Man, if I could get tapioca and sex tonight, that’d make my life complete…
I think that’s the Canadian Dream.
Larry Mudd, you’re doing a great job of criticising the work as opposed to taking the easy route and reviewing it. Well done. Very well done.
Thanks for all the kind words, folks – although I must admit I’m a bit perplexed.
I thought that my observations were fairly straightforward and not particularly insightful. Usually, when I think I’m actually being clever, nobody seems to notice.
Nice. Now you are going to rub our noses in it? You are a bastard, Larry Mudd, a goddamn bastard.
For those curious about Bradbury’s political state of mind around the time* he was writing F451, see his angry open letter “To the Republican Party”, chastising it for McCarthyism, in an advertisement he paid for in Daily Variety, 10 November 1952, just after elections.
- It first appeared as a novella in Argosy magazine in 1951, and then as a longer novel in 1953.