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Is Ray Bradbury too high school tier to discuss on /lit/? Is /lit/ just as elitist as it was when it started years ago?

>> No.3874771

Yes and yes

Also the movie sucked

>> No.3874960

I loved 451, even if I did read it in high school first.

>> No.3875602

>>3874753
This is elementary tier shit

>> No.3875628

>>3874771
Traffaut's?


I was planning on watching it tomorrow.

>> No.3875631

>>3874753
I couldn't get past the first page because of how god awful the writing. It as bad as my own and I write like shit

>> No.3875640

are you kidding?

high school lit is the only kind of lit that gets discussed on /lit/

well, high school lit and YA lit.

>> No.3875642

>>3874753
The prose was really awful, and the ideas presented aren't nearly as interesting as other dystopian novels.

>> No.3875655

>>3875642

My creative writing teacher in high school never added the -ly ending to words when he spoke. So he'd say "the ideas aren't presented as interesting as they are in other novels." (I know you didn't make that mistake.)

He had an English PhD (his dissertation was on magical realism) and he thought ebooks were the book lover's worst nightmare and reminded us every class that it was our deficient generation's fault that Borders was going out of business and told me that my short stories needed a conflict and rising action and falling action and also a conclusion.

>> No.3875658

>>3875655
Well, you know what they say - all human beings are worthless snakes who deserve to die.

>> No.3875704

I need a crash course on the best of high school /lit/ because i felt like i didnt get the best experience
Help me out?

>> No.3875706

>>3875704

you're on /lit/, browse lit

>>3875215

>> No.3875732

>>3875704
Crash course is very good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSYw502dJNY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOeEc9ME62zTfqc0h6Pe8vb

>> No.3875737

>>3874753
I literally just bought From The Dust Returned two days ago. Am looking to see if it's any good before I start it because I have different books I could read instead next.

>> No.3875781
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3875781

>>3875732
>Crash course is very good.

If you want shallow, revisionist, "safe" history that doesn't even bother to bring up controversy in controversial historical topics.

>> No.3875805

>>3875781
>implying I was talking about history section on a literature.
>being this /pol/tarded that you see a threat to your precious little worldview everywhere.
Seriously, keep your cancer contained to one board. If /pol/ were deleted then the entire site would drastically increase in quality.

>> No.3875806

>>3875631
are you serious, the writing is brilliant on the first page.

>> No.3875808

I enjoyed The Martian Chronicles.
[notarealspoiler]In high school.[/thiswontdoanything]

>>3875704
I didn't really either. We'd read a chapter or two of something and move on. The school's scores were low on writing while being high on everything else. Instead of thinking that maybe they should retool the curriculum, they had us write a paragraph in every class for a week.

>> No.3875813

It's been years but when I read The Martian Chronicles I fucking loved it.

>> No.3875828

I really didn't like it. The prose wasn't anything special and the concepts were half-baked and not as interesting as they could have been. When I got to the part about people memorizing books I laughed.

>> No.3875829

>>3874753
The book was pretty good, but I thought the whole message of the book was just masturbation for those who already agreed with the sentiment. I wasn't completely on board and I felt like the book made connections between trends that just didn't exist. Just the nightmare of someone old librarian who happens to write fairly well.

>> No.3875840

Part of first page.

IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies.
He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

The prose are up and down, sometimes normal like most books out there and then there are ups when Bradbury rights some beautiful passages.

>> No.3875940

>>3875805
actually, as we have seen before, when a containment board is deleted the quality of all other boards decreases as the ex-containees try to find a new place to stay.

>> No.3875960

> I read Tolstoy for a class in highschool
> the teacher loved his books and said it was her focus in university
> read war and peace for months on end
Ended up with an 80 in the class overall, for the last assignment I wrote a short poem about the book, my only assignment on it, it was like 4 lines long

>> No.3876018

>>3875960
How did you like it? I've just started reading it. The beginning wasn't very good, a prince and girl or princess talking with french as well.