Comment by 🚀 stack
I though 451 was great. Read it first as a teen growing up in a totalitarian country, so your milage may vary.
2025-12-22 · 4 months ago
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💀 TheGnomeDome · Jan 27 at 13:56:
Not dissimilar to the way I really discovered Bradbury. There was a copy of The Golden Apples of the Sun at school when I was about 12 or 13 and I vaguely knew Bradbury from scifi anthologies.
I was not prepared for something so bittersweet and elegaic. Martian Chronicles is an all time great!
🥬 choy [OP] · Jan 31 at 23:47:
I've now found myself reading Something Wicked This Way Comes. Such an odd book, but very atmospheric. What an interesting mind that mad had.
I vaguely remember the movie being fun
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The Martian Chronicles — My old high school had a million locked doors and storage rooms. One day, my French teacher unlocked one such room to grab a couple spare dictionaries, and allowed us a quick peek inside. On one of the steel shelves, I found a book with a most curious cover, tan humanoids and a sprawling desert landscape, etched with cerulean waterways and dotted with strange termite-like towers. It captured me immediately. The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 collection of short stories by...