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Summary: Bradbury's Stories are like Assassin's Bullets
Review: Ray Bradbury's stories are like being shot. It hits you in the heart. This book is definetly one of the greatest works of all time. The prose is beautiful. It has a definite sense of wonder. It explores the depths of the human soul.
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Summary: It reads like a comic book for all ages
Review: If only mars could be as close to us as it is in Bradbury's mind. This is a very well thought out comic book novel for all ages. Though there are no illustrations, the ones that Bradbury writes out for you to develop in your mind are far more real than any drawing that can be added in the book.
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Summary: Beautiful, but incredibly dark...
Review: I absolutely loved the Martian Chronicles the first time I read it, perhaps five years ago. Now that I just finished re-reading it, I'm overwhelmed by all the details, and by the incredible irony of a destroyed alien civilization. From the first page to the last, this book captures me. Hunamity is so incredibly destructive, that even the world itself is destoyed. And humanity is so incredibly stupid, it doesn't see what's coming. Irony abounds, from chapters to the whole book. Humans come to Mars, and are killed by Martians. As a result of their contact, the entire martian civilzation is destroyed by the chicken pox. Of all possible ways to die. The humans who come over, for the most part, have little regard for the ancient cities. The settlers wanted to get away from sifling Earth, but wind up destoying the last few traces of Martian civilization. If you like your view of humanity to always be rosy, forget this book. You'll hate it. But if you're willing to get a glimpse into the possible future, don't pass this book up.
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Summary: Bradbury's best book
Review: I really do feel that this is Ray's best science fiction work ever. These are all different stories about man living on Mars but it has smooth continunity in all the stories. From the doomed first expedition to Mars to the last chapter where a human family prepares to start their new life in one of the Martian cities, each story keeps the reader interested in what happens next. I also like the fact that Ray maintains the large mystery surrounding the Martians. They who survived the onslaught of earthly diseases, remain in the background but never far from the minds of the colonists. Will they befriend the human colonists to their planet? I'm not sure, but from the few appearances they make with the colonists in the stories, I think the answer is Yes.
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Summary: Slow
Review: Every time my opinion of humanity is raised I read these reviews to lower it back down. Martian Cronicals are a series of short stories tied together only in their location, Mars. There is no other plot point. This however adds strength to the book, the examples of humanity andd its ironys are more clearly shone and in great veriety. For the poeple who complane for some reasone or another about being predictable or long winded, I would suggest reading something more your speed, Goosebumps or The Hardy Boys for example and leave serious books to those who earn more then minimum wage.
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Summary: a confusing but interesting novel
Review: I like the way that the book is set up with its suspense level. It keeps you wondering what is going to happen to the earth travlers next. The story is strange, but a good strange. The description in the book is really good. It is so good that you sometimes feel like you are actually there.It also helps you create really good pictures in your head. I dislike the fact that the book takes so long. It takes too long to describe such small things. the book also doesn't flow. Things don't fall together. Some of the things in the book just jump in and then they jump out.It wasn't put together very well. I would recomend this book to people who like strange and out of the ordinary books. However, I wouldn't recomend this book to people that don't like reading about space travel to Mars and life on Mars.
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Summary: reviews as school project
Review: The Martian Chronicles remains one of the great classics of imaginative fiction. Its strong poetic undertones and imagery tramscend the genre. I find it unfortunate that reviews from some schoolchildren in Ohio have reduced this excellent work's overall rating.
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Summary: A fairy tail that perfectly depicts the human gender
Review: Nothing I can possibly say will reflect the beauty of this book. Here is a piece of literature that disguises it's grandeur in the simplicity of innocent construction, yet holds in it`s interior the answers to some of humankind's deepest and most trascendent questions. Bradbury has the poetry of endless summer nights, yet the conviction and straightforwardness of an historian. He builds civilizations from his mind and heart only for us to destroy, yet he gives us the hope of human irresponsability and ignorance to justify our behaviour. This is the kind of literature that you want to remember your grandfather by: quiet winter nights, reading by the fireplace, giving life to those wonderful golden eyed beings from a not so distant nor strange world in your mind... This is the kind of masterpiece that you keep in your treasure chest, between your most precious belongings. I re-read it every year, and everytime I learn something new of what we are from it. Mr. Bradbury has shared his most precious fantasies with us, his innermost world of poetry, fantasy, science fiction... and truth as well. Please read it with your favorite soft music playing!!
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Summary: I'm not a big fan of sci fi!
Review: I for one am not a big fan of sci fi books,novels or movies. I do however think this book was done very well.Its hard to write a book w/lots of bridges and different stories.It takes a good writer to make it make sense.Bradbury does a very nice job of putting the stories together and making sense. This book is very good for someone w/a good creative immagination.It had very creative inventions in it, such as the metal books and the flamming birds.Not one particular story stuck out at me.Maybe if I had a bigger interest in sci fi I might have enjoyed it more,and or thought about the book deeper.
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Summary: Great Book for all ages
Review: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Martia Chronicles is a series of short stories or chronicles, about the way life would be if we lived on Mars and what happened to those that tried too. It also puts us in a Martian's perspective, and looks at the way it would be for them. Bradbury has wonderful extrapulations and a vivid imagination, that kept you wanting more. The book was very intersting due to the fact that he described everything so well. The book made you feel as if you were living in that time period, with the martians. My favorite chronical, would have to be "there will come soft rains" because I liked the depth it had and the hidden meaning to it. In conclusion, I thought the book was good, it held my intrest and thats hard to do. I would recomend it to someone else.
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