Orson Scott Card: Thoughts on Ray Bradbury

National Review Online ^ | June 7, 2012 | Orson Scott Card

[TChad]

Eloquent high praise.

It has been too long since I read an Orson Scott Card novel.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It has been too long since I read an Orson Scott Card novel.

It's been too long since I read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Bradbury. Cracked open my old copy and read it last night after hearing about his death. Among many other things, a haunting meditation on middle age and yearning for lost youth - not an aspect of the story I appreciated as much the last time I read the book in college.

[Carry_Okie]

One of his better pieces.

Thank you.

[sayuncledave]

A good author’s well-written eulogy for another gifted author. We’ve been lucky to have the both of them. Mr. Bradbury’s wonderful books colored my youth, along with Asimov and Herbert, Heinlein and others. Mr. Card, too, since first reading Ender’s Game. Thank you for posting this.

[Billthedrill]

A BTT.

[GreyMountainReagan]

“Dandelion Wine.”

Summer on a pedestal.

[Musketeer]

"Enders Game", I will never forget this story from Orson. This fantastic novel could be made into a great movie.

[RobbyS]

Thank you.

[Kartographer]

"It has been too long since I read an Orson Scott Card novel. "

His short story 'West' should be read by all preppers.

[strider44]

They are making the movie. Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley two of the bug stars. Coming out in November 2013

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[bigheadfred]

Two good authors. Always.

[xkaydet65]

If anyone doubts Bradbury’s brilliance with making ordinary language into lyrical brilliance, all they need do is read There Will Come Soft Rains. It impacted my students over the years, tough kids from western Queens who knew little or nothing of Sci Fi, but Bradbury transcended the genre and reached the soul.

[Erasmus]

His short story 'West' should be read by all preppers.

Along with Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

bookmark

[sharpee]

I wish it could be made into a movie. But it will never happen. Orson has tried to get a movie deal but the deals always included making Ender older and adding a girlfriend. Obviously the studios did not understand the book. Worse the book does not convert from book to movie. Think about it. Where does the movie really take place? It is not at the school it is all in Ender’s mind. Get the anniversary audio addition. It is done really well and has an interview with Orson that is really interesting on Ender’s game and Speaker for the Dead. The book is also on the readers list for Marine officer candidate school.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I had Ray Bradbury’s permission to use cadenced language,***

Permission? Even Ernest Hemingway used cadence language, Just read FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and you will notice certain cadences in parts of it.

I read Bradbury’s work years ago. Loved it.

[rockrr]

I was one of those captured and entranced by Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains. Reading his stories was always like eating a fine dessert.

[Ciexyz]

I read some of Orson's Stars Wars novels, back in the beginning of the franchise.