13 · An Army of Mindless Drones — Hank says John was terribly unfair to single out Clarisse as unrealistic in a novel full of unrealistic characters; as a professional constructor of fake teenagers John may be hypersensitive; Hank likes her. (hedged) — 00:00:29
- 2012-07-13 · An Army of Mindless Drones — Hank says Clarisse is him: a fairly well-adjusted member of our culture placed in Montag's as a counterpoint, opening the door for Montag to ours and for us to see how weird his is. — 00:00:58
- 2012-07-13 · An Army of Mindless Drones — Hank says the book is one of the few that lift him above his culture to ask why we do strange things, which is hard, almost inhuman, for a cultural being. — 00:01:56
- 2012-07-13 · An Army of Mindless Drones — Hank is thankful to the book for helping him examine himself and understand what he loves about life; he doesn't care how it does it, as long as it does. — 00:03:24