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Originally Posted by teh603
Dunno. I've read a good chunk of 451 and an entire graphic novel rendition. Can't say I like it. Too much fuel for the toxi-capitalist "government is evil" movement. Course the other one about the schoolteacher getting replaced- which was run in Boys Life back in the early Clinton era- wasn't any better.
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.
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I really loved 451, but don't recall it as being particularly anti-government. It's been awhile, so I may be misremembering that, but I recall the main themes being censorship of books (at the demand of the people, not originally by force of government) and the effect of video technology and the demand for newness affects people.
I also really like Orwell, and never read Animal Farm or 1984 as particularly anti-capitalist; Animal Farm seemed more anti-soviet style communism and 1984 was more anti-facism and anti-totalitarian government.
Again, 451 is one of my favourite books, but it's been awhile since I read it.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I always chuckled over the recent irony of Bradbury's vocal opposition to ebooks; the writer of Fahrenheit 451, whose heroes dealt with the preservation of books into history by memorizing them, criticizing the digital storage and preservation of texts; but I was always sure it was the romantic in him talking, the side that just loved those bound reams of paper from his lifetime, and not a side that had become blind to the realities of the day.
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I also recall an interview with Bradbury where he complained at length about the internet and how it distracts people and makes them stupider, while at the same time as he was interviewed he was watching Fox News on two big-screen TVs. Not that those particularly detract from such a great author.