Inside Opinion » tacoma reads together http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion What's on the minds of Tacoma News Tribune editorial writers Fri, 24 May 2013 00:45:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Ray Bradbury opened up worlds of imagination http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2012/06/07/ray-bradbury-opened-up-worlds-of-imagination/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2012/06/07/ray-bradbury-opened-up-worlds-of-imagination/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:34:01 +0000 TNT Editorial Board http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/?p=14250

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" was the 2003 book selection of the Tacoma Reads Together program. (Staff file photo)

This editorial will appear in Friday’s print edition.

Long before “The Hunger Games” portrayed a grim, dystopian future and ignited the imaginations of young readers, there was Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.”

It came out in 1953, but it’s as timely today as it was then with its glimpse into a future society in which people are so mesmerized by their big-screen TVs that they no longer read. They’re unconcerned when firemen show up to burn books, …

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