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Summary: A Book to Remember
Review: I'm a freshman in high school and about a month ago we reciceved Martian Chronicles. A majority of the students say the books boring and some of upper classmen(sophmores,juniores,seniors) say this is the worst book in the freshman level. Actually it's not that bad. I like how they have mini stories in the book even though it gets confusing. It's pretty funny of how in 1999 people can go to Mars, but Bradbury had a good imgination.
If you are an African-American who gets offended easily by racial slurs. I'm not sure that this would be the book for you, because in a mini story there is a white man who just criticizes and threatens a character,who is black and uses racial slurs.
Anyway I'll keep this book, it's a book I'll remember for some time.
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Summary: Fantasy disguised as science fiction.
Review: This collection of short stories certainly deserves the classic status it has recieved. Each story in this book is an entertaining read. The settings pull you into a bizzare world were anything is possible.
However, to describe The Martian Chronicles as Science fiction is a bit of a stretch. Bradbury's vision of the future, the late nineteen nineties through the beginning of the twenty-first century, is unremarkable. He describes a Mayberry colinization of the planet Mars, complete with cozy little cottages and hotdog stands. This is completely forgiveable if you go into the book realizing it is really fantasy not science fiction. Bradbury makes up for his lack of futuristic vision with his ability to create intriguing scenarios.
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Summary: Freaky
Review: This book is very scary and that is why I like it. I read this book when I was 17 years old.
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Summary: BEWARE THIS BOOK IS EDITED!!
Review: There is supposed to be a story where all of the black people get fed up with the south, and the way they are treated, load up the rocket and leave all of the bigots behind. Incredibly some paper pushing editor must have thought this story would offend our sensitivities, and took it upon him or herself to remove it from the chronicles.Strange that the work of Mr. Bradbury, a champion of free speech, is being edited. Do not get this version! (I got hosed, but vowed to save my fellow readers from the same fate)!
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Summary: Timeless magic....
Review: Timeless magic, absolutely perfect, 1 of the 5 greatest books of all time; many of the stories collected here R 5-star worthy (in no particular order: "The Silent Towns," "The Long Years," "The Off Season," "Night Meeting," "The Third Expedition" -- also known as "Mars is Heaven!" -- "The Moon Be Still as Bright," "There Will Come Soft Rains," "The Million-Year Picnic," I'm sure I'm 4getting a couple) -- & the whole is permeated with the eerie dark-nite atmosphere of past-meeting-future that was Bradbury's Mars. The 1st SF book I ever read; even if U've been reading SF 4 years & have never read this, don't worry about it Cming "old" or "hokey" -- I don't think it's dated a bit. There's a lot more here than just nostalgia....
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Summary: FANTASY VS REALITY
Review: When I read Ray Bradbury books I cannot shake off the feeling that reality is constantly replaced with fantasy and fantasy is replaced with reality. What is what and where one becomes the other I do not know. And I do not want to know; I just do not want the book to be over.
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Summary: Bittersweet nostalgia from an alternate future....
Review: Ray Bradbury clearly carried the Western Frontier of Walt Whitman and Horace Greely to the Martian Frontier in this classic novel. If 1950's America would have had the rocket ships, and an inhabitable destination, planetary colonization would probably have gone very much like this. As the text says:" They were coming with small dreams or large dreams or none at all. But a government finger pointed from four-color posters in many towns:THERE'S WORK FOR YOU IN THE SKY: SEE MARS!" Heck, I'd go right now if I could.
His Mars is the essense of the wild frontier: the path finders, the pioneers, the pilgrims, the homesteaders, the townsfolk, the eccentrics- and then the bureaucrats.... Bradbury's Martians are haunting and tragic- and fare about as well as the Plains Indians in the face of "progress."
Actually, this story parallels the story of American West a little too closely- especially when it talks of the "silent towns." If you've ever seen the dead and dieing farm towns of the plains you know what I mean.
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Summary: Very Good Sci-Fi
Review: This was the first Ray Bradbury novel that I have ever read and it definitely will not be my last. "The Martian Chronicles" is a set of many short stories about the people of Earth landing on Mars and making a brand new civilization. All of the ideas that are in the stories are great and the stories can be broken down so you can identify themes that Ray Bradbury wanted the reader to learn. "The Martian Chronicles" was written during the first half of the twenty first century and I'm sure that it is still a fascinating read today as it was when it first came out. Bradbury had all of the stories take place from 1999 all the way to 2026 and it is very interesting to notice how almost nothing that was in Bradbury's futuristic novel has happened thus far in the history of the world. Most of the stories of this book are very interesting and can be enjoyed whether you read one or two and read none for a while or whether you read the book from cover to cover, enjoying this book like it holds many fragments to what may be a future that can end up happening. The people that make the journey to Mars leave for a variety of reasons. People may be leaving Earth to start a new and better life, to get away from Earth and it's events, to escape being punished for a crime commited on Earth, or to get away from the atomic war that is predicted to happen on Earth. This book holds the stories to the people that make the journey to the red planet and the stories contain just fragments of their lives there. Bradbury brings forth many issues that may have been very important when the book was written but that are not very important to today's general population. Things that Bradbury brings forward are that one person in the book may find a certain thing okay but are not okay to someone else, human nature and man's want to own all and rule all, and other things such as love. "The Martian Chronicles" is a very important novel for anybody to read. You don't only have to be a science fiction fan to appreciate the important things that this novel teaches. On top of teaching, however, this novel entertains greatly. I gave this novel four stars because I thought that there were a few mediocre stories, but these stories don't really detract from the overall enjoyment of the novel. This is a must read. Happy Reading!
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Summary: satisfied
Review: I really enjoyed the novel The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury.It was a very intresting, and at times disturbing book. The novel records the events that take place on a number of expeditions to the planet Mars. My favorite part of the book was pages 48 to 59.This part of the book is about an expediton that when the crew gets to Mars everyone's dead relatives were on the planet. This is a very intersting piece of sci-fi. Even though at sometimes it did ddrag,but i still reconmend it.
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Summary: well liked
Review: I really enjoyed The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury .It was a very interesting and at times disturbing novel.The book is about the adventures of a few different crews as they make their way to Mars.My favorite part of the book by far was the chapter entitled
The Third Expedition.This chapter was about the men making their way to Mars only to find all of their dead relatives there.Like I said I really enjoyed the book but at sometimes it did drag, but i still reconmend that you read it.
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