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Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury dead at 91 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-author-ray-bradbury-dead-20120606,0,3320611.story)

Brilliant and very human writer.

I'm pouring a 40 of dandelion wine out for him. (Also one of my favorite books/plays.)

Dang.   :sad:  He was my absolute favorite writer when I was a teenager.  91 is a damn good run, though.

Same with me, Sam.

I forgot to mention that I had the pleasure of meeting him once while a local college was doing a production of Dandelion Wine. He stayed afterwards for a little Q&A. Amazing man and incredibly gracious.

I really need to read more of his stuff. There is a sizeable chunk of good writers who came of age in the 50s and 60s that I seem to be mostly missing in my 'have read' ledger (Bradbury, Asimov, Vonnegut, Heinlein, to name a few). I have read something from all of them, but really need to dig more deeply into their catalogs.

Ack - he was also my favourite writer as a kid.  :cry:

His short stories and novels were equally awesome.

I think he may have been the first science fiction writer I ever read. Sad loss, but a good age to live to and a good legacy to leave behind.

Fahrenheit 451 was one of the very first books I read and will always hold a special place for me.  Great author, I hope he's resting well wherever he is.

I wonder if he's going for cremation.

I was rereading some of my favorite stories, including The Million Year Picnic and realized it's the same ending as BSG.

Sucks, but the guy had a pretty decent run.

I was never a great fan of his works to be honest; given him being a sci-fi author who pretty much hated sci-fi, and how much I hated having to read Dandelion Wine in high school (sorry Rubrik).

Man, this really bums me.  Bradbury is probably just about my most favorite author of all time.  Read all of his stuff when I was in Jr. High and High school, and thought it was all amazing.  He's what really got me into reading books in general.  A wonderful author and person in just about every way.

 :cry:

He told great stories, for sure. 

I never had the pleasure of meeting him.  I did hear one fairly recent interview with him on NPR I think, where he whined a lot about Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 being theft.  I can't make up my mind what I think about that, even politics aside - The title, and only the title, was definitely a riff off of Fahrenheit 451 (I think, I did read the book but I never saw Moore's movie) and done without his permission, but it did seem like a clever riff and I'm all for folks that take good ideas and use them creatively in completely unrelated ways.  And Moore certainly acknowledged Bradbury as having the original idea.  But Bradbury was SO bitter about it, and petty and ungracious in his whining, that I have to wonder what else was going on.  Maybe it was just old age or he really idolized GW or I dunno what, but it did kind of diminish him a little in my eyes anyway.

so it diminishes him up a lttle to you that a fat,no talent,no talent,sorry excuse for a human being comunist stole the name of his novel?....ok

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Great Post, 9 out of 10, would read again.