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After seeing Fahrenheit 9/11, I mentioned to my daughters that this was really named that way because of Fahrenheit 451. I rented the movie for them so they could see what it was. I never remembered that this film had not credits to read -- all of the credits were read by an unseen announcer at the start of the film -- kind of appropriate given the sujbect matter, eh? Nowhere in the movie did you ever see a single written word anywhere. In fact, the first words you ever see are "The End" at the end.<br /><br />Anyway, one of my daughters wanted to read the book. So we've been reading it together and we got to a point where Mildred is preparing for her role in the interactive TV play. She has been provided a script from the TV show telling her what her lines are. Then my daughter pointed out that in the book there were written words (the script). I read right past that without noticing. My explanation was that writing perhaps is ok if it is government-controlled, and one must believe that in the F451 future *everything* is goverment-controlled including the TV programming. But if that were the case, one would expect to see goverment newspapers in the manner of the USSR's Pravda. I think this was a mistake in the book -- either there is reading allowed or there isn't. In the movie, Mildred didn't know her lines (she had no script) but the TV show went on whether she spoke or not and she was so blitzed by drugs that she was convinced that she got all her lines right.<br /><br />I'm not sure if F451 qualifies as Sci-Fi for the purposes of this forum. So far, I haven't seen anything in the book or the movie which is fictional science -- unless it is the blood-replacement treatment to cure an overdose. It just so happens that this story takes place in the future. Does a story in the future qualify for Sci-Fi on that basis alone? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>