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Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury n
by purple-leafy 2mo ago
Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury near the other.
I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.
- squigz 2mo agoInterestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.
- purple-leafy 2mo agoMy friend, we exist at opposite ends of a spectrum ha
- squigz 2mo agoHonestly I'm just tired of the doom and gloom. I should probably keep in mind this was written in 1950.
- purple-leafy 2mo agoTry some Arthur C Clarke, less doom and gloom
- Mikhail_Edoshin 2mo agoAs "Forever and the Earth" shows it wasn't just stylistic, but essential.
- yyaakkqq 2mo agoEcclesiastes 1:1~11 (where that title is from) talks about futility, using only verses that are hopeful. (but that is lost on newer translations because the language was simplified. see legacy standard or Brenton's Septuagint for the effect)
- svat 2mo agoThis is such a surprising comment! Bradbury's style is very sparse and plain, and much closer to Hemingway's end of the spectrum than to the other. Where would you put, say, Nabokov, Melville, or Lovecraft?
- purple-leafy 2mo agoHaven’t read Nabokov, but Lovecraft is on the Bradbury end of the spectrum, but I love Lovecraft lol
- srean 2mo agoTo each his own, I suppose. I particularly like Bradbury's style. It reads very prose poetic. One of my favourite is Dandelion Wine, which you will probably hate.