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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2012, 09:00:08 AM » |
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He was still alive?!
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2012, 09:00:40 AM » |
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Well, dang. Bradbury was the best pure wordsmith I've ever read. I'll miss him deeply.  |
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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2012, 09:01:14 AM » |
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He was still alive?!
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2012, 09:13:25 AM » |
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He was still alive?!
That was my thought too. Well done him. 91 is a formidable age to attain! |
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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2012, 11:45:00 AM » |
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and he was fairly active right up to the end. Truly a futurist, made some spot on predictions in his writings. I loved his short stories a lot..
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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2012, 01:31:12 PM » |
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Well, dang. Bradbury was the best pure wordsmith I've ever read. I'll miss him deeply. "best pure wordsmith I've ever read."... Yes! Absolutely! This!... My favorite works by Bradbury... 1. Fahrenheit 451... I've lost track how many times I've read this book... It's how he painted such a familiar, almost comfortable portrait of a future society that was so truly horrifying... the fear coursed through me during Montags panicked flight from the robot "hound", down rain slicked allyway... crossing megafreeways in the dead of night when an out of control city youth prowl for a kill just for the fun of it... and not just his life spinning out of control, but society itself in self absorbed chaos... and then throw in atomic apocalypse... finally finding safety in the wilderness with outlawed book worms... damn, I need to read that now... 2. The Martian Chronicles... Amazing imagery throughout... favorite scene, children running through piles of leaves and branches, only it was actually the bones and dried husks of long dead martians... second favorite, the encounter between the Earthman and the Martian on the grasshopper like vehicle that was out of time... 3. the short story... A Sound of Thunder... Time travel and accidentally altered timelines/realities... Fun!... |
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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2012, 02:19:08 PM » |
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He was still alive?!
i was thinking the same thing, i thought for sure he'd passed years ago. Have to dust off my Fahrenheit 451 off. Sad to see him go, amazing writer There was a story i remember reading in grade school that was about a group of students that lived on mars perhaps or some other planet where it rained all but 1 day a year. I want to say it was him as it had his flavoring of writing but for the life of me i can't remember the name of the short story. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2012, 02:26:22 PM » |
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Well, dang. Bradbury was the best pure wordsmith I've ever read. I'll miss him deeply. "best pure wordsmith I've ever read."... Yes! Absolutely! This!... My favorite works by Bradbury... 1. Fahrenheit 451... I've lost track how many times I've read this book... It's how he painted such a familiar, almost comfortable portrait of a future society that was so truly horrifying... the fear coursed through me during Montags panicked flight from the robot "hound", down rain slicked allyway... crossing megafreeways in the dead of night when an out of control city youth prowl for a kill just for the fun of it... and not just his life spinning out of control, but society itself in self absorbed chaos... and then throw in atomic apocalypse... finally finding safety in the wilderness with outlawed book worms... damn, I need to read that now... 2. The Martian Chronicles... Amazing imagery throughout... favorite scene, children running through piles of leaves and branches, only it was actually the bones and dried husks of long dead martians... second favorite, the encounter between the Earthman and the Martian on the grasshopper like vehicle that was out of time... 3. the short story... A Sound of Thunder... Time travel and accidentally altered timelines/realities... Fun!... made a movie called the sound of thunder if you haven't seen it. Rich people pay money to go back in time to kill a Trex and someone accidentally steps on a butterfly or bug of some sort thus altering our reality/timeline forever. |
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« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2012, 02:38:17 PM » |
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Well, dang. Bradbury was the best pure wordsmith I've ever read. I'll miss him deeply. "best pure wordsmith I've ever read."... Yes! Absolutely! This!... My favorite works by Bradbury... 1. Fahrenheit 451... I've lost track how many times I've read this book... It's how he painted such a familiar, almost comfortable portrait of a future society that was so truly horrifying... the fear coursed through me during Montags panicked flight from the robot "hound", down rain slicked allyway... crossing megafreeways in the dead of night when an out of control city youth prowl for a kill just for the fun of it... and not just his life spinning out of control, but society itself in self absorbed chaos... and then throw in atomic apocalypse... finally finding safety in the wilderness with outlawed book worms... damn, I need to read that now... 2. The Martian Chronicles... Amazing imagery throughout... favorite scene, children running through piles of leaves and branches, only it was actually the bones and dried husks of long dead martians... second favorite, the encounter between the Earthman and the Martian on the grasshopper like vehicle that was out of time... 3. the short story... A Sound of Thunder... Time travel and accidentally altered timelines/realities... Fun!... made a movie called the sound of thunder if you haven't seen it. Rich people pay money to go back in time to kill a Trex and someone accidentally steps on a butterfly or bug of some sort thus altering our reality/timeline forever. A Sound of Thunder is one of my favorite short stories. I was very, very disappointed by the movie. |
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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2012, 02:49:08 PM » |
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Well, dang. Bradbury was the best pure wordsmith I've ever read. I'll miss him deeply. "best pure wordsmith I've ever read."... Yes! Absolutely! This!... My favorite works by Bradbury... 1. Fahrenheit 451... I've lost track how many times I've read this book... It's how he painted such a familiar, almost comfortable portrait of a future society that was so truly horrifying... the fear coursed through me during Montags panicked flight from the robot "hound", down rain slicked allyway... crossing megafreeways in the dead of night when an out of control city youth prowl for a kill just for the fun of it... and not just his life spinning out of control, but society itself in self absorbed chaos... and then throw in atomic apocalypse... finally finding safety in the wilderness with outlawed book worms... damn, I need to read that now... 2. The Martian Chronicles... Amazing imagery throughout... favorite scene, children running through piles of leaves and branches, only it was actually the bones and dried husks of long dead martians... second favorite, the encounter between the Earthman and the Martian on the grasshopper like vehicle that was out of time... 3. the short story... A Sound of Thunder... Time travel and accidentally altered timelines/realities... Fun!... made a movie called the sound of thunder if you haven't seen it. Rich people pay money to go back in time to kill a Trex and someone accidentally steps on a butterfly or bug of some sort thus altering our reality/timeline forever. A Sound of Thunder is one of my favorite short stories. I was very, very disappointed by the movie. Didn't say the movie was good  low budget and no name actors what'd did you expect |
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« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2012, 02:57:46 PM » |
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Well, dang. Bradbury was the best pure wordsmith I've ever read. I'll miss him deeply. "best pure wordsmith I've ever read."... Yes! Absolutely! This!... My favorite works by Bradbury... 1. Fahrenheit 451... I've lost track how many times I've read this book... It's how he painted such a familiar, almost comfortable portrait of a future society that was so truly horrifying... the fear coursed through me during Montags panicked flight from the robot "hound", down rain slicked allyway... crossing megafreeways in the dead of night when an out of control city youth prowl for a kill just for the fun of it... and not just his life spinning out of control, but society itself in self absorbed chaos... and then throw in atomic apocalypse... finally finding safety in the wilderness with outlawed book worms... damn, I need to read that now... 2. The Martian Chronicles... Amazing imagery throughout... favorite scene, children running through piles of leaves and branches, only it was actually the bones and dried husks of long dead martians... second favorite, the encounter between the Earthman and the Martian on the grasshopper like vehicle that was out of time... 3. the short story... A Sound of Thunder... Time travel and accidentally altered timelines/realities... Fun!... made a movie called the sound of thunder if you haven't seen it. Rich people pay money to go back in time to kill a Trex and someone accidentally steps on a butterfly or bug of some sort thus altering our reality/timeline forever. A Sound of Thunder is one of my favorite short stories. I was very, very disappointed by the movie. I've avoided it for that very reason... don't want to see something great turned into a piece of crap by mindless Hollywood movie exec. zombies... I think the thing that disturbed me the most in the altered timeline was the change in the color of the sky upon returning from the hunt... |
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« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2012, 06:01:53 PM » |
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At a lecture many years ago, I heard Ray Bradbury say, “your job is to collect metaphors”.
Apparently, nobody I was with there heard it. So I always assumed he was talking to me.
Eternal rest, Mr Bradbury.
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« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2012, 06:26:27 PM » |
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At a lecture many years ago, I heard Ray Bradbury say, “your job is to collect metaphors”.
Apparently, nobody I was with there heard it. So I always assumed he was talking to me.
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« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2012, 06:45:54 PM » |
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I've never read anything by him. I guess I need to turn in my SF Geek card.
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