[ChocChipCookie]

Do you think this book is suitable reading for 13 year old kids? I bought the book yesterday and have been thinking of putting it on my daughter’s summer reading list.

[lump in the melting pot]

Absolutely! Books like F451 make a person think, there is nothing wrong with pondering the (sometimes ugly) nature of the world and of human nature when you are 13. Beats the snot out of the vapid vampire & magic books that are all the rage (among the minority of teens who actually read) these days.

[knarf]

If your daughter can understand the concepts of big government, tyranny, right against wrong .. I'd say, yes.

I think if she were to then discover her school books are altered (Martin Luther King Jr but no George Washington, f'rinstance), it'll go a long way in shaping her political mind.

[dorothy]

I read it when I was 12 and it left a huge impression on me. It didn't frighten me as much as uplift me -- just the thought of groups of people recalling bits and snippets of literature so a whole could be recreated encouraged me to think well of my fellow man.

Should point out that I was an early reader and books were a very large part of my life (no TV where we lived), so that may have influenced me. You might read it first and then decide, but I see no reason not to offer it to her.

[Lee N. Field]

Do you think this book is suitable reading for 13 year old kids? I bought the book yesterday and have been thinking of putting it on my daughter’s summer reading list.

That would be about when I read it.