Reply #18: and don't forget

[iverglas]

Fahrenheit 9/11 451 itself. Speaking of books. ;)

Good flick, too:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000087F6L/103-5133042-2951012?v=glance

Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty.

(Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn, of course.)

Don't be put off by Bradbury's displeasure with Michael Moore.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/21/bradbury.fahrenheit.ap/
I don't know what Bradbury was like before he got to be 84, but Orwell got a little weird in his latter years too.

http://www.deadbrain.com/entertainment/article_2004_06_24_1030.php