Ray Bradbury Should Be Thanking Moore Instead Of Being PO'd

[Khephra]

"Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah remains on 8 lists this week; Karen Joy Fowler remains on 6 lists. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is up to #46 on USA Today combined list. "

http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Monitor/Bestsellers0705.html

There's no other reason for F451 to be going up the charts other than from the publicity that Bradbury has received from Moore's film.

[Spinzonner]

1. Ray is a bit idiosyncratic

so I dont think he's going to be swayed by sales and piggybacked success at this point in his career.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. More Hypocrisy from Bradbury

It looks like various DUers previously pointed out that Bradbury took titles from Shakespeare ("Something Wicked This Way Comes") and Whitman ("I Sing the Body Electric"); the British Private Eye magazione this week points out he's also used Dickens ("A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities") and Orwell, with a translation of Proust ("Beyond 1984: A Remembrance of Things Future").