Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Hearth and the Salamander

3: "It was a pleasure to burn." The opening line of the novel is so simple, and yet so effective in setting the tone for Bradbury's dystopia.
6: This is the first scene of dialogue, and it all reads far too British for me to buy into this as an American setting. (Example: "How oddly you say that.")
22: Bradbury does an excellent job of creating tension here. He also manages to begin showing the reader that Montag does not love his life, by having Montag insist that he does.
49: Here, Bradbury miffs me. Montag vommits on the floor, and his wife's reaction is, "Why'd you do that?" Even in this dystopia, even with this lethargic slug of a woman, I find "Why'd you do that?" an unlikely reaction.