The reason why I don't like Farenheit 451, and I like and met, other Ray Bradbury works, is that it was the novel used to teach me literary mechanics. Inferences, references, symbolism, and foreshadowing ect.
I appreciate the lesson I learned, as I enjoy movies, tv, games, radio and novels so much more now. When we went on to discuss Anti-Heros, watching Darkman and One Who Flew Over the Coco Nest was much richer due to it.
I had to reread Farenheit 451 probably 20+ times over. I "lost" a lot of copies of the book. I've had at length discussion of it by paragraph. I detest it because, I am oversaturated with it.
I detest Island of the Blue Dolphin for a very similar reason. When I was younger, I used to move around a lot. During the grade that Island of the Blue Dolphin was required reading, the 7 or 8 schools I moved during that grade, I either left when it was about done, and enter a new school when they were just reading it, or stayed long enough to read it again. I didn't really like Island of the Blue Dolphin to begin with and having to do so 8 times over, just made me loath the novel. The same thing about California Mission model building projects. Fucking awful.
Favorite Video game? Thats for myself is to hard to answer. Starcraft, I guess? I've played that for almost half my life fairly regularly. So I suppose it wins with hour played
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Favorite Heinlein novel?
Favorite Clarke novel?
Favorite Niven works?
Favorite Alexander Dumass work?
Favorite Mark Twain Novel?
Mostly science fiction authors. XD I'm more well read then that, I just dig Sci fi books.