/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2698242]

Goodnight sweet prince.

On the real though I've never read any Bradbury. Is it worth it? Just 451?

[Benny Profane !!muO1YE/mn/J No.2698247]

I really liked 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

[Anonymous No.2698259]

>>2698247
Seconding the Martian Chronicles

[s No.2698265]

mods sticky this thread.

ray Bradbury was the icon of dystopian proportions

[Anonymous No.2698272]

Good night sweet prince. ;_;

[Anonymous No.2698283]

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

[Anonymous No.2698293]

the martian chronicles were awesome

[Anonymous No.2698299]

>mfw my singed first editions of the Tarzan series will be worth even more now.

[Anonymous No.2698305]

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

[Anonymous No.2698311]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698313]

the illustrated man and something wicked this way comes were good

[Anonymous No.2698318]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698336]

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

[Anonymous No.2698359]

RIP

One of my favourite writter...

[Anonymous No.2698367]

>>2698305
agreed

[Anonymous No.2698378]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698382]

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

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

[Anonymous No.2698391]

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

[Anonymous No.2698396]

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

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.2698406]

RIP in peace

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

[Anonymous No.2698412]

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

[Anonymous No.2698419]

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"

[Anonymous No.2698422]

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

[Anonymous No.2698435]

Favorite Bradbury stories list time?

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

[Anonymous No.2698441]

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

[Anonymous No.2698446]

/lit/mod HAS SHOWN ITSELF

JUST AS THE ELDERS PREDICTED

[Anonymous No.2698453]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698457]

I SAW THAT, MOD! YOU MADE A MISTAKE!

don't ban me please

[Anonymous No.2698458]

>>2698435

seconding "the veldt"

[Anonymous No.2698467]

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

[Anonymous No.2698470]

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

[Anonymous No.2698479]

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

[Anonymous No.2698482]

R.I.P sweet prince.

[Anonymous No.2698496]

>>2698470

Illustrated Man was great. Loved the story about Venus.

[Anonymous No.2698500]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2698511]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698519]

time to post this I guess

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

[Anonymous No.2698520]

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

[Anonymous No.2698525]

>>2698511

please continue ...

[Anonymous No.2698528]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698529]

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."

[Anonymous No.2698530]

>>2698382
Too many space feels

[Anonymous No.2698533]

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

[Anonymous No.2698531]

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

[Anonymous No.2698538]

my favorite writer he was:(

[Anonymous No.2698539]

>>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 No.2698544]

<i>“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.” </i>

[Anonymous No.2698547]

Ugh I feel weird Sleep well.

[Anonymous No.2698548]

>>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

[Anonymous No.2698550]

>>2698544

why ;_;

[Anonymous No.2698552]

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

[Anonymous No.2698553]

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

:(

[Anonymous No.2698556]

"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...

[Anonymous No.2698559]

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

[Anonymous No.2698563]

>>2698544
God...damn.

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

Not yet.

[Anonymous No.2698572]

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 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.

[Anonymous No.2698579]

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

[Anonymous No.2698587]

>>2698579

but Bradbury wrote short stories

[Anonymous No.2698588]

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

[Anonymous No.2698590]

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

obviously not as twisted or interesting

[Anonymous No.2698592]

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).

[Anonymous No.2698599]

>>2698577
Well said.

[Anonymous No.2698601]

>>2698587

[Anonymous No.2698605]

Can't believe Stephen King died.

[Deep&Edgy !UfFKGtFx2M!!/0aWHODYBc0 No.2698611]

>but alas now I cannot
Please stop posting you styleless faggot thanks, I'd like to maintain the fantasy that at least someone who at least knows how to write properly is in charge of the fucking literature board of all things

[Anonymous No.2698616]

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

at least

at least

>at least

[Anonymous No.2698619]

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

[Anonymous No.2698622]

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

[Anonymous No.2698625]

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

[Anonymous No.2698628]

>>2698611
>that at least someone who at least

[Anonymous No.2698629]

>>2698611
STFU.

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

Give it a rest for 24 hours, Nancy.

[Anonymous No.2698642]

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

Nice

[Anonymous No.2698649]

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

[SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ No.2698660]

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

[Anonymous No.2698661]

>>2698265

lol ok

dumbass

[Anonymous No.2698671]

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

[Anonymous No.2698689]

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

[Anonymous No.2698719]

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

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

[Anonymous No.2698725]

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

[Anonymous No.2698731]

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

mfw /lit/ cant into opinions

[Anonymous No.2698736]

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

[Anonymous No.2698740]

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

[Anonymous No.2698752]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2698754]

Thank you Mr. Bradbury for all your fine work.

[Anonymous No.2698757]

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

[Anonymous No.2698758]

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

[Anonymous No.2698759]

;_;7

[Anonymous No.2698760]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698763]

Rest in Peace ;_;

you spoke to me

[Anonymous No.2698772]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698802]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698835]

fuck... FUCK!

I AM SO FUCKING SAD!

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

[Anonymous No.2698860]

Fahrenheit 1700

[Adorno !VGOK6fUxDA No.2698861]

>Shit writer
>Shit book
>American

No sticky for Fuentes eh?

[Anonymous No.2698865]

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

[Standard Toaster !TOASTIsW76 No.2698884]

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.

[Anonymous No.2698900]

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

[Anonymous No.2698903]

Never liked his books

Hope he burns in hell

[Anonymous No.2698910]

RIP you wonderful bastard

[Anonymous No.2698927]

RIP Mr. Bradbury ;_;

[Anonymous No.2698938]

>>2698382
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2698959]

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

R.I.P.

[Anonymous No.2698966]

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.

[Benny Profane !!muO1YE/mn/J No.2698971]

>>2698966

Those are some deep feels, man. Shit.

[Anonymous No.2698975]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2698980]

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

[Anonymous No.2698983]

>>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

[Anonymous No.2699005]

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

[Anonymous No.2699014]

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

[Anonymous No.2699019]

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

[Anonymous No.2699045]

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

[Anonymous No.2699073]

Holy shit.

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

You will be missed.

[Anonymous No.2699080]

Fuck this shit!

[Anonymous No.2699086]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699087]

>>2699086
*or

[Anonymous No.2699096]

>>2699087
>saging

[Anonymous No.2699101]

>>2699096
problem?

[Anonymous No.2699112]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699113]

>>2699101

>saging a stickied thread

shig

[Anonymous No.2699122]

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

[Anonymous No.2699117]

>>2699113
>being bothered by irrelevant things

how long have u been sheltered?

[Anonymous No.2699125]

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

[Anonymous No.2699141]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699147]

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

[Anonymous No.2699152]

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

[Anonymous No.2699162]

>>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

[Anonymous No.2699166]

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...

[Anonymous No.2699170]

>>2699112
>that day comes closer every 24 hours

[Anonymous No.2699171]

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. ;-;

[Anonymous No.2699177]

>>2698382
dat ending

[Anonymous No.2699182]

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

[Anonymous No.2699184]

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

[Anonymous No.2699187]

RIPS in pease Isaac Asimov

[Anonymous No.2699190]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699191]

>>2699177
Gets me every time.

[Anonymous No.2699192]

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

[Anonymous No.2699193]

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

;_;

[Anonymous No.2699195]

>>2699192

I agree.

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

[Anonymous No.2699198]

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

[Anonymous No.2699201]

>>2699198

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

[Anonymous No.2699206]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699204]

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

[Anonymous No.2699213]

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

[Anonymous No.2699218]

>>2699213
Don't be a prick mate.

[Anonymous No.2699222]

>>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

[Anonymous No.2699228]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699230]

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

[Anonymous No.2699253]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699254]

Supposedly he was one of those authentic geniuses.

[Anonymous No.2699261]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699282]

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

[Anonymous No.2699284]

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

[Bolllo No.2699290]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699298]

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

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

[Anonymous No.2699315]

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

RIP

[Anonymous No.2699316]

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

Damn right.

[Anonymous No.2699349]

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)

[Anonymous No.2699347]

>>2699316
>2012
>being this luddite

[Anonymous No.2699351]

>>2699349

*Einar

[Anonymous No.2699374]

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

ok you fuckhead, enjoy your slow death

[Anonymous No.2699377]

>>2699374
> Arguing against technology on 4chan

[Anonymous No.2699382]

>>2699377
> All technology is exactly the same

lazy counterpoint general

[Anonymous No.2699390]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699392]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699394]

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

Who was Skip?

[Anonymous No.2699395]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699407]

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

[Anonymous No.2699408]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699414]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2699423]

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

[Anonymous No.2699425]

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

[Anonymous No.2699426]

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

[Anonymous No.2699447]

>>2699425
I loved that short story.

[Anonymous No.2699460]

>the martian chronicles
so many feels

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

[Anonymous No.2699469]

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

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2699472]

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

[Anonymous No.2699491]

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

[Anonymous No.2699494]

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

[Anonymous No.2699507]

>>2699494
I hated every word in those sentences.

Keep that in mind.

[Anonymous No.2699532]

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

[Anonymous No.2699555]

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

[Anonymous No.2699583]

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.

[digan No.2699600]

Martian Chronicles inspired me to go back to writing.

Thank you Ray.

[Anonymous No.2699651]

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

[Anonymous No.2699668]

He's experiencing Fahrenheit 451 for himself.

[Anonymous No.2699674]

"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.

[Anonymous No.2699700]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699737]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699750]

>>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!

[Anonymous No.2699759]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699760]

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

bro, do u even read?

[Anonymous No.2699764]

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

[Anonymous No.2699774]

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

[Anonymous No.2699775]

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

[Anonymous No.2699788]

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

[Anonymous No.2699795]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699849]

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?

[Anonymous No.2699855]

>>2699788

..was it because maybe he was barely alive?

[Anonymous No.2699877]

>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.

[Anonymous No.2699936]

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

[Anonymous No.2699946]

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

[Anonymous No.2699947]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699952]

> 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.

[Anonymous No.2699964]

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

[Anonymous No.2699968]

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.

[Anonymous No.2699969]

>>2699952

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

[Anonymous No.2699974]

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

[Anonymous No.2699984]

>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?

[Anonymous No.2699986]

>>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

[Anonymous No.2699992]

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

[Anonymous No.2699998]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700002]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700009]

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

[Anonymous No.2700011]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700017]

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

[Anonymous No.2700018]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700019]

>>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.)

[Anonymous No.2700020]

>>2700017
>Ugly American plebeian
>A loss.

[Anonymous No.2700023]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700025]

>>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!!!

[Anonymous No.2700030]

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.

[Anonymous No.2700033]

>>2700025
okay, i admit it.

[Anonymous No.2700035]

>>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...

[Anonymous No.2700036]

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

[Anonymous No.2700040]

>>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?

[Anonymous No.2700049]

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.

[Anonymous No.2700051]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700056]

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

[Teddyhands !!gQYFtCw/Zqk No.2700083]

POURING ONE OUT FOR MY NIGGA RAY

[Anonymous No.2700087]

>>2700056

I think you may be onto something there...

[Benny Profane !!muO1YE/mn/J No.2700095]

>>2700087

>dat filename

[Anonymous No.2700120]

[Anonymous No.2700138]

R.I.P.

[Anonymous No.2700146]

Illustrated Man is my favorite collection of short stories ever.

RIP, good man.

[Anonymous No.2700163]

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

[Anonymous No.2700178]

>>2698861

This

[Anonymous No.2700184]

>>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).

[Anonymous No.2700185]

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

[Anonymous No.2700203]

>>2699190
they already made equilibrium

[Ayahuasca No.2700220]

;_;

[Anonymous No.2700374]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700391]

Harold Bloom thinks Bradbury is a okay.

[Anonymous No.2700401]

OBLIGATORY

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

[Anonymous No.2700411]

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).

[Anonymous No.2700415]

>>2700411

>Ellison

Pleb.

[Anonymous No.2700419]

>>2700401
Was just about to post it.

[Anonymous No.2700423]

incredibly worth it, the man was a genius

[Anonymous No.2700425]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.2700441]

Picked up a copy of The Illustrated Man a week ago and was going through a read through.
I'm actually ashamed I made a troll thread a couple days ago on one of his short stories.
I'm sorry Bradbury, may you find solace on Mars for aeons to come.
We'll never give up on literature.
RIP ;-;

[Anonymous No.2700448]

Early in his writing, he wrote this short story about a Ferris wheel that aged people when it went clockwise, and made people more youthful when turned counterclockwise. At the end, the antagonist who uses it to go back and forth between young and middle aged to steal stuff gets stuck on the ride when it is jammed to go clockwise. Then the ride stops and the two boys trailing him go up to his cart to find a skeleton.

Gave me chills to read, and was the first thing I ever read by him. Great writer.

[Anonymous No.2700463]

The only thing of his I ever read was 451. I was fully expecting I would hate it, but its actually really good.

[Anonymous No.2700464]

I was trying to finish 451 before he died but my ADD won the war.

I know it's a short story, my ADD really is that bad.

[Anonymous No.2700469]

>>2698378
Fahrenheit 451 was about people willingly giving up their books for more digestible media. TV and radio. And eventually just watching people live (reality tv) and eventually just living with the TV as though it's family. all the while a faceless shadow gov't made their wants law, and waged hidden wars against faceless nations.

He wasn't far off really.

The only thing he was wrong about was the internet.

[Anonymous No.2700479]

>>2699952
Fuck off, buddy, Bradbury's work is important to all of us in the anglosphere, whether we like it or think it's good (which, personally, I do.)

[Anonymous No.2700486]

R.I.P.

[Anonymous No.2700514]

I, for one, wish it came sooner, before people started believing his crap was good.

[Anonymous No.2700558]

>>2699113

You should meet

>>2700514

[Anonymous No.2700561]

>>2700558

Never ceases to amaze

[Anonymous No.2700612]

>>2698539
>your local library.

Ha. haha... HaHA... HAHAHAHA!

[Anonymous No.2700645]

Haven't read Bradbury, not yet, but if even my illiterate boss mentioned his death he deserves a post.

[Anonymous No.2700660]

>2012
>Not loving The Pedestrian
Please don't do this.

[Anonymous No.2700789]

Paying my respects by posting on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.2700792]

I suppose it is a good time now to read Fahrenheit 451

[Anonymous No.2700797]

>pop on /lit/ cause recently reignited love for reading
>stickied dead Ray Bradbury
>not mentioned by any of my friends/family in real life, on facebook, or at work

Thanks /lit/, but I'm disappointed you're the only source to tell me about this.

[Anonymous No.2700830]

He was at his best as a short story writer.

[Anonymous No.2700832]

NO NO NO PLEASE NO! FUCK!

[Anonymous No.2700837]

god fucking dammit I wanted to meet him at least once

[Anonymous No.2700859]

Oh God. Someone made a Bradbury thread about a week or two ago and I replied with: "He's still alive?" I legitimately didn't know but I inferred from the how old 451 was when I had read it that he was dead. This is my fault. I killed Bradbury. Goodnight, sweet prince.

[Anonymous No.2700889]

>>2698435

You are now my favorite person. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only person to have ever read "There Will Come Soft Rains". There's a reference to it in Fallout 3; I spent forever trying to find the location in-game, and when I finally did, I cried tears of joy.

Fitting that he passed the same day as the transit of Venus.

[Anonymous No.2700899]

Bradbury wite some brilliant short stories.

[Anonymous No.2700910]

What.

[Anonymous No.2700912]

>>2700889
>Fitting that he passed the same day as the transit of Venus.
YFW he's up on Venus now.

Didn't he write a story about Venus anyway? Like, people could live there but it had these huge storms and the kids hadn't seen the Sun?

[Anonymous No.2700913]

>>2700912
All Summer in a day

I don't know if it was Venus.

[Anonymous No.2700914]

The funny thing is that I was just thinking of him last week. I didn't realize he was so old.

[Anonymous No.2700918]

>>2700913
It is Venus.

[Anonymous No.2700938]

>>2700912
Yes, All Summer in a Day. It wasn't Venus, though, it was someplace else.

[Anonymous No.2700941]

>>2700938
It was Venus

[Anonymous No.2700956]

now he's collecting buck rogers comic-strips in heaven.

[Anonymous No.2701033]

RIP. The Martian Chronicles helped me through a rough time in my life. The only time I've ever needed escapism, thanks Ray.

[Anonymous No.2701044]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s

[Anonymous No.2701053]

I found out about this while listening to Fleet Foxes, I think this is a good song to listen to whilst taking a moment to think about Ray.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkEAIqnGTE

[Anonymous No.2701116]

RIP IN PEACE SWEET PRINCE

I WILL NEVER FROGERT TE TIMES

[Anonymous No.2701142]

Thanks, Ray

[Anonymous No.2701147]

>I think some extraordinary good writers are appearing: Sladek, Malzberg, Disch. I hate to name specific ones, because I'll leave out one that I really like. Ursula LeGuin, for example. I think it is like the twerp fans say. "Gosh, wow!" It is really gosh, wow! Today. People are coming into the field today who are so much better than the older writers. Like Chip Delaney. At one time we had only one writer who was even literate, and that was Ray Bradbury. That's the only one, I swear by God.
>--PKD

RIP

[Anonymous No.2701159]

I recently read 'The Illustrated Man' and didn't like it much.

Rest in peace to him and all the best to his family.

[Anonymous No.2701162]

>>2698435
I liked The Veldt, Kaleidoscope and The Long Rain.

[Anonymous No.2701164]

Shine on, you crazy diamond.

[Anonymous No.2701241]

This piece from "The Kilimanjaro Device" has all I feel about reading:

““What kind of stuff you put in?” he asked.
I could have said: Reading late at night, reading many nights over the years until almost morning, reading up in the mountains in the snow or reading at noon in Pamplona, or reading by the streams or out in a boat somewhere along the Florida coast. Or I could have said: All of us put our hands on this Machine, all of us thought about it and bought it and touched it and put our love in it and our remembering what his words did to us twenty years or twenty-five or thirty years ago. There’s a lot of life and remembering and love put by here, and that’s all the gas and the fuel and the stuff or whatever you want to call it; the rain in Paris, the sun in Madrid, the snow in the high Alps, the smoke off the guns in the Tyrol, the shine of light off the Gulf Stream, the explosion of bombs or the explosion of leapt fish, that’s the gas and the fuel and the stuff here; I should have said that, I thought it, but it stayed unsaid.”

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[Anonymous No.2701416]

bump

[Anonymous No.2701526]

Fuck. Rereading "There Will Come Soft Rains" in his honor.

[Deep&Edgy !UfFKGtFx2M!!/0aWHODYBc0 No.2701535]

am i still banned?

[Anonymous No.2701570]

Fantastic interview with Bradbury about the meaning of science, life, and the universe.

Really lays out an incredible view of why we are here.

[Anonymous No.2701573]

>>2701570

Woops! Forgot the link.

http://www.secretsofthecity.com/secrets/view/mpls-st-pauls-interview-with-ray-bradbury

[Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. No.2701787]

I really thought he was dead, lol

[Anonymous No.2701823]

>>2698861
Fuentes

>shit writer
>shit books
>mexican

[Anonymous No.2701848]

451 is completely overrated, and his personal beliefs irritate me.

[Anonymous No.2702042]

The fucker can write an interesting short story (Asimov will put you to sleep, pronto). Try the Martian Chronicles.
And 451 was great for its time and still holds up a bit.

[Anonymous No.2702130]

>>2702042
nightfall is a great fucking short story

asimov had his flaws, believe me, but on his day he could write a great story

[Anonymous No.2702139]

>>2700956
Fuck, that's touching.

I wonder why it has so many errors, though?

[Anonymous No.2702229]

Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiUAq4aVTjY

[Anonymous No.2702490]

Farenheit 451 is what got me interested in reading novels on a regular basis, way back in sixth grade. Twenty two now, and try to read as much as possible. Bradbury (from interviews before his death) was totally the archetype of the bitter, sentimental old man who hated everything after the 60's, but damn do I owe him for waking my brain up to literature. Rest in peace you excellent bastard.

[ϟ ＺＨＫＮＤ ϟ !Ry9.MAY90A No.2702558]

MY FAVORITE SHORT STORIES BY HIM ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE CHILDREN AS PROTAGONISTS IN "DYSTOPIAN" SETTINGS.

[Anonymous No.2702751]

>>2702558
yeah in the "future"

[Anonymous No.2702846]

I don't think Bradbury really was a Sci-fi writer. Not like we know it. His science fiction was remarkably short on science, for one thing. So I guess that just leaves fiction. And really, that's what he was. A fiction writer. A dream-weaver, a weirdo, someone who took those fantasies of rockets and mars that only the Golden Age could conjure from his mind and put it down on paper.

He wasn't high writing; I remember an old Simpsons episode where Martin Short said, "What -about- Bradbury?" But he was dreamer writing, fantastic ideas and places and people. He was the saint of bibliophile, for experience, that reading is not solely about the consumption of information, but the feeling of that consumption. He was a man of a different time, a voice of hope and dreams from the past, and dreams that carry on to the future.

I never met the man, but it feels like I lost an old friend for how long he's been in my life, for how many times I've read Something Wicked This Way Comes and Halloween Tree. I was happy when I read his stories, and I'm happy when I read his stories now that I'm older.

So RIP, Mr. Bradbury. I hope they have rocket-ships wherever you are.

[Anonymous No.2702887]

What is science fiction? All these people maligning Bradbury and saying he isn't sci fi never define the term itself.

[Anonymous No.2702924]

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury. You were awesome and Fahrenheit 451 was a great book.

[ϟ ＺＨＫＮＤ ϟ !Ry9.MAY90A No.2702972]

I ASSUME THAT YOU, PERSONS, ARE AWARE THAT RAY BRADBURY WROTE OTHER "THINGS" APART FROM "FAHRENHEIT 451".

IS THAT ACCURATE?

[Anonymous No.2702978]

>>2702972

You're right. Slaughterhouse 5 and Brave New World are also great works.

[Anonymous No.2703008]

>>2702972

Yeah...he also wrote lots of shitty short stories. In fact Ray Bradbury was commonly known as the "toilet friend" because the average dump took about the same time as it took to read one of them. He won the Toilet Author award many times running and at one point there were more Ray Bradbury books in toilets than there were bibles in hotel rooms.

RAY BRADBURY: THE FAVORITE AUTHOR FOT TAKING A SHIT WITH.

I still remember the advertising slogan in 1963: "Need a shit? Take a Bradbury on your short journey!" In fact it was common to hear "I need to take a Bradbury" as a polite and discrete way to say: "I NEED TO TAKE A HUMUNGOUS DUMP AND WILL STINK THE FUCKING PLACE UP LIKE A FUCKING NOMADS ARSEHOLE".

RIP Ray Bradbury. Taking a shit will never be the same again. :(

[Anonymous No.2703170]

Ray, with you now the last of shine of The Golden Age ends. Now....the Long and Dark Night. RIP

[Anonymous No.2703322]

>>2703170

>pseudo-intellect detected

[Anonymous No.2703340]

Bradbury = modern day Herman Melville

OVERATED

[Anonymous No.2703345]

>>2703340

this.

Can someone now unsticky this? It is really getting absurd...

[Anonymous No.2703491]

>>2702139
Old people just lose touch with writing, I believe. My grandfather left me memoirs, written when he was 68 (my family never lives to be that old) and random words were capitalized, misspelled, out of place, etc etc. Which was bizarre, because he was so well-written in his younger days.

TL;DR--- He was old.

[Anonymous No.2703636]

Fahrenheit 451 was better than 1984 and Brave New World

[Anonymous No.2703645]

>>2703636

You have one post to reword that statement

[trollforJustice !LAbIRp9cT. No.2703672]

>>2703636
Brave New World > Fahrenheit 451 > 1984

1984 wasn't as believable because its characters acted the least like real humans of all three books.

[Anonymous No.2703681]

I've read Something Wicked This Way Comes, Illustrated Man, Martian Chronicles, F451, and many of his short stories. He was a good read when I was younger. My father also read Bradbury around the same age I did. Prepubescent-Atomic Age-SF will always be fantastic.

[Anonymous No.2703718]

>>2703345
Shut up.

[Anonymous No.2703722]

When I heard the news it was the closest to crying I've done in a while. I suppose now he's solidified in history, and his chronicle is complete.

[Anonymous No.2703809]

Never heard of him, so I wiki'd him.

>Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer.

Stopped reading right there.

[Anonymous No.2703818]

>>2702846
In fact he himself said that 451 was the only Sci-fi story he ever wrote.

[Anonymous No.2703882]

get the big giant omnibuses of short story collections OP

[Anonymous No.2704301]

It was a pleasure to read.

[Anonymous No.2704332]

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

good quote by R.B.

[SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ No.2704485]

>>2698966
>>2698966

[Anonymous No.2704683]

Was the film adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes any good? I know that Fahrenheit had a pretty weird one back in the day and the Russians made a pretty awesome animated short for There Will Come Soft Rains.

[Anonymous No.2704852]

>>2704683

It's alright. I've never seen Fahrenheit 451, but I don't think it's anywhere as weird. The carnival scenes were memorable, at least.

Incidentally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMlbZqRQX0

[Anonymous No.2704957]

>>2704683
the movie for f451 wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either. i thought it was ironic how there is a concept in f451 about books getting dumbed down and shabam you have the movie.

[Anonymous No.2704967]

The Machineries of Joy is spectacular as well. Read that shit.

[Anonymous No.2705155]

Wait, wait....

This board has a mod?

[Anonymous No.2705343]

>>2703809

[Anonymous No.2705346]

>>2703645
I'd agree with him that it was definitely better than Brave New World at least.

[Anonymous No.2705362]

>>2700889
Really? It was required reading in my seventh-grade English class.

[Anonymous No.2705459]

I-I'm sorry, Ray. ;_;

[Anonymous No.2705511]

>>2705459

>Those aren't books

No shit, you can still read them though. What a fag.

[Anonymous No.2705562]

The Halloween Tree

the cartoon network tv special... i watched that every year with my family.

[Anonymous No.2705871]

SEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX OMGGGGGGGGG

[Anonymous No.2705886]

heres moarr its from /b/!!!!

[Anonymous No.2705901]

Dear god, /lit/ really needs additional janitors.

[Anonymous No.2705910]

>>2705901

I've emailed moot repeatedly requesting this very thing. No replies yet, we're the forgotten shitstain of 4chan

[Anonymous No.2706316]

i dont think anyone posted this, , ..

comedy bit hateing on him...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XNBfs00hxI

[Anonymous No.2706720]

At least he died at an old age, having already achieved success. It ruins my day when I find out that a writer became famous posthumously.

RIP

[Anonymous No.2706803]

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a good one, genuinely creepy.

[Anonymous No.2706822]

ITT: pedestrian, plebeians, dilettantes who read fantasy instead of literature.
> ISHIGGED.

[Anonymous No.2706934]

I've always loved the setting he created in Something Wicked This Way Comes.

[Espagnoll !/5aJFFL8RI No.2706947]

Bradbury is dead, Clark is dead, Heinlein is dead, Asimov is dead, Dick is dead... My world doesn't exist anymore.

[Anonymous No.2707081]

>>2703636

Everything is better than 1984.

[Anonymous No.2707090]

Look, dystopia genre/utopia in general sucks, we all know this. However, this is one of the worst.

Let's create a dystopia based on what had already happened (Nazi book burning). Holy moley this Bradbury is so insightful, he can predict what happened in the actual past! That's generally the one redeeming aspect of dystopia/utopia books in general, that they have some form of prophecy that eventuates in the world we live in. This doesn't even have that.

It gets better

To make it more interesting so people actually bother with the book, why not dedicate immense resources on unbelievable means to ensure that books are not in existence. That and being so clever by naming the people responsible for the removal of books in such a fashion that it is the complete opposite of what is expected of them in the society we live in, really makes you sit and ponder about how deep and important this book is. Not really.

This is poop in a bucket.

It kind of makes me ponder as to whether or not this isn't just another attempt by the US to create their own version of what's long been done abroad (comparison to 1984, We etc) and hold it in praise. Take Moby-Dick for example.


- Capsguy

[Anonymous No.2707151]

>>2707090
why all this mad?

[Anonymous No.2707331]

>>2698435
Holy fuck, he wrote "There will come soft Rains"?!

I need to take a trip to the library.

[Anonymous No.2707433]

>>2707331

http://www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-online/originals/soft_rains.htm

it's available for free online

[Anonymous No.2707914]

Rest in peace.

[Anonymous No.2707956]

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

[Anonymous No.2708305]

Rest in pee

[Anonymous No.2708474]

RIP Ray, RIP.

[Anonymous No.2708500]

>>2705459
Wow, he sucked as an individual, and as anyone that gives a damn about books

[Anonymous No.2708561]

>>2708500

He was just an old-timer.

[Anonymous No.2708563]

>>2705459

If Ray Bradbury really wrote that...I'm surprised how ignorant he is. "It smells like Anciant Egypt" (when describing a book). They didn't have books or paper in those times so how can they????

oh and CAN YOU PLEASE UNSTICKY THIS FUCKING THREAD YOU GREAT BIG CUNTS

[Anonymous No.2708584]

>>2708563
There's this cool thing called papyrus. Go back to >>>/b/

[Anonymous No.2708751]

>>2708584
Which is paper nor book.

[Anonymous No.2708839]

quit trolling
he's alive and well in brazil

[Anonymous No.2708843]

>>2708839
não está não, senhor

[Anonymous No.2709327]

didn't he write 451 in like one night?

[Anonymous No.2709336]

>>2709327
in 49 nonconsecutive hours

>Bradbury would often sojourn to the UCLA library and ramble about, pulling inspiration from one tome or another. One day, he heard the clack of typewriter keys from below. Peering down into the basement, he found a whole roomful of typewriters, available to rent for 10 cents a half-hour.

>“I got a bag of dimes, I moved into the typing room of the library, and I spent $9.80,” said Bradbury in an interview. “And I wrote Fahrenheit 451."

[Anonymous No.2709338]

>>2709336

Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks. Ulysses only took six months.

[Anonymous No.2709357]

>>2709338

Miller wrote half of "Death of a Salesman" in one night. The rest over a few weeks.

[Anonymous No.2709387]

During the summer after sixth grade, I got to see Ray Bradbury speak.

I had already fallen in love with Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles before hearing speak, but seeing the man himself was just so wonderful. Such an enthusiastic and enthralling speaker. Not even his wheelchair and poor speech could contain his excitement.

Afterwards, I got up to speak to him and told him that he was an inspiration to me, and he remains so to this day.

Rest in peace, Ray Bradbury. Truly one of the greatest writers of our time. And a wonderful man.

[Anonymous No.2709504]

[Anonymous No.2709516]

Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine are the ones I read.

RIP Ray Bradbury. You shall be dearly missed.

[Anonymous No.2709941]

Illustrated Man ftw!

[Anonymous No.2709938]

>>2698242
tryhard

[Anonymous No.2710285]

I loved that man's stories.

[Anonymous No.2710463]

;_;

[Anonymous No.2710600]

Fahrenheit 451 was garbage That books is babby's first dystopian fiction for idiots who were forced to read it in high school and recommend it when they are trying to sound smart even though they have only read 4 books in their entire life, all in english class.

I cannot describe how underwhelmed and disappointed I was in that book

[Anonymous No.2710642]

>>2710600

>I cannot describe how underwhelmed and disappointed I was in that book.

You didn't like it. That's fine. Every book is not for every man. But to say it's for idiots and what not just makes you look foolish. Thousands of people, with more literary knowledge than you will ever gain, disagree. You are a little punk on 4chan, a complete no one. Posts like yours are why /lit/ is a cesspool and all the readers on the other boards hate us.

[Anonymous No.2710786]

>>2710642
Not that guy but Fahrenheit 451 sucks. When was the last time you read it?

[Anonymous No.2710941]

Am I the only one who thought he was already dead?

[Anonymous No.2711055]

Oi, >>2700859

>>2710941 Here.

[Anonymous No.2711122]

ok can we get this fucking fags face out of here im sick of scrolling past this dead white male

[Anonymous No.2711132]

>>2711122

this.

Oh and I read it as "dead white whale" first time. Thought Moby Dick had died.

[Anonymous No.2711136]

Can we get congress to vote on Ray Bradbury being a vegetable?

[Anonymous No.2711156]

>>2710786

True...F451 was based on historical events which had just transpired not long ago (Nazi book burnings), so nothing really innovative. Also, as far as predicting the future, many far far better authors than Bradbury have gotten pretty close. Bradbury, the retard and crap author he was, WAS SO FUCKING WRONG IF HE WAS MORE WRONG HE'D ALMOST BE RIGHT. Books are on the way to being a thing of the past much like magnetic storage. The dissemination of information is actually INCREASING and not DECREASING as time goes by...surely someone with half a brain would have guessed this even the year he wrote the book. And finally I will give you the reason that F451 is the most retarded book ever created:

IF THE FIREMEN BURN BOOKS AND START FIRES...THEN WHO PUTS THEM OUT FFS????

[Anonymous No.2711158]

>>2711136

Not a bad idea. At least they planted Ray Bradbury...you can't plant pizza.

[Anonymous No.2711165]

dude

[Anonymous No.2711177]

>>2708584
>>2708584

I and many others, would argue papyrus is not actually paper. it is parchment. Since it has the wrong texture, is brittle (unlike paper) AND IS NOT MADE FROM FUCKING WOOD YOU DUMB CUNT.

Just because it LOOKS like paper, doesn't mean IT IS. IN that case, is a fucking tortilla "paper"? HEY HEY???

by the way....CUNT (yes you)

[Anonymous No.2711237]

>>2708563
It's called expressive writing, retard. What are you even doing on this board, oh my god.

[Anonymous No.2711368]

RIP

[Anonymous No.2711652]

>>2698242
RIP in peace

[Anonymous No.2711727]

Requiescat In Pace in peace

[Anonymous No.2711737]

lik dis if u cry evertim

[Anonymous No.2712085]

He died a bitter old man and a technophobe RIP in peace :(

[Anonymous No.2712274]

>>2712085
>bitter old man

Says who?

[Anonymous No.2712462]

>>2711177
Taking words for their literal meaning only could be a sign of a myriad of mental disorders, but I'm going to go with the increasing popular autism.
Come back to /lit/ when you have learned to appreciate literature, you autistic fuck.

[Anonymous No.2712676]

It's kinda sad how a sticky on a literature board about a famous author who died recently only got about 400 replies in about a week.

[Anonymous No.2712678]

>>2712676

The population of this board isn't all that large. And only a small percentage of us can agree on liking any given author. It's hardly surprising.

[Anonymous No.2712706]

>>2711156
Hey, you said pretty much exactly what I said bro

[Anonymous No.2713202]

>>2703491
The fortitude of both of those men ...

[Anonymous No.2713397]

Horety shit I broke 4chan without even meaning to. Sorry moot, I'll stop posting like such a fucking schizo.

[Anonymous No.2713758]

I've only read Fahrenheit, though it fascinated me. It is a subtle combination of Equilibrium and 1984, which has a nice emphasis on the importance of literature. It doesn't seem forced, like other dystopic novels can (See how important culture is! See it!, you get the picture)

A clear recommendation of 451

[Anonymous No.2713813]

I read Fahrenheit back in the day and I absolutely loved it. I had the chance to meet Ray ten years ago at a local event in our town where he was one of the featured guests.

I guess now is more perfect than ever to look at some of his other stuff.

[Anonymous No.2713886]

only bought 451 like 4 days ago after reading abotu it, sad to here.

[Anonymous No.2713931]

Just about all of it's worth it. 451 is the best, but even if you don't like SF or fantasy, his description alone is entertaining enough to warrant the read.

[Anonymous No.2713968]

>>2711727
ATM Machine PIN number

[Anonymous No.2714171]

>>2713968
>atm machine
>automated teller machine machine
>machine machine

holy shit that bothers me

[Anonymous No.2714701]

OK, I love Bradbury, but srsly, its time to unsticky

[Anonymous No.2714731]

>>2714701
>its time to unsticky
his face is starting to creep you out as well?

[Anonymous No.2714736]

>>2714731

[Anonymous No.2715007]

451 was terrible

[Anonymous No.2715058]

It's worth it. Dandelion Wine, the Martian Chronicles, and 451, at least.... not sure what other Bradburian works are out there....

[Anonymous No.2715079]

<---she's dead too. That actually helped her become famous.

[Anonymous No.2715083]

>>2715079
At least Bradbury would understand why Muslims get so upset over Quran burning....

[Anonymous No.2715085]

>>2715083
I would bet Anne Frank would, too, for that matter. Just sayin

[Anonymous No.2715141]

youtu.be/69637mM5-vM

[Anonymous No.2715287]

Dandelion Wine made me feel nostalgia for lost youth while I was still very young. The Illustrated Man put chills up my spine. R is for Rocket made my heart ache for the loneliness of space. I Sing the Body Electric made me weep.

I felt he'd lost his touch by The Halloween Tree, though. I couldn't read anything he'd written after that one.

[Anonymous No.2716681]

This is so fucking strange.

I didn't even know he died and I happened to have read 451 for my first time tonight

[Anonymous No.2716810]

Hey mods time to stop the necrophilia don't you think?

The guy died, end of story. Fuentes was a fucking greater writer and nobody gave a shit about him in this bullshit board

[Anonymous No.2716821]

>>2716810

And THIS is how I find out Fuentes died? Fuck, that was low-key.

Poor Carlos - no Nobel prize for you.

[Anonymous No.2717060]

>>2698242
>>2716821

I think he didn't got it because he didn't quite showed a commitment towards Literature, with a capital "L." No doubt he was a great writer, but according to his time, he didn't gave in to the serious study of literature until later after he got his Masters in Economy, that is, after he got his Law degree in Mexico.

No commitment no Nobel.

Mexilitist in here.

[Anonymous No.2717431]

I was getting tired of books in general at age 12 when I happened to find The Martian Chronicles on my dad's bookshelf

that book schooled my shit and I read throughout my teens. Those days reading TMC, I'd read a chapter and lie on my bed for a while thinking about it and picking it apart. The contrast between the Martian sandships and the idiot human settlers freaking out and firing rifles at ghosts of millenia past who just wanted to talk to them, what should have been a solemn moment of final contact between two species, and that toolbox just couldn't handle it. I wondered what the Martians must have thought of this new "king of Mars" who practically pissed himself and lashed out like a rabid animal when they just wanted to talk to him and give him an incredible gift. Some hero.

I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head and my internet connection here is spotty but my favorite stories from that collection were the one with the abandoned automatic house (somehow really chilling), the psychic Martians and the human explorers spreading memetic madness, and the last family, burning the map of the now-ruined Earth. And the Martians turning Mars over to that douche because there was no one else. Those four scenes are as clear in my imagination as the day I first read them and that book is a treasure to me.

[Anonymous No.2717610]

>>2700889
He didn't just die on the same day as the transit, he died -during- the transit.

Twain was born during the appearance of Haley's comet, and died during its next pass, as he promised he would.

He wrote heartbreaking tales of man's hunger for sunlight on Venus, and died during the few hours it was wrapped in the light of the sun.

Small poems written by time and space.

[Anonymous No.2717617]

>>2700889
He didn't just die on the same day as the transit, he died -during- the transit.

Twain was born during the appearance of Haley's comet, and died during its next pass, as he promised he would.

He wrote heartbreaking tales of man's hunger for sunlight on Venus, and died during the few hours it was wrapped in the light of the sun.

Small poems written in time and space.

[Anonymous No.2718307]

Bradbury was a crap writer
Melville was a crap writer

They are both dead and they were both crap.

/thread

UN STICKY GET

[Anonymous No.2718349]

What is it with 'Muriccanitos (arriba arriba) trying to promote their awful authors by using the same propaganda they use to instigate illegal wars and invasions in the middle east???

Melville's works went out of print (all of them!!!) just after he died and wer eout of print for around 50 years before the Americans started becoming what they hated and rebelled against (colonialists) just after WW2. Melville went out of print because he was AWFUL AND BORING AS FUCK AND MOBY DICK IS AN UNEDITED, RAMBLING PIECE OF SHIT BOOK.

Same with this guy Bradbury. He wrote short little stories which coincidently took the same amount of time reading them as TAKING A DUMP. Do you call that "high-brow literature"? It is like saying the batman comics are "high-brow art".

It's absurd. Next we will hear that congress made Bradbury a vegetable.

Oh, yeah I like the latest lie today from United States of Mexico: "Russia supplied Syria with attack helicopters". Lie. Russia fixed helicopters which they sold Syria 30 years ago and delivered them back after having repaired them which was agreed 4 years ago. Even the 'Murican Secretary of State's word is false, fake and can't be trusted (in other words she's been proven to be a lying munt)...IS IT ANY SURPRISE ALL THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT BRADBURY ONE OF THE MOST PATHETIC AUTHORS EVER?????

Unsticky this crap you cunts...!!

[Anonymous No.2718361]

>>2718349
you are upset for nothing

[Anonymous No.2718373]

>>2717431

>age 12 when I happened to find The Martian Chronicles on my dad's bookshelf
>that book schooled my shit
>my internet connection here is spotty

You really come across as a redneck hilbilly.

Where the fuck don't you get high speed internet toady? WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO LIVE TO NOT GET HIGH SPEED BROADBAND?????!!!! THEY EVEN GET IT IN SWZILAND AND I SAW A DOCUMENTARY ON THE SOMALI PIRATES AND THEY EVEN GET IT IN SOMALI REFUGEE CAMPS!!!!

It's official. Ray Bradbury is loved by rednecks. Is it because with their limited brain capacity, short stories is just about all they can digest?

"RAY BRADBURY: WRITING FOR THE BELOW AVERAGED IQ AFFLICTED SINCE 1943"

[Anonymous No.2718381]

>>2718361

Who says I am upset? Can you denote tone from a written message?

HAHAHAHAHAHA I AM ACTUALLY TOTALLY ECSTATIC. WEEEEEEEEEE....I AM SPINNING IN CIRCLES ON MY CHAIR...WEEEEEEEEE... :D :D :)))

[Anonymous No.2718418]

>>2718349
>>2718381
You clearly have rustled jimmies.

[Anonymous No.2718589]

>>2718418

and I have clearly jimmied your rustles...

[Anonymous No.2718870]

>>2718349
What the...How the fuck do you go from Bradbury's writing to current political affairs?

[gamesgoyce !JSfhyH6X4A No.2719074]

>>2698242

It's all good to read

[Anonymous No.2719554]

He is friggin awful. His Science Fantasy shit is awful. If anyone hear read Martian Chronicles and liked it they belong on /b/.

[Anonymous No.2719610]

>If anyone hear read Martian Chronicles and liked it they belong on /b/.
>If anyone hear read Martian Chronicles
>hear

[Anonymous No.2719733]

If you haven't read Bradbury, read it or kill yourself

[Anonymous No.2720112]

Hi mom:)

[Anonymous No.2720417]

>>2698242
Do you think the mods will unsticky this if we complain enough?

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.2720481]

>>2720417

No. Maybe if we sage enough though...

[Anonymous No.2720688]

>>2720481
Will there be a sticky when Deep&Edgy dies?

[Anonymous No.2720713]

>>2720688
Has anyone enjoyed things he's written?

[Anonymous No.2720750]

>>2720713
>implying /lit/ is about enjoying reading

[Anonymous No.2720777]

>be 11
>Fahrenheit 451
>main char is reading a book on subway
>burns it into his mind
>leaves city joins group of men who have all memorized djff books
>they walk and then a-bomb hits city everyone falls flat and main char finally remembers how he met his wife 10 years earlier as she is being incinerated
>how did no one see his book on subway
>me:owned
>your mind:blown

and that's what immortality is made of, my friends.

[Anonymous No.2720857]

>>2720777
If he's so immortal, how come he's dead?

[Anonymous No.2720885]

STICKAN IN A POSTEH

[Anonymous No.2721177]

Do we really still need this stickied after 10 days?

[Anonymous No.2721341]

I just wasted 3 hours of my life reading 451, terrible book, and completely overrated.

Too bad this guy is dead, now i can't e-send him hate-mail.

[Anonymous No.2721386]

>>2721341
Fahrenheit 451 > Brave New World > 1984

[Anonymous No.2721402]

>>2698519
what happened here

[Anonymous No.2721418]

>>2706316
KURT AND VONNEGUT ARE NOT SIMILAR GOD DAMMIT FUCK ALL MY RAGE

[Anonymous No.2721423]

>>2721386

It's remarkable how I've never heard anyone claim 1984 is the superior novel to Brave New World.

Is this because Huxley had a more accurate prediction than Orwell?

[Anonymous No.2721435]

>>2707090
>not realizing he is more of a character writer than a sci fi writer
Fuck man you probably don't like Vonnegut either
Screw off you little shit.

[Anonymous No.2721463]

golden apples of the sun and the illustrated man are both phenomenal

[Anonymous No.2721462]

>>2711156
>OMG THE BOOK DID NOT CATER TO ME
>OMG IT WASN'T FOCUSING ON SCI-FI BUT IT IS LABELED SCI-FI
>BOOK IZ BAD
Wow, you're retarded to the nth degree. If anything, he was more right than most sci-fi writers. Look at the fucking state of our culture. Look at YOURSELF.
We have become a nation of consumers, doing without thinking, or just thinking in order to make others look bad.
People HAVE stopped reading and thinking. Look at CoD vs indie games and less well known titles; those who play CoD not only refuse to think and use their knowledge to better the games they play, they also have the nerve to call people who enjoy anything they don't want to put the effort into learning about 'hipsters.'
God, I don't know why I try though. Pretty much this >>2711237

[sage No.2723723]

>>2721386
agreed.

[Anonymous No.2723873]

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[Anonymous No.2723937]

[Anonymous No.2724073]

next post is 451 stop there

[Anonymous No.2724127]

[Anonymous No.2724340]

>>2724073
Nope

[Anonymous No.2724381]

>>2724340
Why

[Anonymous No.2724427]

This sticky is dead.

[Anonymous No.2724511]

>>2724427
Goodnight sticky prince.

[Anonymous No.2724575]

[Anonymous No.2724579]

[Anonymous No.2724581]

This will never be taken down

[Anonymous No.2724582]

>saging a sticky

[Anonymous No.2724589]

>>2724582
>playing a child's game

[Anonymous No.2724601]

"i zux coxxxx xDXDXDXDXDXDXD" -- mod

[Anonymous No.2724609]

>>2724589
>life is a child's game

[Anonymous No.2724678]

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[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2724725]

so i was like walking down the hallwalkway walking down the hall and like saw this fucking dude and he had like a fucking shit on his shit and there was like blood walking down the hall and i saw like this fucking unicorn giving birth to a unicorn giving birth to that one unicorn that was giving birth out the third unicorns ass and like i fucking waited for like an hour and i had like ten boners and then i got bored and shit

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2724760]

>>2724725
>>2724725

but just as i was about to like leave and shit that second unicorn that was waist deep in unicorn pussy but like his head was inside and there was like a bulge in the first unicorns stomach where i figured the second unicorns horn was about to like fucking poke out and shit while he was still squeezing out the third unicorn out his ass he said
"i dont think iiiiiiiii can be saaaaaaaaved"
and i was like
"berererere reu reu berererere reu reu"

[Anonymous No.2724796]

Vilg uvv, bmapaeyhc.

[Anonymous No.2724814]

Rao kioc, fryd'c ib?? :D

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2724818]

>>2724796
>>2724796

but just then there was like this really long piece of lightning shooting out the third unicorns ass and like i waited for it to cool off because i thought that it would probably cool off if i just waited and like two hours later i saw that it was another unicorn disguised like ass lightning and it said in like this really scared voice:
"I-I am nothing. I am nothing! I am nothing.
and the first unicorn was like
"shh shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck"

[Anonymous No.2724823]

>>2724818

Ouin crund cduno ec cmekrdmo ehdanacdehk, pid E fuimt nydran lid so inadrny.

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2724856]

>>2724823

and i was all like
"dont call me your fucking friend"
and the second unicorn started having a seizure and was all like
"EEEEERRRURUUUURURURURURURURURUURU"
and like this snake started coming out its ass and there was like blood on the snake and he was like
"get this fucking blood snake out my ass"
and the 4th unicorn kept saying
"i-i am nothing i am nothing i am nothing"
and the first unicorn was like
"have you guys ever seen that one episode of mash where duke was like gonna get a blow job from frank but then frank was like dude im not gay"
and the third unicorn was like
"maybe im finally turning into what they said id always turn into...a maniac"
and we were all like
"BRRRREEENNG DA RA RAAAAAAA"

[Anonymous No.2724859]

why

[Anonymous No.2724879]

Dra fruma socdano uv dra vuns uv jymia meac rettah eh drec amasahdyno vuns. Edc yhymocec, dranavuna, ec uin naym tevvelimdo.

Rana dfu tevvanahd gehtc uv lussutedeac (eh uin aqysbma dra mehah yht dra luyd), ajetahdmo bmyo dfu tevvanahd byndc. Dra mehah aqbnaccac edc jymia eh dra luyd; dra luyd canjac yc dra sydaneym eh frelr dryd jymia ec aqbnaccat. Dra vunsan bmyoc yh yldeja, dra myddan y bycceja, bynd. Dra jymia uv dra mehah ec nabnacahdat yc namydeja jymia, un ybbaync eh namydeja vuns. Dra luyd uvveleydac yc axiejymahd, un ybbaync eh axiejymahd vuns.

Dra namydeja vuns yht dra axiejymahd vuns yna dfu ehdesydamo luhhaldat, sidiymmo tabahtahd yht ehcabynypma amasahdc uv dra aqbnacceuh uv jymia; pid, yd dra cysa desa, yna sidiymmo aqlmiceja, yhdykuhecdel aqdnasac – e.a., bumac uv dra cysa aqbnacceuh. Drao yna ymmuddat nacbaldejamo du dra dfu tevvanahd lussutedeac pnuikrd ehdu namydeuh po dryd aqbnacceuh. Ed ec hud buccepma du aqbnacc dra jymia uv mehah eh mehah. 20 oyntc uv mehah = 20 oyntc uv mehah ec hu aqbnacceuh uv jymia. Uh dra luhdnyno, cilr yh axiydeuh sanamo cyoc dryd 20 oyntc uv mehah yna hudrehk amca dryh 20 oyntc uv mehah, y taveheda xiyhdedo uv dra ica jymia mehah. Dra jymia uv dra mehah lyh dranavuna pa aqbnaccat uhmo namydejamo – e.a., eh cusa udran lussutedo. Dra namydeja vuns uv dra jymia uv dra mehah bnacibbucac, dranavuna, dra bnacahla uv cusa udran lussutedo – rana dra luyd – ihtan dra vuns uv yh axiejymahd. Uh dra udran ryht, dra lussutedo dryd vekinac yc dra axiejymahd lyhhud yd dra cysa desa yccisa dra namydeja vuns. Dryd caluht lussutedo ec hud dra uha fruca jymia ec aqbnaccat. Edc vihldeuh ec sanamo du canja yc dra sydaneym eh frelr dra jymia uv dra vencd lussutedo ec aqbnaccat.

[Anonymous No.2724881]

>>2724879

Hu tuipd, dra aqbnacceuh 20 oyntc uv mehah = 1 luyd, un 20 oyntc uv mehah yna fundr 1 luyd, esbmeac dra ubbuceda namydeuh. 1 luyd = 20 oyntc uv mehah, un 1 luyd ec fundr 20 oyntc uv mehah. Pid, eh dryd lyca, E sicd najanca dra axiydeuh, eh untan du aqbnacc dra jymia uv dra luyd namydejamo; yht. cu cuuh yc E tu dryd dra mehah palusac dra axiejymahd ehcdayt uv dra luyd. Y cehkma lussutedo lyhhud, dranavuna, cesimdyhauicmo yccisa, eh dra cysa aqbnacceuh uv jymia, pudr vunsc. Dra jano bumynedo uv draca vunsc sygac dras sidiymmo aqlmiceja.

Fradran, drah, y lussutedo yccisac dra namydeja vuns, un dra ubbuceda axiejymahd vuns, tabahtc ahdenamo ibuh edc ylletahdym bucedeuh eh dra aqbnacceuh uv jymia – dryd ec, ibuh fradran ed ec dra lussutedo fruca jymia ec paehk aqbnaccat un dra lussutedo eh frelr jymia ec paehk aqbnaccat.

-- Lrybdan 1, Gybedym

[Anonymous No.2724900]

>>2724725
>>2724760
>>2724818
>>2724856

What the fuck

[Anonymous No.2724903]

>>2724900
I can't stand the way Bradbury writes, and that guy imitated him perfectly.

[Anonymous No.2724912]

>>2724903
>You can't stand the way he writes.
You're a cocksucker.

[Anonymous No.2724950]

>>2724912
I do love sci-fi though. It's just that guy, he writes in such a obscure and high-flown way...Fahrenheit 451 was nice, but everything else I tried by him was a pain in the ass to read. Maybe the shitty translation (not a native speaker) butchered the original text, rendering it obscure, I don't know. No hard feelings though.