reading (Twice 22)
Oct. 1st, 2006 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorToday I finished Bradbury's "Twice 22." It's actually two books in one: The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine for Melancholy. The latter I must have read before because all of the stories were familiar. Of the former volume I'd only read a few of the stories no doubt in some other compilation. The stories date from 1948 to 1959, but aside from the occasional reference to the year 2000 being the far future they remain very readable.
"The Murderer" is uncanny in its prediction of today. The names of the devices are wrong, but the behaviors are dead on. It's a tribute to Bradbury's insight and understanding of psychology. "En La Noche" is five short pages which imply volumes that couldn't be spoken in 1952 and are too thoughtful for today.
39. Ray Bradbury "Twice 22"
"The Murderer" is uncanny in its prediction of today. The names of the devices are wrong, but the behaviors are dead on. It's a tribute to Bradbury's insight and understanding of psychology. "En La Noche" is five short pages which imply volumes that couldn't be spoken in 1952 and are too thoughtful for today.
39. Ray Bradbury "Twice 22"
