Ray Bradbury and slightly above 450 degrees Celsius

Recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation - Raymond (Ray) Douglas Bradbury died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 after a long illness - how pity! Not his death but the reason of his death. It comes out that after his wife's death in 2003 he was left alone with 4 daughters.

When speaking about his start to writing the screenwriter of "Moby Dick" - Ray Bradbury always remembers the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury later said, I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. 

What a wonderfull reason, is not it? :)

The Incredibles production illustrator Lou Romano's illustration of R.Bradbury

Ray's story "Icarus Montgolfier Wright" was animated and nominated for Oscar in 1962

Also, he was one of the screenwriters of the cartoon "Little Nemo: Adventures to Slumberland" that was released in 1989 and was the first japanese anime publicly known in American Broadcasting Industry.

Fahrenheit 451 is the first book that I have read by Ray. I got it as a gift from a friend of mine at the result of the #Bookchallenge that was going on Facebook. If I read it before 1984 by G.Orwell, I would have enjoyed it much more, I am sure of it. As the theme of these two books is a dystopian society, 1984 impressed me more with the psycological clauses like loving someone you hate and do not even recognize your own hatred towards him. Anyway, the book telling the story of a fireman - Guy Montag whose main job is to start a fire and burn books can hardly be uninteresting. If you wanna know the reason of these fires, then go ahead with the book.

Note: The name of the novel "Fahrenheit 451" was chosen because supposedly at this temperature paper ignites. In fact, paper ignites spontaneously at temperatures slightly above 450 degrees Celsius. As acknowledged by Bradbury, the error was caused by the fact that in choosing the name he consulted with a specialist from the Fire Department, which has confused and temperature scales. p.s. lil bit funny :)) 

Watch the movie as well.