A poster for the 1966 film version of Bradbury's novel I miss Ray Bradbury. Even having lived for 91 years and authored over three hundred short stories, it seems still too short a time to have graced our society with his presence, still too few works for someone of his talent. I don't remember exactly when I first read Fahrenheit 451 , sometime in junior high, followed quickly by the haunting stories in The Martian Chronicles , but I know that like many of the classics I read in 7th and 8th grade I didn't understand it nearly as well as I should have. Fahrenheit 451 strikes me much more now than it did then, perhaps because we are much closer to Bradbury's dystopian future than when I first read it. I recently finished re-reading the book in advance of a book discussion at the library this week, and it is remarkable how prescient Bradbury was, writing in the early fifties during a time of increased paranoia about the advance of communism and censorship of oppos...
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