Of all the classic dystopian books, I like this one best. Bradbury combines the underlying authoritarianism with the bread and circuses use of technology into something that is clearly related to what we live today in the West. He also incorporates the idea of alienation - alienation from others, alienation from the self. Isolation and medicated depression in the midst of a society of happiness. His characters also have a bit more substance, a bit more humanity than the other two books.
At the heart of the books society is an issue that is very much topical right now - the issue of identity and living with diversity. The book's solution is mindless self-replicating mass identity. (Similar idea behind the Homelands concept in "Adjustment Day".
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