I really liked 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

>>2698247
Seconding the Martian Chronicles

mods sticky this thread.

ray Bradbury was the icon of dystopian proportions

Good night sweet prince. ;_;

How does he compare to lovecraft?
Might put on my to-read list

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the martian chronicles were awesome

I thought Something Wicked This Way Comes was quite good, myself.

He was kind of an asshole. He hated the Internet and got pissed off when people got something different out of his books than he did.

still RIP in Peace I guess. 451 was a decent high school read.

the illustrated man and something wicked this way comes were good

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Another for Martian Chronicles, also The Illustrated Man.
Let's get some of his more unknown but good stories in here, I want to read some more of him.

Dandelion Wine is the only thing to make me cry like a bitch. Bradbury was the master of heart-wrenching nostalgia and loss.

RIP

One of my favourite writter...

>>2698305
agreed

I hated both Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Reading Fahrenheit 451 was like listening to a senile old man babbling about how people were coming to take his books away and them damn kids nowadays, and The Martian Chronicles read like scripts for Mars-focused Twilight Zone episodes. I don't get it.

http://www.scaryforkids.com/kaleidoscope-by-ray-bradbury/

That's actually my favorite short story of all time.

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"To hell with you and to hell with the internet!" - Ray Bradbury

I read Fahrenheit 451 a few weeks ago. It's definitely worth it. I even spent some time looking him up.

Fuck.

RIP in peace

Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favourite books and I'm a million years overdue for reading more of his stuff.

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>>2698406
Second. I regret not reading more of his stuff. Need to get onto that now.... ;_;

I'm so glad I read at least Fahrenheit before this. I hate reading something just because someone died and going "GEE MAYBE I SHOULDVE READ MORE OF HIS STUFF"

I'm amazed at how prescient Fahrenheit 451 was. That novel was responsible for reigniting my love of reading.

Favorite Bradbury stories list time?

Mine are (in no order):
"The Veldt"
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
"A Sound of Thunder"
"Kaleidoscope"

Wow /lit/ has a mod? Or did someone just pop on the IRC?

/lit/mod HAS SHOWN ITSELF

JUST AS THE ELDERS PREDICTED

A Sound of Thunder made me shit my pants back when i was a kid, and made me embrace the love which i dare not speak the name of (alternate history).

also he was good for the lulz when he would start ranting about the nook, and how computers have ruined literature.

i will miss you Ray, you were the Abe Simpson of the literary world.

I SAW THAT, MOD! YOU MADE A MISTAKE!

don't ban me please

>>2698435

seconding "the veldt"

He will be missed, but he did leave behind some good reading for future generations.

He wrote good short stories. Illustrated Man and Dandelion Wine=good.

>>2698382
Oh shit nice I fucking love kaleidoscope. thanks

R.I.P sweet prince.

>>2698470

Illustrated Man was great. Loved the story about Venus.

>>2698446
This is a major event; tip of the hat to the moderator for recognizing the significance.

Ray Bradbury is one of the great writers of the 20th C., and we all owe him a debt of gratitude.

Cheers jowly old man - you moved the ball forward, and we appreciate it.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn't begun yet. July, well, July's really fine: there's no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June's best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September's a billion years away.

But you take October, now. School's been on a month and you're riding easier in the reins, jogging along. You got time to think of the garbage you'll dump on old man Prickett's porch, or the hair-ape costume you'll wear to the YMCA the last night of the month. And if it's around October twentieth and everything is smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bed-sheets around corners.

But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight.

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time to post this I guess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM

Oh no ;_;
Time to go reread some short stories.

>>2698511

please continue ...

Good night, sweet prince. I love Fahrenheit 451; it'll always be one of my favorite books because it was completely believable why books were banned.

It's so weird. I barely finished Fahrenheit 451 last night, and it was amazing. This morning I woke up thinking to myself, "Wow, I need to e-mail him to tell him that I loved his book."

So I searched his name in hopes of finding an e-mail address and the first thing I saw was

"Ray Bradbury died today."

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>>2698382
Too many space feels

The October Country is to date, my favorite short story collection. And of course, Martian Chronicles, Illustrated Man, 451, and Golden Apples of the Sun. You'll be missed, big guy

The Fog Horn is one of his best short stories. Jesus fuck, so many feels.

my favorite writer he was:(

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>>2698525
>please continue ...

I'm not typing out the entirety of "Something Wicked This Way Comes." Go pick it up at Barnes and Noble or, better yet, your local library.

Anonymous ## Mod
06/06/12(Wed)12:37
No.2698544

Anonymous ## Mod No.2698544 06/06/12(Wed)12:37 No.2698544

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

Ugh I feel weird Sleep well.

>>2698435
Agreed on "There Will Come Soft Rains" and "A Sound of Thunder."
I also love
"The Murderer"
"The April Witch"
"The Long Rain"
Almost all of The Martian Chronicles

>>2698544

why ;_;

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in my opinion he was a master! one of my top 3 writers of all time definitely.. i remember reading his stories growing and getting goosebumps from the emotions he conveys
i can go back and reread my favorite stories and still get goosebumps

its a shame i never got to meet him

Goodnight sweet prince

don't worry guys, only 50 more years until he enters the canon!

:(

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

May the gods bless you sweet prince...

>>2698544
we're...not alone.

>>2698544
God...damn.

I'm not worthy of the title "Writer."

Not yet.

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I remember reading The Illustrated Man from cover to cover over a couple nights when I was thirteen. It was my favorite collection of short stories for the longest time. Now all his stories make me feel nostalgic.

Anonymous ## Mod
06/06/12(Wed)12:46
No.2698577

Anonymous ## Mod No.2698577 06/06/12(Wed)12:46 No.2698577

Some time ago I read that Bradbury would let in any person that knocked on his door and would sit to chat with him. I always wanted to do that, but alas now I cannot. Time to re-read his work and take heed of his advice.

Is it bad that this is the saddest I've been in a very long tome?

>>2698579

but Bradbury wrote short stories

>>2698579
Why would it be bad?
Let the feels flow through you.

>>2698283
he's no lovecraft, but still okay

obviously not as twisted or interesting

He inspired me to become a writer. Good night, sweet prince. I'll always treasure Fahrenheit 451 (the first book of his I ever read).

>>2698577
Well said.

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>>2698587

Can't believe Stephen King died.

>>2698611
at least we have a mod who stickies at appropriate times at least.

at least

at least

>at least

I've been meaning to read Death Is a Lonely Business for a long time. Time to pick that up.

>>2698611
I heard you were dead. Why can't you stay dead?

>>2698611
>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>2698611
>that at least someone who at least

>>2698611
STFU.

Would you say such things at your mom's funeral?

Give it a rest for 24 hours, Nancy.

>>2698616
>>2698622
>>2698625
>>2698629
>>2698628
D&E autorage

Nice

>>2698642
He uses "styleless" to insult people posting on 4chan, what else can you expect?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK THIS GAY EARTH!!!!!!

>>2698265

lol ok

dumbass

>>2698552
>top 3 writers of all time
Talk of the rose-tinted glasses mate.

>>2698660
I can't stop laughing at this comment.

>>2698671
>Talk of the rose-tinted glasses mate.

How about this? He's definitely one of the best America's ever been blessed with.

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The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451. The man was a master ;_;

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>>2698671
>one of my top 3 writers of all time
>my top 3 writers of all time
>my

mfw /lit/ cant into opinions

>>2698731
>trying to start a subjectivity war in an RIP thread
Let's everyone calm down.

is weird, i never liked his style and i really dislike martian chronicles.
he usually sounds like and old man remembering the good old times and i am a much bigger fan of hard science than what he wrote.
still a big loss

>>2698548
My favorites were
A blade of grass
The smiling people
Bang! you're dead.
im going to my local library now to replace those awful twilight fanfictions with 451 and his short stories on the bestsellers shelf.
as a tribute to 451 where the only literature is sex magazines and sports statistics im going to stop that.

Thank you Mr. Bradbury for all your fine work.

>>2698572
Good, I guess, because that's how he apparently felt all the time.

>A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

;_;7

I can't believe he's gone. Fahrenheit 451 was what got me into him but after that I read Martian Chronicles and it absolutely blew me away. R.I.P.

Rest in Peace ;_;

you spoke to me

Its funny how I read nearly all of his work except Fahrenheit 451. I loved "The Illustrated Man" "The Martian Chronicles" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes". But most of all my favorite book of his and my favorite of all time is "Dandelion Wine".

Goodnight Sweet Prince.

Dandelion Wine was something I read at a pivotal point in my development. Parts of it still echo in my mind...so many beautiful stories.

RIP, sir. You'll be missed and the literary world is lessened without you.

fuck... FUCK!

I AM SO FUCKING SAD!

RIP old man... I loved him as you used your shorts with suspenders...

Fahrenheit 1700

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>Shit writer
>Shit book
>American

No sticky for Fuentes eh?

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Oh wow... I read the A Medicine for Melancholy a week ago ;_;

I actually just read Something Wicked, Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, the Illustrated Man, and the Golden Apples of the Sun like two weeks ago.
Damn shame, he was a great author.
I'd recommend him to any who haven't read his works.

Also, holy shit, captcha: dystopia (arabic)
But, still, dystopia. Neat.

I liked his short story where they go back in time to hunt Dinosaurs and shit

Never liked his books

Hope he burns in hell

RIP you wonderful bastard

RIP Mr. Bradbury ;_;

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>>2698382
>mfw

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is one of my favorite short stories ever.

R.I.P.

I grew up about a block away from the library across from L.A. High, where Bradbury went to school. It is the library mentioned in >>2698556.
Bradbury came to do a public lecture in the library. The librarians cleared out one of the wings and set up some folding chairs and a little podium with a microphone. The time came, and out of all of the seats set up, probably a dozen were filled. While he spoke about how important this library was to him and his development as a writer, I could see the sadness in his eyes. One of the great literary minds of our era, not even able to fill up half of a wing of a tiny public library. After he finished, I came up to him with my little 15 year old heart beating through my little 15 year old chest, and told him how Fahrenheit 451 made me want to write, how it made me want to read every book I could, how it inspired me to not become "an anonymous member of the ignorant mob," about how heavily used and damaged my copy of The Martian Chronicles was, about how I read more and more and more and couldn't stop.

He put his hand on my shoulder, and told me, "One day, I will die. My friends and family and fellow writers will die. It's up to your generation to keep books alive and well."

I don't even know how to follow that. I'm crying right now, so I'm going to get drunk and read that piece by him that was in the last New Yorker.

RIP Ray.

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>>2698966

Those are some deep feels, man. Shit.

>>2698966
>"One day, I will die. My friends and family and fellow writers will die. It's up to your generation to keep books alive and well."

When all the good writers die, I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Our generation is already ignorant enough to books. I fear what will happen within the next few years.

>>2698975
Don't be ridiculous. There's more writers now than there ever was.

>>2698382
Man, that's my greatest fear. being in a situation where you know you are going to die but have an eternity to think about, with infinite space all around to remind you of your insignificance.

brb going to the library

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly

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>>2698966 Just kidding, that sent a shiver up my spine.

Wait, what the fuck? How did I not hear about this?
Shit

Apparently I met Ray Bradbury at UC Irvine when I was young, but I don't remember it the least bit for some reason. It's a shame because through high school Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes were some of my favourite scifi stories.
He will be missed

Holy shit.

I saw this thread and literally said "What?!" out loud.

You will be missed.

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Fuck this shit!

Why do people make such a big deal when someone dies? This is something that concerns his family and close friends.

When will we stop making such a mockery the death of someone? I bet his books are gonna be well read this summer.

I wont "miss him" simply cause i can keep reading his books. I would miss him if he were my dad of husband.

>>2699086
*or

>>2699087
>saging

>>2699096
problem?

>>2699086
It might seem inconceivable to you, but most people are genuinely saddened by the death of an author they really liked.
I know I'll cry when Pynchon dies.

>>2699101

>saging a stickied thread

shig

>>2699113
>being bothered by irrelevant things

how long have u been sheltered?

really funny watching this argument play out one post at a time tbqh

>>2699117
Do you even know what sage is for?
1/10

>>2698378
Exactly.
Bradbury is NOT a science fiction writer.
He's writes moralizing fantasy with "science fiction" MacGuffins where the science (fiction) doesn't matter at all.
He's "science fiction" insofar as literary critics who don't get or care about science fiction say he is.

This inferior 1984-knockoff gets a sticky? Tut tut.

It'd be real nice if y'know, you actually deleted our habitual troll threads rather than this shit. The /lit/ sticky is also next to useless and no longer reflects the board at all

>>2699147
excuse me sir, i demand compensation, just cut myself on your post b/c its so edgy

>>2699152
Speaking of edgy, at least he banned 'ol herp/derp. But lets get serious here, is there anything more tired and cliche than dystopian novels where the protagonist falls in love at risk to himself?

>See: every single fucking well-known authoritarian dystopia

I remember we read one of his short stories in my 8th grade English class from the Illustrated man. Something about a holographic room with lions in it.

It's a shame because thinking back on it, that teacher did her best to give us some of the best short stories she could find and I'm pretty sure most of it went over our heads because we were stupid middle schoolers who didn't care about reading. It's only till now that I can truly appreciate everything she tried to do for us.

Now I'm feeling feels for both Bradbury and that teacher...

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>>2699112
>that day comes closer every 24 hours

God damn it. I sent him fan mail just a few weeks ago asking for an autograph.

I loved "All Summer in a Day" as a kid. ;-;

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>>2698382
dat ending

>>2699170
The worst part is, we won't even know for months.

>>2699182
>The worst part is, we won't even know for months.
What if he's already dead?

RIPS in pease Isaac Asimov

How long you think until we get a crazy fucked up cyberpunk CG extraordinaire version of 451, now that he's dead? A year? Two at the most?

Betcha they'll put Bay as director.

>>2699177
Gets me every time.

Anyone else not like Bradbury's work at all or think literary critics are full retard for saying how great he is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzD0YtbViCs

;_;

>>2699192

I agree.

Er, wait, scratch that. Actually I meant the other thing. Where I disagree and call you a cunt.

>>2699195
bawwww someone called out your favorite writer
u mad

>>2699198

Who's mad? I simply observed that you're a cunt.

I wonder if the American opinion/perspective on China's internet firewalls would be any different, had F451 never been published.

>>2699198
This is not a Bradbury thread. This is an RIP Bradbury thread. Just leave people who enjoy his work to have this one thread. I don't particularly like his stuff either.

>>2699201
>>2699206
Taking RIP seriously ITT?
lololol R U SRS!?

>>2699213
Don't be a prick mate.

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>>2699204
the American perspective on internet censorship in general doesn't seem affected by F451

the lack of any reference to anti-censorship in Obama's statement is noticeable

>>2699222
Well, yes, because the political establishment is committed to censorship. Not in a thoroughgoing or explicit way, and certainly not on the level of censoring all books etc, but a part of the national security paradigm accepted by everyone in the establishment is a certain amount of censorship.

>>2699218
Don't be a mate, prick.

>>2699166
It was There Will Come Soft Rains, his most well known short story.

Oh my god, that was one of the most feeling inducing stories ever.

Supposedly he was one of those authentic geniuses.

I read The Martian Chronicles when I was around 8, and it was the first book I genuinely enjoyed. I credit that book with making me like to read and write. It's still my favorite book of all time.

I'm so fucking sad right now, holy shit.

>>2698572
started reading this today when i found out that he died

>>2699206
>This is not a Bradbury thread.
>This is an RIP Bradbury thread.
same thing. moot distinction is moot

Fricken tragedy that he's dead. I remember spending two days listening to david bowie and reading the martian chronicles. Probably one of my favorite memories.

Not sure if anyone's posted this guy yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM

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451 was one of my favorite books from the 9th Grade.

RIP

"There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel."

Damn right.

>>2699316
>2012
>being this luddite

All of the stuff about Uncle Einstein, and the Halloween stuff in general. From The Dust Returned is honestly my favorite. His relationship with Charles Addams and The Addams Family is really interesting to read about (his family in Dust and many of the short stories are a much more somber take on The Addams Family)

>>2699349

*Einar

>>2699347
>2012
> letting yourself be consumed by technology no matter the cost

ok you fuckhead, enjoy your slow death

>>2699374
> Arguing against technology on 4chan

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>>2699377
> All technology is exactly the same

lazy counterpoint general

>>2699382
As far as I can tell, you're rejecting e-books on the basis of the fact that they're technology, which is odd, especially since there are much better reasons to hate e-books.

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>>2698966

"The world was full of burning of all types and sizes. Now the guild of the asbestos weaver must open up shop very soon" (Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, pg 141).

Perhaps we should form an orginization dedicated to getting people to read books under this name.

Okay question: Bradbury dedicates The Illustrated Man to "FATHER, MOTHER, and SKIP, with love."

Who was Skip?

>>2699390
I'm rejecting them because they cheapen books by making them some pointless mb's in your fancy flat computer. It's monetizing a timeless human activity into the same thing as downloading an album, or posting to facebook.

Books should be something to be held, treasured, and touched. Something to turn to to get away from the electronic web we're all inside of daily.

I love Fahrenhiet 451, but his short stories are great as well. Golden Apples of the Sun is a great collection of his stuff.

>>2699407
I have a book that contains all of his short stories. I feel like if I had only one book to keep with me the rest of my life that would be it.

>>2699395
That's just your point of view though. You could just as easily say that identifying physical objects with the stories and ideas and words printed on them cheapens them, that the true value of the book simply IS the data, and that data is not any less valuable converted from ink to electrons.

Not saying that's what I believe, but both sides are equally valid.

I was just reading a short by him yesterday too.
Weird.

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So Bradbury's been exiled to Mars with Poe and Shakespeare?

Actually I really like his short There Will Come Soft Rains. Quick read and pretty interesting.

>>2699425
I loved that short story.

>the martian chronicles
so many feels

also http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm

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Have some awesome soviet adaption of "There will come soft rains"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcCKXVkGCGM

Requiescat in pace you cantankerous old fart

cry more nigga i glad he dead
fuck a ray brad burreh
sloppy ass nigga
git ball gamed

What do English people pronounce the word "idea" as "idurr"? It sounds fucking retarded.

R.I.P. good night sweet prince. His short stories were packed with 2deep4feelyness.

>>2699494
I hated every word in those sentences.

Keep that in mind.

It's more than "That book about book burning". It's a commentary about society that sometimes I found strikingly profound.

I loved his sci-fi work simply because it wasn't full of Space Magic crap.

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I think he was an excellent author. And that he was also fucking insane. Or, at the very least, senile the last ten years of his life.

I met Mr. Bradbury three times in the past decade. The first time, he told me a story about how his memory was impeccable, and that he still remembered vividly his circumcision and the taste of his mother's breast milk.

The second time, he lectured me about how ridiculous it is that women hold so many positions of power, and that women should not be allowed to teach, and that we ought to withdraw all funding from our high schools and poor it into our preschools because by God he learned to read at the age of three.

The third time he talked about how he wanted to be buried on Mars.

He was fucking crazy.

Martian Chronicles inspired me to go back to writing.

Thank you Ray.

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451 was preachy and hamfisted, but The Martian Chronicles and There Will Come Soft Rains were great.

He's experiencing Fahrenheit 451 for himself.

"Yes, poor man, he's gone," said the mayor. "And he'll go on, planet after planet, seeking and seeking, and always and always he will be an hour late, or a half hour late, or ten minutes late, or a minute late. And finally he will miss out by only a few seconds. And when he has visited three hundred worlds and is seventy or eighty years old he will miss out by only a fraction of a second, and then a smaller fraction of a second. And he will go on and on, thinking to find that very thing which he left behind here, on this planet, in this city--"

-The Man

One of the most profound things ever written. Chasing God instead of LOOKING for him.

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury
Very good interview/article about the late and early Ray Bradbury.

I think my favorite Bradbury work was "The Pedestrian". I really loved that short story. He was a good author. It's sad to see him go.

>>2699316
>"There is no future for books, because they are not oral stories. Books smell like papyrus and burnt charcoal."
>Damn right.
huge retard alert!

He's really nothing more than a trailblazer, his works are rather shitty. Not William Gibson shitty, but pretty close. I'd read at least 3.

>ctrl+F "Dandelion Wine"
>only 4 responses

bro, do u even read?

>>2699414
>but both sides are equally valid.
false equivalence
No, you're right. The other dude is just a huge faggot.

Ray Bradbury in the very first sci-fi themed New Yorker (coincidentally, this week's edition):
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_bradbury

Junot Diaz on Ray Bradbury:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/loving-ray-bradbury.html

>>2699532
You mistake profundity with irritating nostalgia and straw characters.

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>mfw I was to meet him last year but it never came to fruition

I just finished reading Something Wicked This Way Comes, my first Bradbury, this morning, and now I learn he died yesterday... Creepy.

I loved the book. I'll definitely look into reading more of his writings.

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Ray Bradbury: over-rated short story writer. Made a few crappy plays and screenplays. Lots of better authors out there.

Oh noes..we will miss his stories he wrote 20 years ago

>MFW: not exactly Tolkein, was he?

>>2699788

..was it because maybe he was barely alive?

>author has 1 small book to his name which was made into a budget movie with awful actors

>writes thousands of short stories which are silly and childish

>hasn't written anything for over 10 years

ok then

NEVER LIKED HIM NEVER WILL. HIS STORIES WERE SHIT.

Started and finished reading Fahrenheit 451. Why did he have to die the next day ;_;

There Will Come Soft Rains is one of my favorites of his.

I want to get back into books and I figure I'll start with Bradbury again.

I loved Fahrenheit 451. It got me into reading when I was younger. University and life made me stop.

What's a good Bradbury piece that will reignite my love for books? I've only read Fahrenheit 451 by him.

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> A somewhat good Sci-fi, murican, neck-beard writer dies
>Mod is Neck-beard
>I GOTTA STICKY THIS SHIT
>Nobody gives a shit about Fuentes
OH BOY I SURE LOVE THE MODERATION IN HERE.

>>2699947
Kaleidoscope
http://www.scaryforkids.com/kaleidoscope-by-ray-bradbury/

God dammit, this has really ruined my day.

The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes...these were all great books.

I still have his big-ass collection of fiction that came out in, oh, 2006? I love it.

God damn, son. I'm gonna go re-read Zen in the Art of Writing and be amused.

Goodnight, sweet prince. Thank you for all the wonderful stories.

>>2699952

I second this. Robert Ludlum dying at the age of 41 was a loss, yes.

Get fucked

Mishima at 45 was a loss
That French guy who died in WW I was a loss
Lautreamont dying in his 20`s or whatever was a loss

Bradbury was an average at best sci-fi author

>12-year old kid meets carnival showman called Mr Electrico
>showman tells kid he is the reincarnation of his friend who died in WWI
>tells him to live forever
>kid goes home, starts to write
Why can't all writers have cool origin stories?

>>2699974

Douglas Adams was a far greater sci-fi author than Ray Bradbury ever was and his passing away at the age of 40 was a great loss. Not this Bradbury; short story, coffee-break, read on the toilet author, fellow.

/thread

>>2699986
Well, that's just your opinion, man.

>>2699984

>12-year old kid meets carnival showman

so cliche'd...and 1950s. Totally irrelevant today. May as well read a story about a woman getting on her lawn-mower to buy some milk from the haberdashery. Then she comes home and switches on the wireless while her husband smokes a pipe and washes his armpits in the communal sink using a bar of whale-soap.

>>2699974
>>2699986
>author that lots of people like dies
>anons go online and tell people that it's no loss because you think other authors were better
Jesus Christ. When you guys die it'll probably be a net gain.

>>2700002
Yeah fuck those guys.
Jules Verne was the real loss.

>>2699998
Um, that's why it's fun. And what are you even on about with this relevance? Do you refuse to read books that don't feature the internets or something?

Added twist: Mr Electrico was a time-travelling Tom Waits.

>>2700009
Yo, imma let you finish, but DFW was the greatest loss of all time.

>>2700002

no you cunt it is not about that, it is about the BULLSHIT. Bradbury has not written anything in YEARS. How can that be considered a "loss". Anything you read this year by Ray Bradbury was written at least 6 years ago, probably more since he wrote very very little since about 20 years ago.

How the fuck can that be considered a "loss" is about me. It was like he was not here anymore. Do you get it now. I hate bullshit and this REEKS OF IT.

>>2699986
Okay, I love Douglas Adams. He was clever, he was witty, he was entertaining, but he was NOT a good writer. At all. His stories went almost literally nowhere, and the pacing and characterization was hectic and aimless. And then there's shit just literally happening for no reason (he just made a character disappear for no real reason, and then has the nerve to die before explaining what happened.)

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>>2700017
>Ugly American plebeian
>A loss.

>>2700018
>How the fuck can that be considered a "loss" is about me
>is about me
>about me
>me
>me me me me me, listen to me, I have opinions
Fredian slip of the year, all years.

>>2700011

Ok then. But then don't try to pass off as a "fantasy" or "sci-fi author" if you are going to write about things which are relevant your era. Bradbury never pushed the boat out more than so far because he had little imagination. Even F451 was based on censorship issues of the time. As a futuristic novel did it hold up well? Not at all because he didn't have the nouse to figure out technology would supersede books and in fact the future has proven him wrong because information became more readily available, thus he was writing about a time PASSED. That's hardly visionary, is it? IN fact I would call it "cheap sci-fi".

I will now do as he did and write a book on the future and completely base it on things which have come and gone before in history. FFS what complete and utter SHIT. Admit it!!!

Wow /lit/ actually have mods to sticky, yet they take ages long to get rid of "she who must not be named" threads even though its against the rules.

>>2700025
okay, i admit it.

>>2700023

or...it's fucking late, I'm tired and you're not worth proof-reading?
Anyway, everything is about "me" on here. These are out opinions. I suppose you represent the Book Writer's Guild of America? Thought not...

>>2700023
>>2700023
>>2700023
>>2700023
>>2700023
AMEN

>>2700025
Why does writing about relevant topics mean he's not a fantasy author? Or are you suggesting that Tolkeinian high fantasy is the only kind of fantasy there is?

I want to say something clever, but I can't. I really don't know what to say. I'm just simmering here with a few bottles of beer and my copy of 451- I had just picked it up off my shelf the other day, thinking I ought to read it again some time.

Rest in peace, Ray.

>>2700040

Ok, so I'll write about taking a shit and eating toast. Is that "fantasy"? Why do Americans want to make something which isn't into something which it is just because they say so? i.e. "pizza is a vegetable". Errrm. No it isn't.

>>2700051
>you are what you eat
>Americans eat pizza
>Americans are all vegetables
You do the math.

POURING ONE OUT FOR MY NIGGA RAY

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>>2700056

I think you may be onto something there...

>>2700087

>dat filename

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R.I.P.

Illustrated Man is my favorite collection of short stories ever.

RIP, good man.

So if this some sort of american thing? Honoring authors who write american knock-offs of well-known european work?

>>2698861

This

>>2700163

Yeah. Well when you live in a country which has no history to speak of and took their language, culture and religion from Europe..what do you expect?

All told, Americans are just colonial Europeans...the real "Americans" are the native Indians who were driven from their land an generally killed en mass (i.e. genocide).

>>2700051
Oh, sorry, my apologies. I'm somewhat new here, and not yet accustomed to the subtlety of trolling.

>>2699190
they already made equilibrium

;_;

>>2700025
Bradbury is a sci-fi writer in the same way mud is chocolate. Not.
Just superficial tards (english teachers, joe public, people in this thread, etc) brainwashed to agree it is and actually think it's good.

Harold Bloom thinks Bradbury is a okay.

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OBLIGATORY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM

I actually remember when this board was good. For like a day after moot created it.

True story: about three days ago, I checked if some of the sci fi writers I read were still alive: ray bradbury was still kicking; I also looked up Lem (dead for 7 years), Ellison (still alive, 78 years old), Pohl (still alive, 92 years old), and Bloch (still alive, 77 yo).

>>2700411

>Ellison

Pleb.

>>2700401
Was just about to post it.

incredibly worth it, the man was a genius

>>2700415
Why? Harlan Ellison is a great sci-fi writer; if anything is pleb on that list, it is Bloch, since he wrote Psycho.
I also lied on there, Robert Bloch is sadly dead.