Feb. 22, 2012 – For many of us here at UCLA, the newly renovated Charles E. Young Research Library has become a haven for the working student and for the deep-thinking, coffee-drinking intellectual. UCLA’s Café 451 in Charles E. Young Research Library is not just a great place to get coffee and think, but homage to one of American history’s greatest authors. “Fahrenheit 451″ is a dystopian novel about a society in which the owning of books has become banned by the government; all existing books are burned by “firemen” who drive around in fire trucks and literally burn piles of books, and entire houses, to the ground.
This is a feature story for the Daily Bruin’s Coffee Week.
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