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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Saying that he would have no education at all if not for public libraries given how poor his family was and how frequently they moved and disrupted his schooling, and he felt obligated to give back no matter how much it cost him financially So there's that, at least
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I have frequently defended people's bad takes like this on autobiographical grounds saying it's often about the feeling more than any defensible ideology And Bradbury was a kid for whom public libraries were his refuge and escape through his whole crappy childhood
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