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Summary: Excellent
Review: The Martian Chronicles is a great book. The idea of Martian's living life just like Eathlings is intriging. The irony that unfolds and the epic adventure is like no other. This is a truly magnificent book. BUY BUY BUY!
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Summary: Excellent story that would make Poe very happy!
Review: Using references from other stories really brought me into this book. The story 'Usher II' really grabbed my attention. Ray Bradbury uses Poe for most of this story, and when he started with the Amontillado, I knew the rest of the chapter, and Bradbury did an excellent job redoing this great short story, and it really shows the evilness of Stendahl
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Summary: Not very realistic...
Review: The Martians were dangerous, and attacked humans when unprovoked. Any civilazation would never attack men they didnt want. The chronicles have too much death. The martians killed every earthling they saw. its too unrealistic and needs a lot of help
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Summary: Made Me Pause
Review: Too often after I'm finished a book the feeling that I get is one of relief at having finished it. The Martian Chronicles is one of the few books where I wished there had been more to read. I just sat quietly with my thoughts when I was finished. It's not often that a book will make me take stock of my life and the direction that it's going, but The Martian Chronicles did just that.The Martian Chronicles is not a typical science fiction story. It is really a story about the continuous change that mankind undergoes. Seeking a place to colonize, man comes to Mars only to be forever altered by what he encounters. The Martians struggle against this colonization in many subtle and varied ways. In the end it is a combination of what was and what is that eventually succeeds on Mars.
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Summary: amazing, every time
Review: my older brother, a big sci-fi fan, told me about this book several years ago and i decided to read it although i had never read a sci-fi book before. chronicles is definitely not a book i will ever regret picking up. at first i was a little frustrated by the cutting of the stories, and then their conclusion coming later on, but i soon grew to love it as it just added more suspense and interest to the novel. since i first read it, about 7 years ago, i have read it numerous times, too many to count. every story is amazing and beautifully written...it is an absolute masterpiece. i haven't read it in about a year or so, but i can still remember the stories so vividly...my favorite being the story about the man and his dream of trees on mars. i recommend this book to any and all readers.
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Summary: Powerful statement about our society
Review: When I was first reading this book I felt that it made had some good underlying points about our society, but nothing revolutionary. However, I was shocked when I realized when it was written. Bradbury has great vision and many of his points hold true today.
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Summary: Naive, sentimental, lyrical, wonderful.
Review: I was introduced to short stories by Bradbury (as have many) in grade school, starting with "R is for Rocket", but I never read this book until last weekend. It moved me like few things I have recently read. That is art. In this age of the Novel, many readers will balk the the crazy-quit pattern of chapter-stories, and its lack of linear plot-line. But this structure of Chronicles weaves a wonderful thread for readers mature enough to follow it. If you haven't read it since childhood, read it again! And if you've never read it before, please correct this error soon!
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Summary: Man Lands On Moon in 1999
Review: The year is 1999 and man has landed on Mars leaving behind his entire world on the edge of destruction. Man comes and settles Mars, but at the same time, Mars is settling man. Many people land and find settlements to occupy on Mars. After years if living on Mars, man recieves a message from Earth thst war i breaking out. Many of the men return to Earth to fight for their original planet. Their world, already on the brink of destruction was destroyed by their own incompetence leaving the single remaining family on Mars to learn the lesson of life on their own. <I> The Martian Chronicles</I>, by Ray Bradbury is a compelling and fast paced science fiction novel. Ray Bradbury is a very descriptive write, and that quality let him write a fast-paced and descriptive book. His writing gives you a sense of being therre on Mars, observing, while nobody would know you were there. His story is supposed be set in the present, although it is necessary to know that the story takes place in the future. When Bradbury wrote <I>The Martian Chronicles</I> the year was 194 so 1999 would be a reasonable year to expect settling on the moon. <I>The Martian Chronicles</I> is a very well written and descriptive book by Ray Bradbury. Of the many books I have read, I consider <I>The Martian Chronicles</I> to be one of the best. The book might be overbearing if you do not absorb detail very quickly. I enjoyed it although I had to read and reread some of the chapters, because it was so descriptive and made me feel like I had my own window into the future. I would recommend this book this book to anyone who has time to read an excellent novel. Although this book could be read by anyone, I would not recommend anyone under sixth grade reading it because of the subject matter. <I>The Martian Chronicles</I> by Ray Bradbury is a thought provoking novel well worth reading
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This book is simply haunting. I love it, and you will too
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Summary: Great Millenium reading!
Review: At first I was a little lost with the lack of continuity between chapters...However, I really began to enjoy the book once I accepted it for what it is, a collection of individually published short stories. It's easy to be critical of Bradbury's fantasy as the stories assert facts/issues known to us now not to be true or not to have happened, but give the guy a break! I admired his boldness in taking a 'stab' at our future...and if anything else, found it interesting to 'see' the concept of our present day world through the eyes of a fiction writer experiencing the times immediately following WWII...If you can only enjoy feasible/factual Sci-fi, this is not a book for you! A special treat for me was recognizing a number of these stories as scripts used in the Twilight Zone series. This is a book I look forward to picking up again someday and sharing with my kids.
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