[knarf]

After reading F451, I knew that the theme was a war against knowledge and that the only sure way to preserve knowledge was for someone to memorize the information, whether amusement reading, or factual history .. because books were being destroyed, and once the books were gone, anyone could say anything and get away with it, because there was no way to disprove nor verify.

I wonder why the author opened this story with that, "the world got it wrong" crap.

Maybe he's part of the book burning club ??

[ansel12]

He is sure correct about Mel Gibson being the only one able to make Fahrenheit 451 correctly.

““Mel Gibson owns Fahrenheit 451,” he says. “The mistake they made with the first one was to cast Julie Christie as both the revolutionary and the bored wife.” One of his enduring beefs is that “screenwriters don’t know a god**** thing about writing — they didn’t grow up in a library, consuming words. When I grew up, I was educated. They are not.”

His dearest hope was that Gibson would reject what Bradbury called typical low-brow Hollywood studio decision-making, in which a shallow screenwriter who can’t handle the depth of his material is brought on to screw things up.””

[DManA]

I heard an interview with Bradbury’s grandson yesterday. He said Ray considered “Fahrenheit 451” his ONLY science fiction book. Everything else he considered fantasy.

Then today I heard a replay of a speech he made in 2000. He claimed that he remembered his birth ( maybe because he was a 10 month baby). He also remembered waking up in his crib after a nightmare about his birth.