Ray Bradbury Tales of Fantasy/Audio Cassettes (Retail Packaging)

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Summary: a futeristic house is all that is left after a nuclear bomb
Review: It was fascinating. The story had no plot, but was extremely entertaining.
It had extreme detail. Which catches your attention.

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Summary: Raves for Ray
Review: Many of my favorite short stories are Ray Bradbury's, and "The Pedestrian" and "There Will Come Soft Rains" are only two of them.
"The Pedestrian" is, as is all Bradbury work, written with such imagery and detail that the reader actually experiences the story instead of just reading it from the outside. When you pick up this story, you become a pedestrian yourself, in this case a loner, a minority of minorities. Without giving away the end, you -as the reader / pedestrian- experience just a bit of what happens to those who go against the grain of what's popular and acceptable. But Bradbury leaves enough questions at the end that there is still hope, even in such a dire situation.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is -also standard Bradbury- at odds with typical short story style. In this case it is that the main character is an inanimate (sort of) object: a house. This story is a wonderful / awful prediction of what may become of us as a global society, combined with the ironic twist involving the title.
I love both of these stories and used them to teach many things about literature, grammar, writing, history, and philosophy to 7th graders, who were riveted by the stories and were drawn into critical thinking before they knew what hit them.

Rating:
Summary: Raves for Ray
Review: Many of my favorite short stories are Ray Bradbury's, and "The Pedestrian" and "There Will Come Soft Rains" are only two of them.
"The Pedestrian" is, as is all Bradbury work, written with such imagery and detail that the reader actually experiences the story instead of just reading it from the outside. When you pick up this story, you become a pedestrian yourself, in this case a loner, a minority of minorities. Without giving away the end, you -as the reader / pedestrian- experience just a bit of what happens to those who go against the grain of what's popular and acceptable. But Bradbury leaves enough questions at the end that there is still hope, even in such a dire situation.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is -also standard Bradbury- at odds with typical short story style. In this case it is that the main character is an inanimate (sort of) object: a house. This story is a wonderful / awful prediction of what may become of us as a global society, combined with the ironic twist involving the title.
I love both of these stories and used them to teach many things about literature, grammar, writing, history, and philosophy to 7th graders, who were riveted by the stories and were drawn into critical thinking before they knew what hit them.