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Summary: A classic for all ages.
Review: Although the book has a bit of violence, this book can be enjoyed by all ages. Teens and adults may understand some of the metaphors a little better. A true classic for all genres.
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Summary: cool sci-fi book
Review: the martian chronicles is a book about humans colonizing Mars on the verge of the 'Great Atomic War.' they meet and 'invade' the martians, and both races see the planet differently. i would recommend this book to anybody at least ten years old
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Summary: A great mood piece
Review: Bradbury's Mars reminds me of something out of a Ronald Reagan fantasy--a world where people sit on porch swings and sip mint juleps after a hard day's work in the fields while the aroma of Grandma's homemade cookies wafts out the window. Considered as a sci-fi classic there really isn't much science here and not much in the way of plot either, but as a collection of mood pieces dripping with nostalgia for a vanished way of life that has somehow been transplanted to Mars, this book is without peer. A personal side note here--I heard Ray Bradbury speak once when they brought him to my junior high school in West Los Angelos 35 years ago. He's a good speaker, actually, and a bit of an eccentric. For example, he admits to being deathly afraid of flying and therefore drives a car everywhere. But he said he would get on a spaceship tomorrow and fly to Mars if he could--something surely more dangerous than a typical plane flight. Anyway, Bradbury himself turned out to be quite a character, and perhaps some of that gets into his stories like this one. The Martian Chronicles shows Bradbury at his best, in a story that ranks as one of the greatest mood pieces in science-fiction and as a story of a people's hopeful, romantic, but failed vision of a new life in a new and unknown world.
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Summary: Surreal
Review: That is the single word that accurately describes this "novel". Of course, there's a plethora more, but need I say more? I would have to say this is one of my top 10 fav books of all times. There aren't any main characters, main plots, and only minute description. By now you're probably thinking: What the hell? Well, it would have been a mistake had I not read this book, for it was referred to me by a dear friend. There are so many numerous plot twists in this book the sheer size of it boggles ones minds, and tests ones imaginations. I can clearly hear the distinct sound of KoRn's 'Dead Bodies Everywhere" echoing through my mind as there is the scene of the shootout with the renegade spaceman. This book is endowed with a mass of surreal scenes, that takes one to his/her limits. Read this book ASAP.
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Summary: ominous confusion, very nice
Review: Not the book to read if you want a 'normal' story. When I closed the book, I wasn't exactly sure what I had just read, but I knew It was good. The many scenes are different and confusing, but in a nice, ominous sort of way.
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Summary: SF Excellence
Review: I'm frankly surprised this magnificent collection of short-stories isn't rated higher. This is a can't miss book.
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Summary: Pretty forward thinking for something over 40 years old!
Review: Two things struck me about this book: 1) The title says "Martian Chronicles" and it is just that, a set of stories which are chronicles about Mars, and 2) As much as I hate to say it, Ray Bradbury's portrayal of humans is still accurate today. Mankind is almost entirely made up of people who are only interested in claiming something as "mine, mine, mine!", just like a greedy child, along with no real thought about possible ramifications of such things as war and murder. For an "old-fashioned sci-fi story" it sure holds up well to the prism of time!
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Summary: Bradbury is one of the best writers of 20th/21st century
Review: Let's see here: A man builds a reproduction of the House of Usher, an alien impersonates a lost child, an ironic tale of the last man and woman on Mars, the story of a house after the end of the world. The only thing that links them is the planet Mars and the themes that run through out Bradbury's entire body of work. These stories, like most anything by Bradbury, are amazingly poignant and lyrical. This and Gene Wolfe's Fifth Head of Cerberus are perhaps the two best novels made up out of short stories ever writen.
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Summary: Good but not great book
Review: I really liked this book, I thought that it was very very well writen but it just seemed to lack some main things that every story needs. I would recomend that any one who likes SiFi stories and adventures shold read this I really do like it but I just couldn't give it the full 5. This book has opened me to Ray Bradbury's books, I am currently reading one of his other because I do like he style.
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Summary: A unique series on it's own
Review: Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles' subjects a reader to an entirely different series of stories. The collection of stories is more of an account of various observations and reflections about Mars and man. The stories all tie together in one sense as they are about Mars, but each paints an entirely different viewpoint about the planet from the perspective of the people who go there or reside there. All the stories are good, and unique unto themselves. I found this book to be quite remarkable.
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