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Summary: Read Around People Who Want to Hear You Exclaim:What in the?
Review: Absolutely wonderful stories that leave you with a smile and wide, confused eyes. The fact that they're all short stories is nice because you can get from begining to end of a story in one sitting. I've read other stuff by Ray Bradbury but this is my favorite so far. I recomend this to anyone who will read with an open mind. My favorite part was the last story because basically it means that anyone could write these. They're just those weird what-ifs that go on in your own head but you never write down or talk about.
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Summary: Bradbury's newest is nice but not his best
Review: After nearly a decade since his last short story collection (and about FIVE since his first), it's very nice to see the master back on the new book shelves. Longtime fans will recognize familiar themes such as time travel of one sort or another to make amends ("That Woman On the Lawn," "Last Rites,"), fairly old fashioned horror tales ("The Finnegan," "The Witch Door," "Free Dirt"), the never-forgotten carnival characters ("The Electrocution"), and the elegiac yearning for the old and familiar amid the shock and speed of the new ("The Other Highway," which seems to pick up where "Yes, We'll Gather at the River" in _I Sing The Body Electric_ left off). But there are no mind-blowing stories in this bunch, nothing on the order of "A Sound of Thunder," "The Utterly Perfect Murder" or "I Sing the Body Electric" -- pick your own favorites. It's just lovely to see the master still at it after all these years
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Summary: Still Good Stuff
Review: Bradbury has once again written a very good collection. As compared with everybody else is is still the best collection out there. as compared against his own work, is still good but not a classic. This may not be fair to him, but "Quicker Than the Eye" just does not rise up to his historic standards. This collection seems to about death in its various forms, but told through the eye of a romantic. Some of the stories are about true horror "The Finnegan" and some of the stories are about time travel "The Witch Door". My personal favorites are "If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion?" and "Free Dirt". The first leaves a smile on your face and the second is a macabre tale about getting free dirt from a graveyard. This is still good stuff and is a very enjoyable way to pass the time, just not up to the legendary standards of the past. Recommended.
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Summary: Still Good Stuff
Review: Bradbury has once again written a very good collection. As compared with everybody else is is still the best collection out there. as compared against his own work, is still good but not a classic. This may not be fair to him, but "Quicker Than the Eye" just does not rise up to his historic standards. This collection seems to about death in its various forms, but told through the eye of a romantic. Some of the stories are about true horror "The Finnegan" and some of the stories are about time travel "The Witch Door". My personal favorites are "If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion?" and "Free Dirt". The first leaves a smile on your face and the second is a macabre tale about getting free dirt from a graveyard. This is still good stuff and is a very enjoyable way to pass the time, just not up to the legendary standards of the past. Recommended.
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Summary: I laughed, I cried, I thought in a different way
Review: Bradbury is amazing and at his best in a short story format. This collection is not science fiction, although book stores tend to insist that if Bradbury wrote it, it must be SciFi. It is fiction, and often a sort of twisted Aesop's fables. Bradbury has a unique gift for hiding important moral axioms deep within his story line. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate a good short story. Some of the stories in this book will stick with you for weeks.
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Summary: I laughed, I cried, I thought in a different way
Review: Bradbury is amazing and at his best in a short story format. This collection is not science fiction, although book stores tend to insist that if Bradbury wrote it, it must be SciFi. It is fiction, and often a sort of twisted Aesop's fables. Bradbury has a unique gift for hiding important moral axioms deep within his story line. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate a good short story. Some of the stories in this book will stick with you for weeks.
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Summary: This is my favorite of all of Ray Bradbury's works.
Review: Except for "The Halloween Tree", Quicker Than the Eye" is my all time favorite of Ray Bradbury's works! Every story is full of wonderful descriptive language and stimulating plots. This is the first anthology I have read in which I loved every story!
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Summary: He has still got 'it'!
Review: It being his incredible artistry with the Enligsh language... I was so excited to see this on the shelf of my local bookstore, after so many years of seeing the same three Ray Bradbury books and never any new titles. I bought it on the spot! I highly recommend this book to any fan of Ray Bradbury's work, or to anyone who wishes to introduce his classic works into their library. He is a passionate visionary that writes not only about sci-fi, but his colorful writing style encapsulates the sometimes ineffable feelings that each and every one of us have had about every possible situation in life, and dare I say, in death. I always feel like a kid again when I read his books, I am taken away to warm, sunny Saturdays when I was still in awe of the newness of life. I can hardly force myself to read the works of others as I am convinced that no one can do with words the magic that Ray Bradbury has done.
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Summary: An excellent collection from an American master
Review: Ray Bradbury is rightfully acknowledged for master works FAHRENHEIT 451 and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. By his own admission, however, short stories are his forte. For years he has crafted fantastic explorations of the human condition with style so simple and unpretentious that what is now labled MINIMALIST is, in fact, the art of The Poet.QUICKER THAN THE EYE is the collection where Bradbury's "meta-theme" of a good heart vs. TEMPTATION from the world; the Devil; or flesh is given profound consumation. The terror tale DORIAN IN EXCELSUS is my choice as the collection's singular fable. It presents classic Faustian bargain for The Soul. Bradbury is elegantly ironic (and merciless) in narrating THE ULTIMATE TEMPTATION to self-apotheosis/homage in narcissism. Bradbury alludes his story to Oscar Wilde's PICTURE of DORIAN GRAY where the Romantic Commandment: "Beauty is truth...truth is beauty; that is all you know on earth; and all you need to know (Keats)" was twisted by evil hedonism into license for limitless perversion. And where observed (The Portrait) DECONSTRUCTION of one's inner self becomes wicked PARODY of The Beatific Vision. "Rapture" in self-Love is what Bradbury's protagonist is offered (He observes dozens of young men gazing lovingly AT THEMSELVES in mirrors of a cult/club called Gray's Anatomy Bar & Grill). The irony of the place and the description of THE GYM where "initiates" work-out to stave-off final "absorption" into the anti-Self/God "DORIAN" has to be one of the most terrifying passages ever written. Yet it fully embraces the anti-aesthetic proposed by PM Deconstructionists like Michael Foucault and Jacques Derrida (& Clive Barker). Homosexuality; vampirism; incest; cannibalism and ULTIMATE (self)-ABORTION are all implied in Bradbury's coda. Even the title is a mockery of the hymn the Angelic Host is averred to have sung to infant Christ at his Nativity. Yet a single gesture of GOODNESS saves the pathetically bedazzled "hero". In my estimate Ray Bradbury is America's equivalent to the great British mythologist-theologian, C. S. Lewis. The jacket of QUICKER THAN THE EYE proclaims: a single story is worth the price of the book... DORIAN IN EXCELSUS (Glory to Dorian in the Highest!) is this story. It speaks to a culture that glorifies SELF. It is master story teller Ray Bradbury's art that illuminates the essence and consequences of Self-worship as well as proposing how in a twinkle of the eye, man might choose to escape SELFishness in and for GOOD...
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Summary: Book Review For Quicker Than The Eye, by Ray Bradbury
Review: The book Quicker Than The Eye by Ray Bradbury is a collection of short stories. Written by the critically acclaimed author of such books as Farenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Martian Chronicles, this book continues Bradbury's outstanding tradition of phenomenal writing. In Quicker Than The Eye, Bradbury shows us the fine literary elements in his stories, from setting and plot to character development. In such stories as "If MGM Is Killed, Who Gets The Lion?", Bradbury immediately develops a rich setting and time-frame, as well as characters and their personality traits. While reading this book, I was thoroughly impressed with the diverse nature of his writing. Some of his stories can be dark and macabre, while the next story is lighthearted and witty. Some of his stories simply leave us with a smile on our face as we finish them. Bradbury exhibits knowledge of many different subjects, such as marine technology in "Underderseaboat Doktor", of music in "Once More, Legato", and also much more in the many stories to come. He even delves into fantasy, leaving a sort of feeling that jumps at the edge of our perception. Clearly, it seems as though Bradbury has taken all of his knowledge from the best of his writing and expanded it, refined it, and delivered it in a book that is almost sure to please the reader. To put this book on a scale of 1-10, I would rate this book a 9.5. Don't get me wrong, I would recommend this book thoroughly, however, if one is a long time fan of Bradbury, one might find his writing to be just a small bit repetitive, all in spite of it`s descriptive nature. However, one might be pleased as this book offers a lighter approach as opposed to some of his darker writing, such as The Halloween Tree, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. The descriptiveness is most captivating, however, as well as his extreme diversity of writing, so should one get bored of one story in the book, there is ample selection of other stories to choose from. In conclusion, I should say that from my perspective, this is a must read book. It has something almost for everyone. Unlike some stories, his are captivating from the first few words, and are nearly sure to hook the reader, making this a very hard book to put down.
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