The Martian Chronicles

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Summary: Kinda boring
Review: The book Martian Chronicles was an alright book but kinda boring. Some parts of the book got a little exciting or some what humorous. Some of the stories like Silent Towns, Way in the middle of the air, or Usher II or the the exciting ones or humorous ones but the others I found boring. I never really found any of the stories too boring to where I fell asleep reading them, but I found some of them not to exciting.

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Summary: I learned a little, and was entertained some.
Review: Ray Bradbury's book, "The Martian Chronicles", maybe wasn't as entertaining, as it was an outlook on human behavior. In this book Bradbury captured the human soul in it's ugliest form. In his twenty-six chapters he has shown light on some of are more monsterous emotions. This book is as much science fiction, as it is a book on human behavior. This book shows us Jealiuosy, censorship racism, religein, and so many other emotions. The chapter "-and the moon be still as bright" was I think the singal best outlook on the human soul, that I have ever read in a science ficton book, up to date. Even the weakest chapter "The Green Morning" still captivated the mind, if you let it. Even with all its great outlooks it still succeeded in being some what entertaining. With everything said and done "Martian Chronicles" was a good book, with some great, and not so great stories.

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Summary: A creative book
Review: Martian Chronicles was an enjoying book. It was one of the most creative and inventive books I have ever read. My favorite chapter was the last one, "Million-Year Picnic"; probably because it has a great ending and it kind of sums the whole book up. Some of the stories were somewhat boring and just not getting my full attention such as "The Third Expedition". I know it was needed in the book but I didn't like it. I did like how incorporated social issues in the book though, like censorship and racism. In all I liked the book through it's ups and downs.

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Summary: Spooky...
Review: Over all I liked the Martian Chronicles, but I don't think it deserved a five. Mostly because there was nothing that would inspire me to change my life in any way. It never made me cry. No hero or heroine ever died to preserve their virtue. I never got attached to a specific charcter, (except for Ylla who never re-entered the story after chapter one). However, not everything I have to say about this book is nagative. It was a great collection of stories that kept you on your seat. It held you in suspense. It was a great puzzle to fit together. My favorite story was probably Usher II. It was purely evil, and thats not something you find often in a book. Other chapters I liked were "And The Moon Be Still As Bright" and "Night Meeting." The only chapters I really didn't like were "The Earth Men" and "The Third expedition." It's not that I didn't really like them, they just weren't my favorites.

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Summary: Creative imagination, yet so unfulfilling
Review: I read this book in my eleventh grade honors class as a science-fiction selection. I felt like I was reading through a child's imagination. It was very adventurous. But, to me it was too easy. There wasn't much depth, it was just "plain and simple." We are now reading Cold Mountain, and by no means does this book compare in any way, any way at all. My least favorite section in the book was Ylla, and my most favorite was -And the Moon Be Still as Bright. Really I liked the last chapter the most, for the simple fact that it was THE LAST, and I knew that Ild be finished soon. I read the first 3-4 sections hopoing that it would get better, and then when it didn't, I had to force myself to finish it, so that I wouldn't fail the exam over it. The only reason I finished this book, most deffinatly, was because it was for class.

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Summary: Creative , Yet Unsatisfying
Review: I really didn't care for this book at all. I don't like science-fiction. If you like science-fiction it is definitely the book for you & it's really well written. I'd have to say my favorite chapter is "The Million-Year Picnic". I thought it was really awesome how,the parents, revealed to the children that they were the real martians. My least favorite chapter was "Way Up In The Middle of The Air". I mean come on ,hello, are we on Earth or Mars? A little repetition of the 50's. This book was on a thin line of bad & ok. Don't get me wrong, Bradbury is talented.

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Summary: An enticing adventurous book in its own day, not anymore.
Review: I read Martian Chronicles and thought that it would have been a very good book in its own day. Now almost at the new millenium the stories weren't cutting edge. I have seen more movies with more twisted spins and evil alien like planets. The book probably caused controversy when it was first published, and caused new topics to be discussed, but I don't think that in this day and age we should have to read something this old. The book did have good stories although they were not new ideas. Personally, I thought that the book would have been better twenty years ago when space exploration wasn't as common.

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Summary: -And the moon be still as bright ...
Review: overall, bradbury did a superb job of writing these science fiction stories. the stories are entertaining while still incorporating a bit of symbolism.

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Summary: The Foresight of the Apocolypse
Review: This story, in it's own age, was probably nothing more than a startling look into a future of a planet that we could not yet reach. A look at an age filled with space travel, and strange creatures of a different race. But today, it's just another science fiction novel on a row filled with classics, sitting next to 2001, and A Brave New World. But, apon reading it you discover more to it than that, you see a philosophy, and thought that most could not have reached. Apon reaching the end of the book, you find a startling paradox that is worthy of a Japanese Proverb. In my own opinion, My favorite story was "Usher II", but then again, my least favorite was "Way In The Middle Of The Air" so I guess you could say I was evenly distributed. But over all, I say it is worthy of it's classic status, and should continue to be read by students al over the world.

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Summary: Sci-Fi thats woth reading
Review: Ray Bradbury is one of the few science fiction writers who actually writes something worth reading. There will come Soft Rains is great as a story by itself and the only story I could have done without was The Long Years.