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The October Country by Ray Bradbury
bookshelves: shortstory-shortstories-novellas, boo-scary, fantasy, autumn-2012
Read from October 17 to 19, 2012
Withdrawn from Multnomah County Library (and just where is that, she wonders rhetorically)
Frontspiece: Fifteen of the stories included in this collection were written before my twenty-sixth birthday and published in August Derleth's Arkham House edition of my first book DARK CARNIVAL.
What I really enjoy about Bradbury, aside from the exquisite prose, is the size of his heart. In a modern world full of deceit and backstabbing, dissimulation and partisanship, it is possible that we are already living in an emotionally dystopian society; read yourself some Bradbury and feel the warmth of the man and you could do no better than Dandelion Wine. Anyway included here:
The Dwarf
The Next in Line
The Watchful Poker Chip of H Matisse
Skeleton
The Jar
The Lake
The Emissary
Touched with Fire
The Small Assassin
The Crowd
Jack-in-the-Box
The Scythe
Uncle Ednar
The Wind
The Man Upstairs
There was an Old Woman
The Cistern
Homecoming
The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
Some fun tales in this collection although I do prefer his later full stories.
UPDATE: Just noticed that Fahrenheit 451 is frequently challenged:
Like the opposition to "1984", the opposition to "Fahrenheit 451" seems to grow as the depicted society grows too similar to our own. One of these uncomfortable parallels is today's increased use of entertainment in place of learning and culture. Ray Bradbury has stated that this dumbing down was one of the concerns he was trying to raise.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Fahr...
Bradbury reads:
3* Fahrenheit 451
3.5 The Martian Chronicles
4* Something Wicked This Way Comes
5* The Illustrated Man
5* Dandelion Wine
4* The Golden Apples of the Sun
3* The October Country
October reads:
2* October Richard B Wright
3.5* October Skies
3* October Country
Hallowe'en reads:
3.5* October Skies
3* Dark Echo
3* October Country
Frontspiece: Fifteen of the stories included in this collection were written before my twenty-sixth birthday and published in August Derleth's Arkham House edition of my first book DARK CARNIVAL.
What I really enjoy about Bradbury, aside from the exquisite prose, is the size of his heart. In a modern world full of deceit and backstabbing, dissimulation and partisanship, it is possible that we are already living in an emotionally dystopian society; read yourself some Bradbury and feel the warmth of the man and you could do no better than Dandelion Wine. Anyway included here:
The Dwarf
The Next in Line
The Watchful Poker Chip of H Matisse
Skeleton
The Jar
The Lake
The Emissary
Touched with Fire
The Small Assassin
The Crowd
Jack-in-the-Box
The Scythe
Uncle Ednar
The Wind
The Man Upstairs
There was an Old Woman
The Cistern
Homecoming
The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
Some fun tales in this collection although I do prefer his later full stories.
UPDATE: Just noticed that Fahrenheit 451 is frequently challenged:
Like the opposition to "1984", the opposition to "Fahrenheit 451" seems to grow as the depicted society grows too similar to our own. One of these uncomfortable parallels is today's increased use of entertainment in place of learning and culture. Ray Bradbury has stated that this dumbing down was one of the concerns he was trying to raise.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Fahr...
Bradbury reads:
3* Fahrenheit 451
3.5 The Martian Chronicles
4* Something Wicked This Way Comes
5* The Illustrated Man
5* Dandelion Wine
4* The Golden Apples of the Sun
3* The October Country
October reads:
2* October Richard B Wright
3.5* October Skies
3* October Country
Hallowe'en reads:
3.5* October Skies
3* Dark Echo
3* October Country
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