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― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 31 March 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)

bradburywithfez.jpg is my new desktop. Life, as a result, improves.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:15 (twenty years ago)

most of the stories in the october country, illustrated man and martian chronicles are permanently lodged in my brain. motherfucker scared the shit out of me when i was about 11.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

i have a signed "fahrenheit 451" paperback.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:40 (twenty years ago)

i really like "rocket summer", "ylla", "the earth men" and "mars is heaven". oh yeah, and "way in the middle of the air", "night meeting" and "the musicians". man, what a book.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:48 (twenty years ago)

"ylla" / "earth men" / "mars is heaven" ... man, what a trilogy. brutal, really.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:48 (twenty years ago)

his imagination is endless. how does someone have such an endless imagination? i just started reading the short stories for the first time in the last couple of years and i have been blown away and it makes me sad that he wasn't my favorite writer when i was kid. i might have turned out better. instead i just read stephen king. i want to go back in time and leave ray bradbury books around for my teenage self to read. there is a story in there somewhere.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

There's a decently reviewed stage production of 451 currently up off-Broadway.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

i love ray bradbury!! he is such a beautiful writer.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

he was my favorite writer as a kid and look how i turned out, scott.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

i love ray bradbury!! he is such a beautiful writer.

my only caveat is that i think his writing got worse as he became more self-consciously writerly. some of his later stuff is kinda florid.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

i am reading something wicked this way comes now.
i love this man.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

i love his writing and am grateful for his books, but the dude has some somewhat hardcore luddite feelings about tech today and i kinda grapple with that. i mean, most good sci-fi gives is chocked with warnings about tech, etc. but... sometimes it's just frustrating when someone seems so open to the possibilities in imaginary worlds, yet is so closed to the possibilities in reality.

dudes like him and aasimov and clarke and stuff have inspired generations of scientists and engineers... and now to have him dragging his feet on certain populist tech issues is troubling. it's like our preacher kicked us in the nuts and told us God doesn't exist after converting us.

it's a grey issue i have tho cause cautionary tales are good. and perhaps we may have just missed his whole point entirely too.
m.

― msp (mspa), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

What was the short story with kids and snot?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

snot boys 2000?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

RAY BRADBURY SUCKS........U ARE ALL ILE SWINE...GET OFF MY BOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

YOU ARE
WRONG
SIR

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/GeorgeRayLaura.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

The Veldt

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 2 April 2006 06:24 (twenty years ago)

I got my dad a signed copy of 451 after my first trip to chicago, where he was at the sci bookstore(since closed). there were at least two people there in full Star Fleet regalia.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:34 (twenty years ago)

reading THE ILLUSTRATED MAN at age 12 = gateway to new worlds

re: Ray's creeping luddism (sic)luddite-ism? probably has something to do w/being almost 90 yrs old or something like that. anyway didn't Wm Gbsn write NEUROMANCER on a typewriter?

my wife just saw the off-broadway production of Farenheit 451 and really liked it.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 2 April 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

ddb be right.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

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