Mr. Bradbury wrote some very wierd shorts and very heart-melting poignantly compassionate material. His Dandalion Wine works. Hm. I've much respect for him. I'm esp. impressed by his praise of Rod Steiger as the Finest American actor. Very reassuring of my high opinion of Rod because I've found that man simply Amazing! In the Heat of the Night to Doctor Zhivago to On the Water Front to Al Capone to etc. Incredibly versatile motion picture artist! And I've no formal training to properly access cinema productions. On the Space exploration thing, he'd be badly disappointed on the progress made. I'm disappointed too. We should by now be colonizing the moon and using it as a jump off point to make trips back and forth to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and further further beyond and all that's been reached is some Goddamned ISS!?!? What the Friggin FUCK!?!? What happened??? Do we have to be so trapped in the rut of competing with each other on who can come up with the ultimate video game?!? Is that what Science is suppose to be at the summit of it?!?!
@@Gweidemann this man is tied to my heart we share a love of the ages expressed in words alone just this side of Byzantium ...this might seem crass but I love that video fuck me Ray Bradbury by Rachel bloom . I ve read all his work even as a young child knew he was taking me somewhere very familiar. Do I have a favorite ? Many but there will always be a special place for dandelion wine ...though my favorite may well be farenheit 451 for the end when the people become the books what book would you choose to be if the necessity arose?
@@stacylarge5636 , you didn't ask me, but I'll tell you my choice: "A Month in the Country," by J.L. Carr. It's not at all of the Bradbury ouevre, but it's a magnificent, immensely moving novel ( in part, about the invaluability of great art ), and if Bradbury read it, I'll bet he loved it.
@@bobtaylor170 thank you Bob you dont know me but I will concider it my mission to read this my bedside at any time is littered with books I am reading and cross referencing and salivating over and reading to others without any provocation or at times appreciation but it is fun for me to share things I know they need but wont do for themself anyway I do appreciate you ❤❤❤
i am more diverse in my reading and recommendations than Ray, but I wrote for pleasure and to take brain dumps from 1957 to this present 2020, which is my 78th year.
I was born in 1968 i couldn't tell you how much he's meant to me when he wrote of holding the chain link fence watching the rockets launch he took me with him if only he had lived long enough to see Elon Musk and SpaceX land those rockets but perhaps he was the inspiration after all he wrote of it and must have seen it in his minds eye...i am the real Clarisse McClelland
Like his works and his ideas, but in some cases his short-sightedness is obvious, however he cannot be blamed it seems like he really believed in peacemakers/enemies and Moon travel... but to praise a bomb it's really weird provided that the ones who launch the war create the weapons. Bradbury must haven't known of this game, he was such a romantic trusting the governmental bs.
I agree about the names in Tolstoy novels. Why not just change the names to English names if it is in English. All the other words are in English. The same goes for Dostoyevsky.
Perdon, punto para la chica, Bradbury no se la esta tomando enserio. No quiero pensar mal de el pero me huele un poco a MansPleaning, que decirle. La chica le expuso buenos argumentos.
@@lucasm7781 Quizás al inicio cuando ella le relataba su preguntacon esa típica perspicacia universitaria , pero luego tomó más enserio a esa pregunta que a las demás que le siguieron y precedieron, por lo que vió la oportunidad de regalarnos en pocos minutos, una enseñanza que a mi parecer fué más valiosa que lo que trató en su discurso.
Pues al principio si le contesta con algo de desdén, pero la neta es que se nota que es por lo absurdo que le resulta la idea de "esperar a solucionar los problemas del mundo para después poder avanzar", además de que luego le da una respuesta que a mí parecer fue excepcional; y pues buenos argumentos, no se que tan buenos, porque al final del día la situación que plantea la chica no es como que haya cambiado en la actualidad, no es como que haya sido mejor en el paso y no es como que vaya a cambiar, y dios luego luego se nota que la forma en la que contesta su pregunta es la misma con la que contesta las demás, porque es su estilo
+youtubed I read Bradbury described himself as a "delicatessen religionist," picking his favorite bits from many different religions. So I'm guessing not exactly a Bible thumper, but not an atheist either.
+youtubed Hmm, I'm not sure. Maybe. Bradbury is kind of hard to figure out at times. I think his religion was imagination more than anything else. And despite being a cranky old dude, as a lot of writers are, I do find his words inspiring. Well, the non-profane ones. Haha.
