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Dani ([info]hypno_jango) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2006-12-02 13:20:00
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Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, criticizes the burnings of Harry Potter books in a Forbes article.

"He [Taylor] doesn't know what witchcraft is," says Bradbury. "It's about wits. There's nothing wrong with the Potter books, because they're not promoting witchcraft. They're promoting being wise."

Regarding Taylor himself, Bradbury is succinct: "He sounds like a stupid man. He just shoots off his mouth, and he should just go somewhere, sit down and shut up."

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[info]antimatterspork
2006-12-02 09:34 pm UTC (link)
Some people should be forced to carry around signs saying "Warning! When talking to me, please be simple and obvious, as I am very good at missing the point."

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[info]smo
2006-12-02 09:36 pm UTC (link)
ILU, Ray Bradbury! And I love your books, too!

The younger Turner, Tommy, says that while he hadn't read the book, the cover alone showed him it promoted wizardry.

*facepalm*

As to why Taylor chose J.K. Rowling's books instead of something more sinister, the reason is clear: publicity.

Wow, I think that's the most honest thing that guy said in the entire interview.

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[info]ealusaid
2006-12-02 09:52 pm UTC (link)
Oh Bradbury, you fox. <3

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[info]hallidae
2006-12-02 10:22 pm UTC (link)
::waves the Bradbury fangirl flags::

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[info]moonjaguar
2006-12-02 10:27 pm UTC (link)
Dear Mr. Bradbury,

This FTW's for you!

Love,
Your fellow Chicagoan who loves your books.

--

The Reverends Taylor should be given a free church but it has to be like the nursery in one of those smart houses. They can burn those nasty satanic New American Bibles and Harry Potter books to their hearts' content. Built into the church's programming will be a bug-- every three days it will turn into The Veldt... them lions are hungry. They'll write on your tombstone, "I thank you for dinner. This game that we animals play is the winner."

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[info]tangentialone
2006-12-02 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I remember that one. :) Muahahahahah.

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[info]moonjaguar
2006-12-03 04:16 am UTC (link)
I'd love to have one of those rooms, that'd rock so hard. A holodeck for the home!

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(no subject) - [info]tangentialone, 2006-12-03 04:26 am UTC

[info]bitch_ass_hoe
2006-12-02 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Bungle in the jungle? Well, that's all right by me.

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[info]seiberwing
2006-12-03 02:19 am UTC (link)
*loved that story, creepiness and all*

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[info]moonjaguar
2006-12-03 04:13 am UTC (link)
I thought it was extra creepy that the kids' names were Peter and Wendy.

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[info]entrenous88
2006-12-02 10:46 pm UTC (link)
*hearts Ray Bradbury*

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[info]kalicephirot
2006-12-02 11:11 pm UTC (link)
*TEENYBOOPER SQUEAL* RAY BRADBURY *_* YES. *fangirls him some more*

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dracothelizard
2006-12-02 11:41 pm UTC (link)
I wouldn't mind book burnings so much if they'd burn crap books like Pamela by Samuel Richardson. *still bitter about that after three years*

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[info]redcoast
2006-12-03 12:03 am UTC (link)
You're angry over the first novel ever written? What?

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[info]missm
2006-12-03 04:47 am UTC (link)
I graduated over 20 years ago, and I'm still bitter. We can be bitter together.

I'd suggest that they throw Rousseau's "La Nouvelle Heloise" on the pile, but that one goes past awful and on to self-parody. I remember reading some of it aloud in French class, and we were laughing so hard we were crying. Even the poor professor was choking as she kept saying, "We shouldn't be doing this. This is a classic of my country's literature." And then she'd fall into a fit of giggles.

Did you ever read the early book by Jane Austen where she describes characters as "fainting alternately on a sofa?" I think Rousseau must have been one of her inspirations.

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(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-12-03 02:34 pm UTC

[info]singe
2006-12-03 12:44 am UTC (link)
he should just go somewhere, sit down and shut up.

Shut the fuck up is more than implied here. I love you, Ray!

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[info]hallidae
2006-12-03 01:06 am UTC (link)
Given how much he swears in interviews on occasion, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he'd actually said 'shut the fuck up'. Lessthanthree!

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2006-12-03 02:39 am UTC

[info]camilla
2006-12-03 12:50 am UTC (link)
In a tragicomic note, the Philippine Daily Inquirer pointed out that due to the high cost of the book, protesters likely only burned three copies of it, adding photocopies to make the pyre higher. In Ceccano, Italy, only one copy of the book was burned, even as protesters hurled tomatoes at the burners.

Oh fundies, never change!

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[info]verpon
2006-12-03 01:33 am UTC (link)
Philippine Daily Inquirer pointed out that due to the high cost of the book, protesters likely only burned three copies of it, adding photocopies to make the pyre higher.

It would be superbly poetic justice if protesters were sued by the publishers for infringing copyright.

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[info]skewed_tartan
2006-12-03 03:20 am UTC (link)
I LOL'ed. I mean is it a virtue or not if you're thrifty even with your vigilante justice?

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[info]keleri
2006-12-03 12:53 am UTC (link)
Oh Mr. Bradbury, let's run away together. *.*

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verthandi
2006-12-03 02:15 am UTC (link)
I less than three Bradbury so so much.

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[info]fernwithy
2006-12-03 05:20 am UTC (link)
Ah, Bradbury... LOVE. Mega-love.

How I loathe book-burners. Why do something that makes you look that way? As to the message getting out, dude? Yup, it is. Loud and clear. It just keeps repeating, "Morons... morons... morons..."

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[info]wrongly_amused
2006-12-03 08:12 am UTC (link)
I knew there was a reason I loved that guy's work. :-D

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[info]sgtgeorgecarter
2006-12-04 01:24 am UTC (link)
Bradbury for the WIN!

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