"This is Montag, Block 813!"
The last of the great four. Clark, Asimov, Heinlein and Bradbury. Thank you Ray.
Very sad. An icon of conservatism.
He was a unique talent.
What really makes me sad/sick is that not only have so few youth today ever read him, but they don’t even know how he was. Or care. Reading for pleasure, and I don’t mean a Facebook page, is almost dead. It’s dying with Gen X as so few Millenials seem to care for the idea of sitting down with a good book.
I feel sorry for them. There is no greater pleasure one can have fully clothed than a walk through a used book store and the very smell of all that ‘mind food’.