Driving Blind

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Summary: Bradbury's best collection since The Toynbee Convector
Review: In this volume, Bradbury delivers his best short fiction since his remarkable collection, The Toynbee Convector. Some stories in Driving Blind are a bit bolder than much of Bradbury's previous work in the 1990s. Driving Blind has proven that Bradbury is still able to dish out some of the best short fiction of all time. He is truly a living legend.

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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Ray Bradbury is like your favorite uncle. He is full of wonderous stories that as a kid, you never get tired of hearing. Once again he puts together a wonderfull set of stories. I have rated this book 4 stars although it is actually 4 1/2 stars. Not a miss among the entire group. My only gripe with the book is that he has only one science fiction story and calling that one is a stretch. He writes about a small circus who the ticket taker is also the star and chief cook and bottle washer and how the picked on kid in school grows up to be important. My two favorite stories are "Driving Blind" about a mysterious man wearing a sack over his head and "Night Train to Babylon" about men on a train intent on losing their money on a rigged game of three card montey. It is amazing that he can turn out the quality of work he has after more than fifty years. This set of stories is less somber than some of his other short story collections and can actually be compared to "Dandelion Wine" in its feeling. Bradbury is still celebrating life and I hope he does for another fifty years. This book is fun and well worth the reading.

Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Ray Bradbury is like your favorite uncle. He is full of wonderous stories that as a kid, you never get tired of hearing. Once again he puts together a wonderfull set of stories. I have rated this book 4 stars although it is actually 4 1/2 stars. Not a miss among the entire group. My only gripe with the book is that he has only one science fiction story and calling that one is a stretch. He writes about a small circus who the ticket taker is also the star and chief cook and bottle washer and how the picked on kid in school grows up to be important. My two favorite stories are "Driving Blind" about a mysterious man wearing a sack over his head and "Night Train to Babylon" about men on a train intent on losing their money on a rigged game of three card montey. It is amazing that he can turn out the quality of work he has after more than fifty years. This set of stories is less somber than some of his other short story collections and can actually be compared to "Dandelion Wine" in its feeling. Bradbury is still celebrating life and I hope he does for another fifty years. This book is fun and well worth the reading.

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Summary: Why was there no sci-fi?
Review: This is a book of short stories written by Ray Bradbury. I picked it because I have read some of his other work such as Farheinhiet 451 and the Martian Chronicles. I enjoyed these thoroughly, and when i picked up this book I was expecting stories like these, science fiction. The problem is that they weren't science fiction I think their was either 2 or 3; normally I would tell you an exact number but on 2 of them I couldn't tell what genre they were and they just confused me.
The 1st story, "Night Train to Babylon" is about 3 card monte and this former boy magician. Then they through the boy magician out of the train for some reason. I think this was science fiction but I'm not sure and the middle makes no sense. The 2nd story also makes no sense and i can't even report on it. The 3rd one is of a ghost who is upset that his wife has stopped mourning. It was one of the better stories. The 4th one is a horrible story. It is of incest and underage cousins making out while their uncle is dying. A later story is of an adult that looks through yearbooks from many different years and different places and finds out that people are being reused. People have exactly identical twins from different places and years. Great beginning worst ending in the book. Last story I will review was called, "Mr. Pale" great story. It is in the style of the Martian Chronicles. It is of how the humans have colonized Mars and for some reason the death total on Mars is 0%, and the reason why is that death, a.k.a. Mr Pale, can only be in one place at a time. Great story and it doesn't let up in the ending.