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Dear Mr. Bradbury,
Even though you are no longer here, I wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday. You would have been 92 today and I think I speak for many when I say that you will always be with us. Your books and stories have left an impression on our entire culture, perhaps our entire era. I mean you won the National Medal of Arts Award in 2004!
I remember growing up and seeing one of your books in my dad's hands quite often. He was the person who introduced you to me. He loved your Sci-Fi stories and I loved your spooky ones. Remember when I first saw the movie version of The Halloween Tree? It was like I had entered a dream, it spoke to me and reinforced my love of Halloween. I hope to plant my own Halloween tree one day.
The book I remember the most is Homecoming, the one about the human boy in a family of vampires who are all coming home for a special event. I remember certain things about the story, but I mostly remember the way it made me feel. You are an icon Mr. Bradbury, a national treasure and even though you will no longer be writing, I am confident that your stories will be read for many generations.
Photo by Alan Light [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
4 comments:
I'm working my way through a book of his short stories and I'm totally loving it! I wish I had grown up reading him.
I obviously need to step up my Bradbury reading, think I'll start with The Halloween Tree since I am in a Autumn kind of mood already!
Oh I love him! Happy Belated birthday RB!
Excellent post! Ray Bradbury is one of those authors that transcends his genre. Still a little hard to get used to the fact that he's gone.
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