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A review by grumpwizard
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury
4.0
For anyone who loved reading Fahrenheit 451 multiple times over the years, this comes strongly recommended. It is a priceless glimpse into the hands and mind of creation.
Through these stories, all of which are engaging and pleasant on their own, we see as Bradbury begins to circle like a shark, coming in for the kill, about the main topics and themes, emotions and figures, of his great story. As you make your way through them you can tell the direction that he is going until finally, with "After Midnight," he makes the plunge and Montag is given a name.
The final two stories, (before the amazing 'bonus' stories) novellas in all forms of the word, are Bradbury's first attempts at 451. We can see the major scenes and vision come together as he is writing. It's pretty amazing. You can watch as his mind spills them onto the page and then you see, in the following incarnations, his attempt to sow the earlier parts of the story with these major things so it is not so obviously a spontaneous explosion of idea.
I would suggest this collection not only to fans of 451, but as well to anyone intrigued with the base components of creation - to watch as a master step-by-step comes to know what will, when finished, be a masterpiece of modern literature.
I am a better person for having read it.
Through these stories, all of which are engaging and pleasant on their own, we see as Bradbury begins to circle like a shark, coming in for the kill, about the main topics and themes, emotions and figures, of his great story. As you make your way through them you can tell the direction that he is going until finally, with "After Midnight," he makes the plunge and Montag is given a name.
The final two stories, (before the amazing 'bonus' stories) novellas in all forms of the word, are Bradbury's first attempts at 451. We can see the major scenes and vision come together as he is writing. It's pretty amazing. You can watch as his mind spills them onto the page and then you see, in the following incarnations, his attempt to sow the earlier parts of the story with these major things so it is not so obviously a spontaneous explosion of idea.
I would suggest this collection not only to fans of 451, but as well to anyone intrigued with the base components of creation - to watch as a master step-by-step comes to know what will, when finished, be a masterpiece of modern literature.
I am a better person for having read it.