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Among the worst books I've read so far.

Ray Bradbury's social critique is pretty similar to "old man yells at cloud"

>> No.14568641

>Among the worst books I've read so far.
Try out The Sun Also Rises and A Happy Death

>> No.14568652

>>14568641

Because they're also bad, or...?

>> No.14568694

>>14568652
That is explicitly implicit, yes.

>> No.14568699

>>14568694

I liked the Sun Also Rises. Haven't read the other one. What didn't you like about it?

>> No.14568711

>>14568699
Excessively bland.

>> No.14568717

>>14568711
Just as its title suggests, lmao. Sometimes, one really *can* judge a book by its cover.

>> No.14568910

>>14568631
I was really underwhelmed by it as well. In [current year] where digital storage is so cheap and widespread the idea of books or knowledge being able to be destroyed forever is just archaic and laughable.

I though his Martian Chronicles chronicles were bretty good though, even if they have some of the inherent silliness of early-mid 20th century scifi that dabbled with the idea there could be intelligent life on mars.

>> No.14568926

>>14568910
>I was really underwhelmed by it as well. In [current year] where digital storage is so cheap and widespread the idea of books or knowledge being able to be destroyed forever is just archaic and laughable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_obsolescence

>> No.14569023

>>14568631
I agree. It's written horribly, too. Even as a child reading it I was falling asleep.

>> No.14569421

>>14569023
How? His prose is almost manic.

>> No.14569436

>>14568910
My mom showed me the Martian Chronicles and I remember how awed I was. Whenever I read it, it brings out that same wonder.

>> No.14569478

>>14568631
Did you miss the giant Beatty rant when Guy is faking sick? Bradbury touches on several themes that would go on to define the rest of the 20th into 21st century
>Schools teach facts alone and not how to critically think. Knowledge is equated to memorization aka teach for the test.
>Technology shortens attention spans and the format changes. Books become summaries you buy in a collection to impress your friends. The summaries shrink to sentences. Digests digest digests etc.
>The whole motivating force for censorship was not authoritarian control but popular demand
>Popular demand was driven by minority pressure. Bradbury predicted that minority groups would be pissed off and the majority would bend to their demands. The baptists don't like us talking about that? Censor it. The Muslims don't like us talking about this? Censor that too.
Bradbury did not predict the invention of the internet, but he certainly understood human psychology better than any of the other dystopian writers of his era. His insistence that we would construct a nightmare out of laziness and appeasement with no authoritarian threat required was proven correct. Admittedly, a lot of the book is sub par, but that specific rant is why it deserves praise and reference.

>> No.14569491

>>14568631
yiddish policemans union was garbage, and i also hate the popular the stranger. fucking idiot cant just lie and say he loves god to not be killed. shit is stupid, you young nihilists need to get fucked. brought to you by emerson gang