It's funny how I hate Ray Bradbury a whole lot more than I hate George Orwell and FAHRENHEIT 451 is probably one one of the most poorly-written books I've ever had to read but as a whole, it's been a lot less harmful to political discourse than 1984, a book I actually enjoyed
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Like what the fuck is 451 even about really? I don't know. I'm not even sure Bradbury knows. Supposedly it's about "book-burning" but like Bradbury has next to no actual literacy in groups whose voices typically get targeted by book-burning. He doesn't care about Helen Keller.
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Also like. The book is probably one of the most misogynist things I ever had to read. Women are materialistic wretches without any interiorities beyond what they want to watch on television and men are sensible bookish people trying to elevate the conversation. okay.
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Well, I mean, there's two women in the story, Mildred and Clarisse, and Mildred is a target to dunk on sure but Clarisse is the agent of Montag's awakening
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It's kind of unfortunate, given the roles they play in the story, that Clarisse is supposed to be a teenager (or at most college aged)
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The film version instead played with this by having Clarisse and Mildred by played by the same actor, which kind of makes it better but also makes it worse
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I mean Clarisse is literally his nerd boner honeypot iirc
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Bradbury's horniness for women younger than his wife is his least subtle and most embarrassing writing tic (and apparently had no impact on the fact that his wife was the only woman he was with for his entire life)
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The whole subtext of this classic Rachel Bloom video The joke being that this is the fantasy that has motivated his entire careerhttps://youtu.be/gONl3jXrzBE
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