Ray Bradbury & Hugh Hefner on the origins of Fahrenheit 451

Iconic author Ray Bradbury and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner talk with LATimes.com blogger Geoff Boucher (Hero Complex) about how TV and radio inspired Fahrenheit 451, the connection between the novel and Playboy magazine and why Bradbury thinks of himself as a "pomegranate."

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[Red Riggins]

Thanks for sharing? Alphajuice, You sound like a book burner. Go drink some alpha juice, maybe you will get smarter

[joseph4th]

I can't see how Mr. Hefner can say that young people are growing up with less of sense of yesterday due to reading on the internet seeing as how my sense of yesterday about this very event was given to me right now by the internet.

On a related note, my first exposure to Fahrenheit 451 was it's adventure game version on my c64 in the 80's when I was a kid. It was that game that got me to eventually read the book.

[chocoholicSISTA263]

ive learnt loads from the internet..im currently reading 2 books but i also gained knowledge about one of the books through speaking to someone online soo internet has great sources and shitty ones.. You just got to find it.Hugh came from an older generation that relied more on books than internet for information so that's probably why he said that because he didn't grow up surfing google, youtube and other sources.

[nerdyharry]

cool. with no change in quality? or...

[Maurice Chandelier]

Yes, unfortunately several. But, Ray continued to write everyday.

[Maurice Chandelier]

God Bless Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012, RIP

[nerdyharry]

did ray bradbury have a stroke?

[AlphaJace]

@cKronic bro you must be kidding me. Look it up. Playboy is considered softcore pornography. Why, be because it's made for sexual entertainment for men. If playboy wasn't used for such then the business wouldn't be still here today. I can tell that you are a fan, and I can guess what you use it for.

[cKRONIC]

Pornography-obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit. playboy (if you have ever picked up a copy) is far from true porn its insane. playboy is the Mercedes of adult magazines. the head-honcho. understand? its done with taste and plenty of stars have graced its covers. Farrah Fawcett, Anna Nicole smith, Jenny McCarthy and MONROE just to name a few were on playboy. don't be so bitter just because your not a fan.

[AlphaJace]

God bless you