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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Quotes on Books-8: Ray Bradbury

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories - Ray Bradbury


Biographical sketch of Ray Bradbury, the master science-fiction writer from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury


About The Stories of Ray Bradbury from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stories_of_Ray_Bradbury


Ray Bradbury Obituary from The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/06/ray-bradbury


"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury:
http://www.lasalle.edu/~didio/courses/hon462/hon462_assets/sound_of_thunder.htm


"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury:
http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/files/pedestrian-by-bradbury-1.pdf


About Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451 from Wikipedia:
(The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them!)(A dystopia is the idea of a society, generally of a speculative future, characterized by negative, anti-utopian elements, varying from environmental to political and social issues.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451


About "DYSTOPIA" from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia


Grateful thanks to The Guardian, www.laselle.edu, mikejmoran.typepad.com and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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