FAVORITE RAY BRADBURY WORK

I really enjoyed the motion picture The Illustrated Man, the book from which it had been made orignally based on one of his short stories. Rod Steiger turned in one of his best performances, especially when he delivered the line "They're not tattoos, they're skin illustrations!"

My favorite book, though, remains The Martian Chronicles.

When i took a writing course, they sent copies of some of his work among examples of fine writing. I prefer his shorts to the novels.

Skeee=in Illeh STRAYSHUNS. (AS only Rod Steiger could deliver)

I read his collection of short grizzlies called "The October Country" when I was a kid also. I dont recall many of the stories , just that it scared the **** out of me.

One of the things which amazes me is the number of his works that i'm just now hearing about for the first time. Right now, CBC is playing a radio "dramatization" of one of his stories from the 1950s.

OK, the story is "The Zero Hour," and it was from 1950.

I have at least one radio dramatization of his work on cassette. I haven't listened to it in so long, I forgot the title and storyline. I know it is about an old woman, but -
I bet we could find some of his stuff on youtube.

This was pretty cool. Bradbury wrote the story in 1950, and CBC did the radio play in 1980, but they made it sound like a 1950 broadcast.

Here's the story in a 1955 broadcast:

JEEEEZUS CHRISTE!! Wheres the rest a the story?? IT stopped at 10 min ow I gotta search it out

Sorry, i didn't realize . . .

Yeh sure, easy for you to say. Now I gotta stay up past my bedtime and hunt the ending of this story.

He were good at what he did,werent he.

A film version . . .

Part I



Part II



Part III

aha!!. Now Ill get me a cuppa and a bowl of strawberries and watch.
Nobody bother me.

The only one of Bradbury's books I've read is Fahrenheit 451.
And that was a long time ago, so I'm a bit hazy on the details: a future society where it's against the law to own books. Books are dangerous! Full of ideas which might give the people who read them ideas!
Most books have been burnt or destroyed. The object is to remove them all forever.
If I recall correctly, a group of (book lover) subversives are committed to memorizing the entire contents of particular books ... for posterity.
A brave & extremely risky thing to do, with the police forever trying to track them down.
That's about all I can recall, but I do remember enjoying it immensely at the time.

It was made into a film.
(excuse the dorky dramatic music!)

The Martian Chronicles was the first book i read (maybe 10 or 11) and it holds a special place in my heart, after that i pretty much devoured anything he wrote, Bradbury is probably the reason i like my sci-fi as short stories over full length novels, his anthologies were a staple of my early reading life

SWTWC is probably my second favourite Bradbury work

The one that stuck out for me, was where there was a temperature that increased the murder rate, too hot and people were lethargic, not hot enough and they didn't get angry enough, but just right and people lost it.

I think it was about two 'angels' or some other type of supernatural creatures who were trying to save the life of a really disagreeable man on a hot day.