RIP Ray Bradbury - Page 3

tubemonkey · 06-06-2012, 01:50 PM

Bradbury on libraries:

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Bradbury told the New York Times in 2009: "Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."

kennyc · 06-06-2012, 01:53 PM

And he said he "graduated from the Library when he was 28."

piper28 · 06-06-2012, 02:12 PM

Hmm, many years ago when I was at school he came and spoke to us. It's long enough ago that I'm honestly not sure exactly what grade I was in at the time, although I've got to think it was most likely high school. I was kinda lucky in my high school, we had a chance to get exposed to some of the greats in their fields from time to time.

BeccaPrice · 06-06-2012, 02:29 PM

I loved Bradbury's writing, but all his stories seemed to be either meloncholy at best or downright depressing. I have enough trouble with depression as it is.

spindlegirl · 06-06-2012, 03:21 PM

The only thing of his which I have read was "I Sing the Body Electric!" I loved it! It was in a Houghton-Mifflin anthology of short fiction, but I have not yet read anything else.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 06-06-2012, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by steven522

I would like to see The Martian Chronicles done as an actual TV series instead of just a mini. They could do each short story as an episode and cover the entire book in a season (or two).

Give an hour to each story, and that could be awesome.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 06-06-2012, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by teh603

I kinda wish I could've asked him why he and Orwell and Rand were so strongly anti-government. I'd like to do something entirely different to Rand.

Products of their times. A couple of world wars, a depression and a cold war will do that to you.

kennyc · 06-06-2012, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by piper28

Hmm, many years ago when I was at school he came and spoke to us. It's long enough ago that I'm honestly not sure exactly what grade I was in at the time, although I've got to think it was most likely high school. I was kinda lucky in my high school, we had a chance to get exposed to some of the greats in their fields from time to time.

Wow, that is cool!

tubemonkey · 06-06-2012, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by spindlegirl

The only thing of his which I have read was "I Sing the Body Electric!" I loved it! It was in a Houghton-Mifflin anthology of short fiction, but I have not yet read anything else.

That story was the 100th episode of the Twilight Zone. It aired in May 1962 (season 3, episode 35). It's available on Netflix and YouTube. I just got through watching it a couple of hours ago. A very heart warming family story.

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"I Sing the Body Electric" is the 100th episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It was poorly received by viewers, and is frequently mentioned as the poorest Twilight Zone episode broadcast. The script was written by Ray Bradbury, and based on his short story of the same name, itself named after a Walt Whitman poem. Although Bradbury contributed several scripts to The Twilight Zone, this was the only one produced. Later, in 1982, the hour-long NBC television movie The Electric Grandmother was also based on the short story.

spindlegirl · 06-06-2012, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

That story was the 100th episode of the Twilight Zone. It aired in May 1962 (season 3, episode 35). It's available on Netflix and YouTube. I just got through watching it a couple of hours ago. A very heart warming family story.

I'll have to look for it and watch it. I loved the written story, hopefully the Twilight Zone episode will be just as good. I'm not very well versed in that series so that may just get me into it.

kennyc · 06-06-2012, 05:21 PM

Be sure and check out "Time Enough at Last" <snicker> <snicker> <snicker>

Hamlet53 · 06-06-2012, 05:30 PM

My favorite was The Illustrated Man collection. A lot of those stories were brilliant, and tying them together with the "Illustrated Man" was masterful.

I also never saw Bradbury as anti-capitalist, just anti-authoritarian. That can come from socialist dictatorship or plutocracy. That and he was very much against censorship.

kyteflyer · 06-06-2012, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BenG

One of the greats. I love his short stories even more than the novels.

Likewise. I'm in the midst of Volume 1 as I type. A brilliant man. His writing will live on.

carpetmojo · 06-06-2012, 05:49 PM

[QUOTE=PeterT;2105368]The author of the first Science Fiction book I read, Fahrenheit 451.............QUOTE]

Me too, smuggling in a dog-eared copy into class to be passed around during an Eng Lit class with a new Eng teacher - of course we were rumbled, and sat back to watch the fun.......
To find we had a teacher who not only liked and read SF, but who opened our eyes (well, some of us) to the breadth of the field, and the quality there was in the genre.
First esay ? A critical appraisal of "451" !
And we were always encouraged to hand in essays with an SF base if we wished - anything we liked, as long as we used decent grammar, and showed imagination.

I shall never forget Mr. Lester for making me love literature, and Ray Bradbury for writing a fantastic story.

xg4bx · 06-06-2012, 07:51 PM

RIP mr. bradbury.

it didn't take the onion long to release a satirical headline about it-

"Following Ray Bradbury's Death, Thousands Of People Buy Kindle Version Of Book About Demise Of Paper Books"

06-06-2012, 05:21 PM	#41
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,872 Karma: 118716293 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Be sure and check out "Time Enough at Last" <snicker> <snicker> <snicker> Last edited by kennyc; 06-06-2012 at 05:23 PM.

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BeccaPrice Wizard Posts: 2,145 Karma: 11174187 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 350, K3-3G, K4SO, KPW	I loved Bradbury's writing, but all his stories seemed to be either meloncholy at best or downright depressing. I have enough trouble with depression as it is.

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spindlegirl Wizard Posts: 1,594 Karma: 21245891 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra h20, Paperwhite 2017, Phone & Tablet w Moonreader	The only thing of his which I have read was "I Sing the Body Electric!" I loved it! It was in a Houghton-Mifflin anthology of short fiction, but I have not yet read anything else.

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carpetmojo Wizard Posts: 3,117 Karma: 9269999 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: UK Device: Sony- T3, PRS650, 350, T1/2/3, Paperwhite, Fire 8.9,Samsung Tab S 10.5	[QUOTE=PeterT;2105368]The author of the first Science Fiction book I read, Fahrenheit 451.............QUOTE] Me too, smuggling in a dog-eared copy into class to be passed around during an Eng Lit class with a new Eng teacher - of course we were rumbled, and sat back to watch the fun....... To find we had a teacher who not only liked and read SF, but who opened our eyes (well, some of us) to the breadth of the field, and the quality there was in the genre. First esay ? A critical appraisal of "451" ! And we were always encouraged to hand in essays with an SF base if we wished - anything we liked, as long as we used decent grammar, and showed imagination. I shall never forget Mr. Lester for making me love literature, and Ray Bradbury for writing a fantastic story.

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