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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I'd read the book first in Russian translation and then in original edition. I found it Bradbury's best short story collection and I remember not very many books worth reading half a century after their firs publication.
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Summary: Once you start reading this book, you won't put it down
Review: This book was great. I liked it because it was so detailed. The book is so detailed that it makes it feel like you are in the place that is being described. This book combines horror, suspense, and comedy into one book. You have to read it, to believe it.
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Summary: One of the best science fiction books, bar none
Review: Brilliant! Bradbury writes stories which live in my imagination for months afterwards, and this is no exception. I particularly like the story with the astronauts drifting out in space....
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Summary: A collection of pointed storys.
Review: I have found over the years that Bradbury is a better novel writer than a short story writer. He seems to need several hundred pages to really work out a story, rather than a few dozen.
If you have exhausted your list of all the Bradbury novels, then it is time to start reading his short story collections such as this one.
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Summary: The Illustrated Man
Review: This book is another stunning masterpiece from one of America's
greatest living writers. Even the background story of The Illustrated
Man is spellbinding. The stories herein contained are some of
the best works of this. The masterful writing contained within
the stories - The Veldt, The Exiles, Marionettes, Inc. are only
a few of the wonderful works... Bradbury weaves a tapestry
of wonder and fantasy, delving deep into the inner minds of people. Some of the stories are warnings, some foreshadowings...
This is a wondeful book.
Also, I would like to make a revision to my previous review
of "The Martian Chronicles"-the rating should be 10 rather
than 9.
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Summary: An amazing collection of stories that is a timeless classic.
Review: Ray Bradbury vividly describes worlds where the inhabitants try to live and explain their own lives. He graphically portrays the nature of humans in their environment, and examines the future of the world
Rating:
Summary: The Illustated Man
Review: I would NOT at all reccomend this book. Its very hard to follow-for people of all ages!! The main point is-DONT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!! ITS A WASTE OF YOUR MONEY AND TIME!!!!
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Summary: Beautiful collection of Sci Fi short stories.
Review: Perfect to read right before sleep. Or at an Airport, waiting for your flight. I picked up this edition up at my schools store. It was two weeks later that I finally had the opportunity to read into the prologue. I didn't have much time, but found the reading easy, and loveable. I quickly devored the first short story. That of a holodeck dream room, which aloof children close themselves away in secret from their parents. I must tell you of my day afterwards. I was in class, during an important lecture. I must confess that the story played around in my mind, the descriptions had brought on images;clear and meaningful. After finishing my laborous day, I quickly fell into the pocket sized book, found my dog-eared page and read another short story. And another. Every story left me fascinated, In fact, I finished the book before the night. I remember looking online for all of Ray Bradbury's works. I had fallen in deep interests with the man. He had, in a short interval of roughly twenty pages apeice, puzzled together a fabulous, demensional exhistance of fiction that I had enjoyed, and would continue to enjoy. I've read this book over and over again. I've read it in semenar, I've recommended it to everyone I know. I hope you find this book.-jeff
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Summary: For Armchair Explorers
Review: Bradbury reigns as the quintessential craftsman of sci fi literature in the 50's. This anthology represents stories which were published in several periodicals, mostly set in the distant future. The locale ranges from Earth to Mars and Venus, or just anywhere out in space. We witness Invasions from both points of view: Earth being invaded and Earth men as the invaders. He presents different ways Earth men use the planets, as well as the concept of Christianity in alien worlds. Some tales deal with time travel and a few would make wonderful "Twilight Zone" episodes.
The introductory tale, which provides the name for the anthology as a whole, is grimly completed in a brief Epilogue. A traveler in what might be a Depression era encounters a strange man along the dusty road and offers to share his supper with him. He winds up spending the night in the open with this weirdly decorated man, who admits that he is shunned even by carnivals-where freaks are usually welcomed. His entire body is covered with colorful and bizarre tattoos--which he has spent a lifetime trying to remove. What is the curse of these odd illustrations, which cause normal men to send him away or rush off screaming in horror?
This is Vintage Bradbury, who inspired a generation of sci fi writers. His fantastic imagination and knowledge of human behavior combine to produce entertaining trips to realms of fantasy and science fiction. After the odd sightings and rumors regarding Roswell in the late 1940's, America was poised on the frontier of space exploration. Thus Bradbury's anthology and an armchair provided readers with their own rocket ship to the skies. Although these tales precede the term "Astronaut," this author will effortlessly launch you into astral realms of fancy and the inner sanctum of the human soul. Fortunately the innate qualities that make us Human are still present even in the 22nd century.
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Summary: "Skin illustrations, the sign of an artist"
Review:
"Eighteen illustrations, eighteen tales." "The illustrations came to life..."
A man is encountered who has skin Illustrations all over his body. Each illustration represents a tale from the future. The illustrations come to life and tell a tale of doom or impending doom. In this way ray Bradbury can tell related but different tales in this book. Its Bradbury's writing style and dialogue that holds you as much as the storyline.
At first they are intriguing and fresh. Later they don't as much repeat but are similar in form and function.
One of the best "The Veldt" is first. Of course everyone will have a different favorite.
I suggest that you make your cats leave the room if you read out loud.
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