/lit/ - Literature

Among the worst books I've read so far.

Ray Bradbury's social critique is pretty similar to "old man yells at cloud"

>>13208569
>and it just made me feel numb and killed my sex drive. Looking for something that will do neither of those.
dont take any psychiatric meds then

this book is fucking garbage and its insulting that its always mentioned in conjunction with 1984 and BNW. i legitimately think the only reason its popular is bc schools needed something to convince kids not to burn books so they could keep selling them harry potter at scholastic fairs

Was Ray Bradbury disturbingly correct in his dystopia?

I know it's easy to correlate a connection between Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's BNW but having not read those books in a long time and recently coming across 451 i'm now of the opinion how much more accurate his assumption of human nature, technology and the fear of education is. It's a lot less subtle in its theme but for the time the connections are fairly accurate. Now is this just me connecting unrelated experiences with the characters or was his pretty fucking right?

>"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico
>...The bigger your market, Montag, the less you hande controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorties with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your type writers They did.
>Magazines becaome a nice blend of vanilla tapioca....
>But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex magazines, of course.
>...It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God!

Has self imposed media and literature censorship begun? Was Bradbury a prophet with this classic?

I see it with the removal of "Little House on the prairie" from awards given by ALA and Mark Twain's works becoming less circulated due to "problematic" content.

I don't want this, /lit/. I want our literature to continue to thrive, but I fear it is too late.