Farenheit 451 is a classic I will always remrmber. The movie with, I believe, Oscar Werner and Julie Christie, was also good. Hope this country doesn't loose sight of the message Ray B. was sending.
I grew up on SciFi. Asimov and Bradbury were the best. Asimov, who was afraid of flying, wrote epic tales of distant planets and the far future. Bradbury was the better storyteller. Bradbury's stories pulled you in and made you part of the plot. Even as the world changed so much after 1980, with PCs, cell phones and GPS, Bradbury's stories still resonated. His pre 80 stories and even his new stuff worked for the new generations.
He was still writing almost to the end. I understand that some recent short stories of his are yet to be published. In the 90s he admitted that in some of his most "political" stories, he did not have any political motivations, but was simply storytelling. Still, stories like F451 did carry a political message for many of us.
Considering he wrote Farenheit 451 in 1952 and the story is almost dead on today's society, literacy at a al time lows in the modern era and all information chosen by talking heads on wall size TV's!! I would say he was brilliant. "F-451", "A Brave New World", "1984", and "Atlas Shrugged" should be required reading in High School or College. They are showing us the state of our society and is lying ass government. Regulations and taxes are bad, personal freedom and responsability are good and are the only way for all to prosper.
"Considering he wrote Farenheit 451 in 1952 and the story is almost dead on today's society, literacy at a al time lows in the modern era and all information chosen by talking heads on wall size TV's!! I would say he was brilliant."
Yes - he was and amazingly forward thinking.
Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how <b>television destroys interest in reading literature</b>, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context.
Especially considering the novel was written in 1952, and the percentage of homes with television sets was only 40 to 50 percent, his prediction of the future is no less than brilliant.
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He was still writing almost to the end. I understand that some recent short stories of his are yet to be published. In the 90s he admitted that in some of his most "political" stories, he did not have any political motivations, but was simply storytelling. Still, stories like F451 did carry a political message for many of us.
"Considering he wrote Farenheit 451 in 1952 and the story is almost dead on today's society, literacy at a al time lows in the modern era and all information chosen by talking heads on wall size TV's!! I would say he was brilliant."
Yes - he was and amazingly forward thinking.
Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how <b>television destroys interest in reading literature</b>, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context.
Especially considering the novel was written in 1952, and the percentage of homes with television sets was only 40 to 50 percent, his prediction of the future is no less than brilliant.