Finally got around to actually reading this - it has been on my to read list since 2nd year at Durham (ie over a decade ... opps!). It is a book that is so often referenced that by a kind of osmosis you know it even before you read. This means that you have to pay an extra special kind of attention to it so you actual encounter the book itself and not an amalgam of hearsay about it.
It is a classic and it holds up under the weight of its own reputation, in many ways seeming to be speak more to us today than to the early fifties (which we now tend to paint as a golden age of civilization).
What would Bradbury make of us watching live streams of people sleeping in the Big Brother house and everywhere everyone in their personal ipod world tweeting vacumously to the planet?
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