Ray Bradbury dies at age 91..

[Watchtower]

Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and other classics, dies at age 91 in Los Angeles.

www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/06/154422373/ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-other-classics-dies?sc=fb&cc=fp

I am very sad about this... he was one of my favorite authors and I've loved his books. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books.

Here is a better article that I just found:

abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/06/ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles-dies-at-91/

I guess you could say he was a hero of mine... and one of the best authors I've ever read. RIP Ray Bradbury.

[avp60685]

Awwwww I am sorry to hear that! I have only read Fahrenheit 451 which i read for summer reading in the year for senior year of high school

[spoonieluv247]

read F451 in seventh grade.....

the last day of school, my friends and I burned our papers from the class.... igniting all that paper was a lot harder than we thought. so we just dumped lighter fluid on them and 'Burn, baby, burn!!!'

the Devil made me do it!!!

[Mistermoonlight]

Thanks for sharing this, Chloe. He was a hero of mine as well.

I first became interested in science fiction when I was about ten years old. He was high on my reading list: The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, I Sing The Body Electric. I devoured them all.

Much later on, when I studied writing I realized that Bradbury was one of the few novelists who was also an excellent poet. These are very different areas of writing. Incorporating a poet's ability with words into a short story or novel, Bradbury was able to make his work sing with a resonance not often seen in literature.

My favorite of all his works is a short story titled "The Kiliminjaro Device" in which a man travels back in time to January, 1954 to meet an old man contemplating suicide in Ketchum, Idaho. It doesn't take long to realize that the man is Ernest Hemingway, who is helped to make a choice much more noble than the one he is contemplating. It's very short, and you can read it online here:

books.google.co.uk/books?id=00gEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA3&dq=%22ray%20bradbury%22&pg=RA1-PA68#v=onepage&q=%22ray%20bradbury%22&f=false

From 1985-92 each week I looked forward to his anthology series on TV, Ray Bradbury Theater, which always opened like this:



Finally, here is one of my favorite Bradbury quotes, a bit of advice to writers:

"Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down"
- Ray Bradbury

[avp60685]

interesting quote!