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Posted by michael on September 11, 1999 at 22:23:59:
In Reply to: Yes. posted by John Galt on September 10, 1999 at 09:40:45:
: : I know you're thinking its a silly question. I really like him as a sci-fi writer. And I read everything he wrote, up untill 1985. But the ending is so lame. Here are all these people, who find books most precious, and when they get out from civilisation, they go back to memorizing books, just like in the times before man was really literate. If a book was to come to some sort of positive end, such as this book is portraying, then literacy would be the positive end, not a regression back into some kind of nostaliga of reciting books to one another. Going back to the speaking of books, as if man were living as a tribe, is a regression.
: : I think, if these people really liked books, then the protection of books, and getting children to read, not listen to the stories of elders, would have been on these people minds.
: Weren't they still subject to the searches though? I think that the government would have still searched them and taken what books they had or were writing.
: Also, I think I read somewhere that Bradbury also felt his ending was less positive than it should have been. He said that it was a product of his youth. He liked the ending in the movie (where the girl is saved by the Book People).
As for the books... They were all fugitives anyway, why not carry the book they were to memorize with them? They seemed to love the dam* things so much. *JK* Its as if he was trying to bring it all back to a kind of tribalism, where everyone sat around a fire and told stories to each other. Aw, well, its all fiction anyway. I think his best story is "The Velt".