Just today, I read an article about the death of an iconic science fiction writer by the name of Ray Bradbury. I had only heard of Bradbury as the writer of the novel Farenheit 451, which I read in the eigth grade and discovered that it was one of my favorite novels, despite its convoluted plot. Bradbury lived to the ripe age of 91 and passed away on Tuesday night in Los Angeles. He passed away due to natural causes.
The news took me by shock a little because I had not known that Bradbury lived until the age of 91. The article then went on to describe Bradbury's best known accomplishments, which made me want to read a couple of his books when I get a chance to. What was interesting enough to find out in this article was that Bradbury had a common theme among all of his books: they were a revelation on the future he had imagined for this world. Bradbury had always scorned the idea of using heavy technology.
I chose to read this article because its topic had caught my attention. It was a fairly well-written article (slightly biased; however, because the author of the article seems to be a fan of Ray Bradbury) which provided interesting and less-well known facts about the famous writer. I did enjoy the article because it provided information that I had not already known.
Source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47706156/ns/today-books/
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