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Post by novastar6 on Feb 22, 2017 15:02:09 GMT
My all time favorite book, it was the biggest eyeopener of my life at 14 years old and forced me out of my comfort shell of only reading mystery/horror genres and started seeking out stuff I never thought I'd ever read in my life, just to see what was there. Who else has read it? What are your thoughts on it? And what parallels do you see between this book written over 60 years ago and our society today?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 17:17:24 GMT
Read it, loved it, but then I'm a Bradbury fan in general.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 22, 2017 19:26:36 GMT
It was the book that introduced me to Ray Bradbury, it was the book that MADE me a Ray Bradbury fan. I will always be grateful for Disney's show The Famous Jett Jackson, because they did an episode that featured Fahrenheit 451, I never saw the episode, but I saw the promo where the kids were asking 'jail? For reading a book?' and years later I remembered that, looked up the episode, went to the library the next day, and read that book all night. I was hooked from the word go.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 20:48:28 GMT
If I remember correctly, this was the first Bradbury I read also. If you haven't read it, check out his short story "The Fireman" which was the basis for this book. It's amazing to think that Farenheit 451 was written on a typewriter rented at a college library in nine days!
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 22, 2017 21:49:32 GMT
I have read The Fireman, it's one of the stories featured in Ray Bradbury's F451 related stories compilation, A Pleasure to Burn, which I also can't recommend enough.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 22:04:32 GMT
Yeah, I've loved everything I've read by him. I even loved his noir trilogy.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 22, 2017 22:29:51 GMT
I don't think I'm familiar with that one, what is it?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 1:31:55 GMT
Bradbury's depiction of future society is incredibly prescient and how technology begins to creates distances between us is something I overlooked the first time I read it. A well deserved classic. Not my favorite Bradbury but it's up there.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 3:39:32 GMT
His noir trilogy is;
1 - Death Is A Lonely Business
2 - A Graveyard For Lunatics
3 - Let's All Kill Constance
Bradbury admitted that the protagonist In these books was modeled after himself. They are a pretty fun read, and of course in the Bradbury style.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 23, 2017 5:00:34 GMT
I have 2 of the books, haven't gotten around to reading them yet. I sure didn't know it was a set.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 23, 2017 5:01:09 GMT
Bradbury's depiction of future society is incredibly prescient and how technology begins to creates distances between us is something I overlooked the first time I read it. A well deserved classic. Not my favorite Bradbury but it's up there. We sure can't overlook that now, can we? The man predicted iPods and plasma screen TVs. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 5:07:37 GMT
Ray Bradbury has 48 books and 212 uncollected stories.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 10, 2017 5:40:25 GMT
Did anybody ever think of Maris off Frasier when they read the description of mantis thin, pale skinned, brittle haired Mildred?
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Post by louise on Mar 10, 2017 13:56:14 GMT
Thought it was very impressive when i read it 45 years ago. But now it seems obsolete - I mean they could never hope to get rid of books nowadays, they are everywhere, not just on paper but on the interent, audiobooks etc. And to be honest i can't even remember why they wanted to get rid of all the books.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 10, 2017 14:03:58 GMT
Thought it was very impressive when i read it 45 years ago. But now it seems obsolete - I mean they could never hope to get rid of books nowadays, they are everywhere, not just on paper but on the interent, audiobooks etc. And to be honest i can't even remember why they wanted to get rid of all the books. Despite this, millions of copies of 1984 were deleted off of Kindle a few years ago, weren't they? And if it could happen once... And the actual burning was just a spectacle, a show for the public to watch given they always burnt at night when the flames would be more magnificent. Faber pointed out the public had quit reading of its own accord long ago. Which actually is not so obsolete because studies show 1 in 4 people only read 4 books in a year, and another 1 in 4 read no books in a year, the other 50% is anybody's guess. And we increasingly see people with the mindset 'I don't read any fiction, it's pointless' and other people who say 'books have no purpose anymore', even though as you pointed out they're everywhere beyond paper form. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 10, 2017 17:38:43 GMT
...great novel, and also a very interesting film w/Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. A favorite of mine by Ray is "The October Country" and "Dandelion Wine". Also, "Something Wicked This Way Comes" which was also a very interesting film w/Jason Robards.
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