Wrong Element
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You can burn kindling, but you can't burn a Kindle.
He was one of the greats.
He was one of the greats.
Ray Bradbury has died
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SalviaDivinorum
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I thought that was a false rumor?
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SalviaDivinorum
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So he's gone to be with the Martians. Life well played.
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“When I was born in 1920,” he told the New York Times Magazine in 2000, “the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist.
TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.”
- Ray Bradbury
He was my first Lit lurve. *sigh* He earned his rest and reward.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/author-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.”
- Ray Bradbury
He was my first Lit lurve. *sigh* He earned his rest and reward.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/author-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
SalviaDivinorum
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He rightly fought against genre labeling.
Johnny_Ray_Wilson
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Ray Bradbury will be sorely missed.
The first real sci-fi book I read was "Fahrenheit 451". Had I never read it, I doubt I would love reading books as much as I do today. Everything he wrote was fantastic.
The first real sci-fi book I read was "Fahrenheit 451". Had I never read it, I doubt I would love reading books as much as I do today. Everything he wrote was fantastic.
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Truth. Bradbury could completely take me out of the world for the duration of one of his stories, and send me back with a little something extra when it was done.
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That is all true guys. I read all his stories until I was about 25 yrs old. Now I want to revisit them and read anything new he has written the past 20 years.
"Something Wicked Comes this Way" was the first book I read, cover to cover, without sitting it down or putting it away to take a break. I only stopped reading it long enough to eat and nap that weekend.
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His short stories and novellas helped me pass Senior English in high school. He took me to the places of where he wrote, a total genius as a writer.
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Mine too... it was the first book I finished and actually read on my own in HS
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6th grade...it was my very first book report. I chose "The Illustrated Man" as I had in interest in tattoo's/tattooing and didn't want to be a total nerd. I was hesitant about reading a "lame ass book for a stupid report" but after the first page I didn't quit turning them until the wee hours of the morning.
It got me into reading, specifically sci-fi stories. Like crack the habbit quickly encompassed other writers such as Asimov, Sagan, Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card and others. Science and sci fi became the construct of my reality...I'm now a Biologist/Chemist and I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that it all started with a little paperback novel in the 6th grade that forever changed my life.
Rest in peace good sir....you will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.
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Could not have said it better-- one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. RIP.
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We are the Martians.
RIP, Ray. I know you won't mind if we stand on your shoulders now and then.
Chronicler on Chronic,
Ellie
RIP, Ray. I know you won't mind if we stand on your shoulders now and then.
Chronicler on Chronic,
Ellie
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Fuck.
He'll be sorely missed, but he had an excellent run.
He'll be sorely missed, but he had an excellent run.
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This.
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Orson Scott Card wrote one fantastic book, the rest reads like bad fan fic.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love and love what you write. The keyword is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. Bradbury
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I fudged the title too. We were both wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(novel)Damn, it has been so long since I read that book (9th grade). At the time, it just seemed so hard to read and it took me an entire weekend. I read it as 'punishment' for the best teacher I ever had in HS. She was surprised I actually read it. I was surprised I actually liked it.
That book was primarily the reason my grammar and literature skills improved greatly during my younger years.
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impetuous
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Mine too. It was required reading in my 7th grade English class. I became a big Ray Bradbury fan after reading that book.
RIP
