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Summary: Martian Cronicles is older book with many newer age ideas.
Review: I thought Martian Cronicles was a more basic book with many extreme ideas for its time.. Space exploration was an unknown. He had revolutionary thoughts of what the future to bring. I was surprized how well the the short stories, all being written at different times.had flowed together. Bradbury must have had a great idea of where he wanted to end up. I think the my overall opinion is that anyone who likes Sci-fi books should pick up this classic set of shortstories and give them a try......
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Summary: Human Traits Fiction or Not
Review: In the book Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury looks at human traits and brings to life just how bad or sometimes good we can be. The book is a sci-fi book and it is very realistic with how we act, but maybe not with how somethings happen. For instance in the story Way up in the air a large group of African americans go to Mars. This angers all the white people back home and human prejudice is really shown through. I enjoyed the story and felt it depicts are small seed of evil in all of us. In the story Green morning a very good man Mr. Driscoll plants trees on Mars and goes to sleep, only to find that all have grown over night. Here we see a human doing something good for everyone and that is rare.
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Summary: It was aveage, that's all.
Review: "Martian Chronicles" is an average book. It isn't something I would read for personal enjoyment, but I didn't really mind reading it as a class assignment. It had a lot of original ideas and a weird twist that made you want to keep reading. The class discussions based on the concepts of the stories were interesting and actually got my class in some heated debates. My least favorite chapter was "Ylla". As the first basic chapter of the book I thought it should have been more interesting. It made me not want to read the rest of the book. It was too confusing and boring. Thankfully, the rest of the book got better as it went on. My favorite chapter was "Usher II". This chapter had me turning the pages as fast as I could. It gave the book a bit of a horror novel twist. I would reccomend this book for a class assignment, but that's about all.
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Summary: Martian Encounters
Review: Martian Chronicles was an enjoyable and entertaining book. It made me look at the way things lived differently from they way I do. Even though the book got boring at times, it still grabbed my attention enough to finsih it. One chapter I dont believe kept my interest very well was The Silent Towns. It didn't really go along with the story too well. Walter Gripp and Genevive may have been the last two on the planet but the chapter after that had people living once again. The whole deal about Walter not liking her for her bringing the wedding dress didn't really make sense it was more because of her personality and looks. The chapter that I like the most was Way in The Middle of The Air. I liked the whole situation where Silly and all the other blacks took a stand for what they believed in and left for Mars. It just gave s sensation of how people are prejudice and that the slaves didn't deserve the treatment and weren't going o take it any longer. For those who read this review keep in mind that this is only my oppinion and you dont have to agree with it. I enjoyed the book for the most part but then again it lagged here and there. Jeni
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Summary: This book could have been a short story and not a novel...
Review: The stories in the book "Martian Chronicles", are okay, but they all say the same thing. They are all about a group of people going to Mars, someone going nuts, and killing everyone. My favorite short story in this book is was "Usher II" It was exciting and interesting, but on the other hand, the one i hated the most was "The Earth Man". The reason i disliked "The Earth Man" was because by the fourth short story, I knew that every story is about the same thing. I think that the book could have been better if the stories weren't so similar. Overall, i would have not read this book if it was not required for me to do so.
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Summary: Find a book that satisfies your interests.
Review: I wasn't really in to the book at first, so it was hard to follow. I liked the way the people and surroundings were described, but it seems like it took the describing as far as were I couldn't even understand it. I'm really not a fan of books, but when I have to read them, it's nice to read a book that interests me, and catches my eye. The story that seemed most enticing to me was, Way up in the middle of the air. I was able to follow, and understand the meaning of this story. I liked the way it described the river of blacks on their mission to leave earth. I like the non-fiction books better than the fiction, because they seem more real. They are also able to give me more of a mental picture, and it's easier to follow something that has happened to me or ever could happen to myself. I would reccomend this book to someone who likes fiction and easily follows descriptive books, for people like myself I wouldn't reccomend it: thats only my opinion.
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Summary: The book was not very interresting or good
Review: At the very begining of the book, Rocket Summer and Ylla, I thought I would be very interested. They are in good detail. The story kept me wanting to read more. It wasn't until I read The Summer Night that I started to think the book was not for me. From that point on I have to say I was not wanting to read the book. Every thing seemed so far fetched. Especially the bee gun. I like science fiction books but books that are more realistic. That is just a few of my thoughts. I'm not saying you will not enjoy this book. I just don't know anyone who does.
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Summary: This book should have never been put together
Review: The stories in this book were decent as seperate short stories, but put together in a book they're horrible. The stories should have been left as a collection if short stories. Come on people the book doesn't even tie the stories together. You have a story about one thing then you a little ditty about some guy planting trees. What does that matter, he never shows up in the story again and the trees aren't important. The best storey in the book is "There will come soft rain". The only redemning quality of that story is that it has that dog who dies of radition poisoning, and then gets ate by those little rats. As for the worst story, I nominate the whole friggin' book. It was like pulling teeth, I've had a better time a church. It was a stream of meaningless stories, that should have never been put together. It's not that I don't like Ray, it's just this book is really, really dumb. Well that's just my take on it, you might really like so go ahead and read it, but don't say I didn't warn you.
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Summary: Amanda Herring's GREAT NATCOTIC
Review: I am seventeen years old and would have never read this book if it wasn't for my english teacher. In my short life this was book was one of the most boring books I have ever read. The over all text flowed like molasses in January: the paragraphs turned in to sentences, the sentences in to words , and words in to letters that eventually put me to sleep. The over all story didn't have a classic plot line , most of the characters only showed up in one (or very rarely two) chapters: I found it very challenging to relate or sympithize with what the characters felt over all. If a character was killed off early (or even late) in a chapter I could care less (and most of the characters were killed off). It was just a few short stories that us as eleventh graders shouldn't have been forced to read. The only reason I gave the book a two was because the over all point of view, of a self-distructing planet (EARTH), and our attempt to flee from: Racism (one of the over all themes), War (which did distroy earth) , and People who attempted to censor and control those who were not in power. The most interesting chapter in the book was USHER II: this chapter had the insite and the theme to censor people in any way was a bad and potentialy deadly practice. I believe that not all sensor ship is good but it's not all necessarialy bad: their has to be that comfort zone that society needs to survive. My least favorite chapter showed a post atomic earth and an empty mars : left on mars after after the atomic war on earth was no one but a lonely man and a fat woman; the theme entailed "not even if you were the last person on the planet". I was offended by the way fat people were portraid, food crazed and pushy. The book was not only put together strangley, but worded in that intolerable way that made reading before bed time a quick nap and a long night of realy strange dreams. If your looking for A GREAT NARCOTIC this is the book for you.
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Summary: The book i never read
Review: The Martian Chronicles was a very weird book. The book was written in 1946 and was very outdated for my taste. Although the stories that I did read I found them only somewhat interesting but not horrible. And the stories that I did not read and learned what they were in class were very strange and for the most part uninteresting.Although I did not like this book one story that I did find interesting was Way In The Middle of the Air. This story showed the controversy of blacks and whites in any society and I think that that subject is something important to talk about in a book. The story that I liked least was Ylla because I really didn't pay attention to what was happening and the events of the story. Also it was very boring and the story was retarded and horrible. Poor Ylla, I can't believe she would stay with a total jerk like Yll!!! I think this book is a boring and worhtless book to read in school because it shows nothing about English class and is really a pointless book to read. This book, I think should be updated and it could be much better. The book could even be a good science fiction movie and with the help of Hollywood it could be a hit!!!!! Well for now good by and if you are reading this book GOOD RIDDENS!!!!
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