I adore Ray Bradbury. Here is a video of him discussing with such childlike enthusiasm his love of books. This brought tears to my eyes when I first watched it. His words seem so urgent...
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According to Wikipedia:
Last novel: (2006) Farewell Summer
Short story collections:
- (2010) A Pleasure To Burn
- (2011) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 1, 1938–1943
I don't count those last two because they were all stories in other places. I think Paris was all new stories. Not sure about that.
Edited to add: Nope. His Paris book was stories from other sources as well. I don't know when Ray wrote his last book of never before published work.
"Farewell to Summer" was the follow up to "Dandelion wine"
Not sure if it was his writing or my age but it was just not the same.
Love hearing the stories of him and Ray Harryhausen both starting out their careers together in Hollywood.
Both had "dinosaur on the brain"
They used to eat lunch together on the old May-berry set
Not sure if it was his writing or my age but it was just not the same.
Love hearing the stories of him and Ray Harryhausen both starting out their careers together in Hollywood.
Both had "dinosaur on the brain"
They used to eat lunch together on the old May-berry set
I love Bradbury and Harryhausen, both. Always have since I was a kid and I'm now 55. I suspect there's many of us out there whose young lives were shaped by the words and images created by these two great men.
Thanks for posting this. It's wonderful
I too started out by reading comic strips in the paper and comic books. Libraries thrilled me from the first time I ever stepped foot in one. I can't remember a time when I did not like reading. I suspect that many of us lifelong readers share a lot of similar stories from our childhood.
You're welcome, CYB. I think you're right. I'm glad you liked it. There is a 25 minute extended version on YouTube.
I can't count the number of times I read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" when I was a kid. I still think Jim Nightshade is one of the coolest character names ever in a book.
...I can remember as a smaller GNT, being all warm and toasty in a pair of flannel pajamas...kicked back in my favorite readin' chair, and letting Ray carry my imagination where he would...sci-fi was my main go to as a young'un and he was the bestest......
Bradbury had a special way of painting pictures with words. And evoking emotions.
I have been visiting the Discworld lately. Re-reading some of my favorites. Moving Pictures, Wyrd Sisters (turns Macbeth on its head), Reaper Man... starting on Mort now. Amazon has a cool program where, if you bought the paper copy of any book, you can get the Kindle version for 2.99 or less. The Discworld books have been 1.99. Pretty cool.
I have been visiting the Discworld lately. Re-reading some of my favorites. Moving Pictures, Wyrd Sisters (turns Macbeth on its head), Reaper Man... starting on Mort now. Amazon has a cool program where, if you bought the paper copy of any book, you can get the Kindle version for 2.99 or less. The Discworld books have been 1.99. Pretty cool.
Good to see you Tery.Bradbury had a special way of painting pictures with words. And evoking emotions.
I have been visiting the Discworld lately. Re-reading some of my favorites. Moving Pictures, Wyrd Sisters (turns Macbeth on its head), Reaper Man... starting on Mort now. Amazon has a cool program where, if you bought the paper copy of any book, you can get the Kindle version for 2.99 or less. The Discworld books have been 1.99. Pretty cool.
I read Run last week. I liked it
It was different than the run of the mill zombie/rage virus stories and I liked the ending. The sci-fi reader in me wanted an explanation for the effects caused by the lights but I guess since the characters didn't know why the lights effected them, the reader shouldn't know either.After I read Run, I read The Cellar by Richard Laymon. I am not going to recommend The Cellar. It was more gruesome than a Wrong Turn movie. I kept putting it down thinking, I can't read this! It's sick! but I kept picking it back up because I wanted to see how it ended. It's ending surprised me. Does anyone know if all of Laymon's novels are gruesome with sicko characters?
I read Run last week. I liked it
After I read Run, I read The Cellar by Richard Laymon. I am not going to recommend The Cellar. It was more gruesome than a Wrong Turn movie. I kept putting it down thinking, I can't read this! It's sick! but I kept picking it back up because I wanted to see how it ended. It's ending surprised me. Does anyone know if all of Laymon's novels are gruesome with sicko characters?
I have read a few of Laymon books and I'm not sure what to make of him.
He has some very depraved stuff going on in some of his books. It's kind of hit or miss with him. I really liked a book called Island. Many of his books are good and horrible at the same time.
I've been reading bits and pieces from the book "The Films of Stephen King: from Carrie to the Mist" edited by Tony Magistrale. ( Chapter 6. The Long Dream of Hopeless Sorrow: The failure of the Communist Myth in Kubrick's The Shining by Michael J. Blouin)
My Best Friend's Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix
I just finished The Fireman by Joe Hill. Very good! I think Joe shows more 'heart' concerning his characters than his dear Dad does. I place it at #2 on my list of Hill's books with 1st place occupied by NOS4A2.
I actually finished War and Peace. As with any long book there were boring bits but a lot of very interesting points of view. Battle scenes, after the battle scenes, contrasting scenes between the burning of Moscow and the peace in St.Petersburg. How war changed characters. But read Anna Karinina first. Much easier.
I saw Jeffrey Toobin on the PBS Newshour last night promoting his new book about Patty Hearst. I'm going to pick this up and wedge it into the TBR pile. I was a teenager when Patty was kidnapped and remember the almost daily news coverage of this story that went on for more than a year. For you young whippersnappers who think terrorism is something recent, this story highlights one of many homegrown terrorist groups we had operating in the US in the early 70s. Here is Toobin's PBS interview
When the victim becomes the criminal: a fresh look at the story of Patty Hearst | PBS NewsHour
When the victim becomes the criminal: a fresh look at the story of Patty Hearst | PBS NewsHour
If memory serves me right, I believe that when you started this book you just couldn't get into it. Or am I wrong? Maybe another board member?
I had the opposite experience. I loved it at first and then it lost steam for me. Still, in the end I give it a solid grade of B.
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