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Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury near the other. I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.
Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.
There is a reference to global warming that is similar to the poem. That the world will heat up, and humanity will die, and the earth will continue on as it has for a million years. The film mentioned the “the earth will shake us off, like a summer cold”.
This seems fairly comparable to the soft rains poem in this piece.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.
My friend, we exist at opposite ends of a spectrum ha
https://wnyc.org/story/bradbury-centennial-with-neil-gaiman Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50
My one complaint: it's rarely revealed when a story was published, and it took me far, far, far too long to realise that many of my favourites were many decades old.
That said, hearing a story read and acted by a skilled player is its own joy. I'm a good reader, but I'm not that level of good, and a few decades of listening to Shorts has improved my own inner-reading voice.
Available as a podcast, though the back-catalogue is parlous brief, largely due to copyright, I suspect. Still worth following.
For most of my life it's felt like we've been moving away from this scenario, but lately it's felt like we're sliding back towards it
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DflgiMYRQP3UXtZ47NBus?si=XGR...
https://wnyc.org/story/bradbury-centennial-with-neil-gaiman Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50
OT: Selected Shorts is wonderful. My one complaint: it's rarely revealed when a story was published, and it took me far, far, far too long to realise that many of my favourites were many decades old. That said, hearing a story read and acted by a skilled player is its own joy. I'm a good reader, but I'm not that level of good, and a few decades of listening to Shorts has improved my own inner-reading voice. Available…
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