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mike alexander
31-October-2008, 03:09 AM
Well. Send me to Centauri with one author and I will demand Bradbury. October, Halloween, are Bradbury times.

Does anyone have a favorite Bradbury story, or stories? Why, if you know?
mahesh
31-October-2008, 03:26 AM
Don't LAFAYETTE me, but once, I read some Bradbury's STAFFA. unSEATTLEing!
Couldn't stomach it. But Cradbury's, I could. So I did!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL!
BigDon
31-October-2008, 05:49 AM
Well. Send me to Centauri with one author and I will demand Bradbury. October, Halloween, are Bradbury times.

Does anyone have a favorite Bradbury story, or stories? Why, if you know?

And by the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes

Open locks, whatever knocks
Salty
31-October-2008, 06:06 AM
Did he write The Martian Chronicles? I've read a lot of his stuff, and liked it. But, at the moment, cannot remember for sure anything he wrote.
GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter
31-October-2008, 06:39 AM
The Murderer. Frighteningly prescient. I still refuse to carry a cell phone, and I think this story is one of the primary reasons.
sarongsong
31-October-2008, 07:26 AM
His joie de vivre shone brightly at a lecture on Fahrenheit 451 he gave two years ago at a nearby library....at the moment, cannot remember for sure anything he wrote.:)
The Prunestar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5NxG_rr5aU) himself. (YouTube 0:53)
Jeff Root
31-October-2008, 01:00 PM
I was delighted to learn a couple of years ago that Ray Bradbury wrote the
script for the display on the second floor of the Coliseum at the 1962 World's
Fair in Seattle. I don't know how much input he had on the visual design,
but the concept had a major impact on my perceptions of how to convey
information visually and interactively. I was nine years old at the time.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
mike alexander
31-October-2008, 02:41 PM
The Murderer. Frighteningly prescient. I still refuse to carry a cell phone, and I think this story is one of the primary reasons.

Pitch-perfect, that story is. For me, at least. I don't carry a phone, either.

Now, where is my french vanilla ice cream...
mahesh
01-November-2008, 05:43 PM
The reason of my obvious opacity with Mr Bradbury's work, stems from my propensity to gravitate, preferentially towards non-fiction. It hasn't shown up often enough on my radar to warrant a look-see. But now will.
Thought i'd mention lack of it's exposure.
closetgeek
01-November-2008, 06:18 PM
And by the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes

Open locks, whatever knocks

That was Bradbury? Never even knew it was a book, I just loved that movie when I was a kid.
BigDon
01-November-2008, 06:28 PM
That was Bradbury? Never even knew it was a book, I just loved that movie when I was a kid.

How could the Nightshade and Dark Travelling Pandemonium Show be anybody else's work?
ABR.
01-November-2008, 06:32 PM
How could the Nightshade and Dark Travelling Pandemonium Show be anybody else's work?

Well said.
Robinson
01-November-2008, 07:03 PM
Let's All Kill Constance
ABR.
02-November-2008, 01:37 AM
Congratulations, mike alexander! You have everybody reading or re-reading Bradbury this weekend. Although I have to say that chrissy gets a big assist for her *blushes* remark in the other thread!

I just reread The Murderer and laughed. Last night I had trouble rendezvousing with the rest of the family for the Mall Crawl Trick or Treating. My cell phone didn't have a signal for nearly an hour -- and I got into trouble. Also sneaked in Uncle Einar and yes that's a good one.