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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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Summary: Liked it then, like it now
Review: I'm not much of a science fiction buff but this book was a "mandatory" read when I was in high school. As I began to read each chapter, I fell more and more in love with this book. So much to the point that I kept the book for myself - over 10 years ago! And to this day, I cannot pinpoint exactly why I like this book.
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Summary: Best sci fi I've read
Review: I didn't expect to like this book - I read it because it was assigned to me in school years ago. It stuck with me. Bradbury is a deft satirist -- he makes many excellent points about modern society through his allegorical look at the exploration on Mars. I found the book fascinating, challenging, and yet not too hard to read. I don't particularly like the use of the short story format -- I think if he'd written it as a novel rather than interconnected short stories, it would've worked even better. I also found it a bit violent at times; I'd have preferred to have the violence be a bit more implied than stated. But overall, I think this is an important work that everyone, sci fi fan or not, should probably read for the underlying message about accepting others. The book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend, and I started and finished it today. It starts with a bang, and after that its all uphill. This book gives the cold hard facts of mankind, how we pilfer, and destroy everything we touch. The ending is just as great, if not better than, the beginning, and makes you want to turn the page and discover a new chapter, and another, and another, and you get the point.
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Summary: This book was the worst book i have ever read.
Review: I bought this book about a week ago and i was looking forward to reading it. I thought it had a cool cover. You know what they say. You can judge a book by it's cover. The martian chronicles was a horrible book! Anyone who is reading this dont buy this book. It was so loooooong and booooring. It had no point to it besides how peole live on mars. I recommend you don't read this book it was boring and a waste of time.
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Summary: This is the book that got me into Science Fiction
Review: Simply put this is a great book that will leave you amazed.
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Summary: Long Live Ray!
Review: This is not quite my favorite collection by Ray Bradbury, but it would have to be pretty darn close. Bradbury has a way of writing to keep the reader interested. His plots are simple, yet intriguing; uncontroversial, yet explosive; quiet, yet powerful. He puts into this book what should go into every book. He wrote the book as if the events had actually happened and that is why I respect this collection so much. Even the short stories are powerful when read along witht the other stories. Long live the master!
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