![]() ![]() ![]() (Note: I once tried to wrangle Bradbury into an online chat with Washington Post readers. The book also presents the future Bradbury - who said he was “raised in libraries” and has been called a Luddite for his dismissal of technologies, including the Internet - most fears. The novel’s title refers to the supposed temperature at which book paper combusts. The book presents a future that would be horrific for any reader - a future in which books cannot be read. When readers judge Bradbury, they think of “Fahrenheit 451” first out of his more than 500 published works, because “Fahrenheit 451” is his dystopian masterpiece and because it a novel that was close to Bradbury’s heart. His is a very great and unusual talent.” That review stood in sharp contract to science fiction author and critic Damon Knight’s assessement that Bradbury’s “imagination is mediocre he borrows nearly all his backgrounds and props, and distorts them badly.” The cover of Ray Bradbury's “Fahrenheit 451.” (amazon)Īmerican novelist and critic Christopher Isherwood once wrote in a review of Bradbury’s work that the “sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates. ![]()
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