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Orpheus
 Post subject: Ray Bradbury
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Quite possibly my favorite author, creator of some of the most original literature of all time. His writing style and the imagery and feelings that he was able to create by putting words on a page continue to amaze me. I'd reccomend these to start with:

The Martian Chronicles
The Illustrated Man
The Golden Apples of the Sun
Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451

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I really enjoyed Farenheit 451. I'll have to check out those others you mentioned.
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I really enjoyed reading Farenheit and martian chronicles. These are the only 2 books I read but I'd like to read more.
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3dsound wrote:
I really enjoyed reading Farenheit and martian chronicles. These are the only 2 books I read but I'd like to read more.


The Illustrated Man is a must, some of the finest short stories ever written.

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OrpheusDescending wrote:
The Illustrated Man is a must, some of the finest short stories ever written.


Indeed it is. Fahrenheight is a masterpiece all on its own, too.

I had an english major neighbor once who hated Bradbury. Methinks she didn't get it.

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OrpheusDescending wrote:
The Illustrated Man is a must, some of the finest short stories ever written.


Indeed it is. Fahrenheight is a masterpiece all on its own, too.

I had an english major neighbor once who hated Bradbury. Methinks she didn't get it.


She hated Bradbury????? How is that possible???

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3dsound wrote:
I really enjoyed reading Farenheit and martian chronicles. These are the only 2 books I read but I'd like to read more.


same here, i'll have to check out the illustrated man next chance i get.
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She hated Bradbury????? How is that possible???


Not real sure. I think she said something along the lines of "too dark... boring... nothing happens." She preferred Jane Erye (sp?) and all those Jane Austen books. Thus, I don't think she got it. :roll:

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OrpheusDescending wrote:
She hated Bradbury????? How is that possible???


Not real sure. I think she said something along the lines of "too dark... boring... nothing happens." She preferred Jane Erye (sp?) and all those Jane Austen books. Thus, I don't think she got it. :roll:


She must have missed it. Ray Bradbury is an author thats almost never boring and whose work always has a lot going on.

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Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books, and I've been meaning to read Martian Chronicles for years.

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Surely the fact that you like his work validates someone else not liking it. It works by definition.

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Surely the fact that you like his work validates someone else not liking it. It works by definition.


Fahrenheit 451 touches on this subject..that there will always be someone against or offended by a work.

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I believe it was addressed long before Bradbury. Plato had a few words to say about it too. But this is the beauty of art, that it both repels and attracts; the healthiest relationship to have.

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I believe it was addressed long before Bradbury. Plato had a few words to say about it too. But this is the beauty of art, that it both repels and attracts; the healthiest relationship to have.


Oh yeah. Bradbury was by no means the first to write about this, and certainly not the last either.

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I really enjoyed Farenheit 451. I'll have to check out those others you mentioned.


i just read it this year for the first time...love it..the mechanical hound ruled!
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i'm about to read the martian chronicles for the second time..i remember enjoying it back in high school, but i've forgotten a good bit about it

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Orpheus wrote:
aliveguy77 wrote:
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She hated Bradbury????? How is that possible???


Not real sure. I think she said something along the lines of "too dark... boring... nothing happens." She preferred Jane Erye (sp?) and all those Jane Austen books. Thus, I don't think she got it. :roll:


She must have missed it. Ray Bradbury is an author thats almost never boring and whose work always has a lot going on.


Yeah, that's a very obtuse decsription of Bradbury, I think she would have done herself a good service by looking in the mirror.

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