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Summary: dosent deserve even 1 star
Review: This is possibly the worst book that has ever been written. There is no plot, and no aparent theme unless you count death, misery, space, and martians. I have heard kindergardeners come up with stories much better than this, in fact i dont know how this book was ever published. This is a book that inspires you to write a book becuase it shows that basically it can be as crappy as you want becuase obviosly publishers cant tell good literature from bad. This big is terrible! dont buy it!!!
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Summary: the crapy man
Review: i hate it it is the worst book i have ever read!!!!!!!!
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Summary: an incredibly beautiful book!
Review: i read this book in 4 days! it's a truely moving book! it's honestly one of the best books i have ever read. ray bradbury really pinpoints the human condition in this masterful collection of short stories! i would read this book over and over again. i deffinatly reccomend it for anyone that is a fan of brabury's work or even a fan of science fiction. i have reccomended this book to everyone i know, and you would be seriously missing out if you never read it.
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Summary: A series of chilling short stories
Review: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradburry was interesting. not near the quality of farenheit 451, but still not bad. another series of short stories, this one was displayed as predictions of the future. They were pretty good, and if you want to read short stories, i prefered them over one more for the road. very easy to read and understand. Most of them were a little chilling. They definitely gave a view of Bradbury's love of horror. Ranging from space travel to an african safari in your home, this book covered just about every futuristic thought.
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Summary: No carnival will take him
Review: "Prologue: The Illustrated Man" and "Epilogue" are used as a binding element for this short story collection, linked together by images on the Illustrated Man's skin.The name of "The City" was and is Revenge, upon the planet of Darkness - and after 20 millennia of waiting, Earthmen have come calling. "The Concrete Mixer" Ettil objects to the Martian invasion of Earth - he's been reading illegally imported Earth fiction, and knows how all such invasions end. Meet "The Exiles" - the reverse image of Bradbury's "Usher II". "The Fire Balloons" Father Peregrine and his colleagues have come to Mars as missionaries to the Martians. But there are two species of Martians - the dying race of the Martian Chronicles, and a species of fire globes that humans can't communicate with yet. "The Fox and the Forest" Fleeing from a war-torn future, two time travellers have taken new identities in 1938. "The Highway" provides occasional windfalls for Hernando and his family - tourists driving south into Mexico who want to photograph him as a picturesque poor farmer, for instance. The drivers always complain - until today, as they flee the atom-bombing of the cities. "Kaleidoscope" Although the crew were spacesuited when the ship was torn open, none had propulsion units - so here they are, falling, scattered so that they mostly can't see each other, unable to do anything except talk to pass their last few hours. (One twist is that they aren't all caught by Earth's gravity - some go one way, some another.) On "The Last Night of the World", all the adults *know*, from having had the same dream, that the end has come. 'You don't scream about the real thing.' "The Long Rain" Bradbury's Venus is a jungle suffering near-perpetual rain - in this story, rain that *never* ceases. The planet's only continent has been seeded with Sun Domes for lost spacemen - but the natives occasionally manage to destroy them. The survivors of a rocket crash are trying to make it to shelter before the endless water torture cracks them up... "The Man" Hart, Martin, and the crew of their rocket have discovered a new world - but none of the inhabitants take any notice, because something *really* big has just happened - a messiah appeared the day before. Hart's first reaction is to ask if his competitors have beaten him here. :) ('I sympathize, Martin. I overlook your petty insubordination.' 'I don't overlook your petty tyranny.') Hart is driven to go on and on, so much so that he can't quite recognize what he's been looking for. "Marionettes, Inc." Unlike _I Sing the Body Electric!_, here robots are illegally sold as replicas of specific people. Braling wants to escape his marriage, but gets more than he bargained for. Hitchcock lives only in the moment, rejecting the pain of both memory and anticipation. But in space, it's "No Particular Night Or Morning". "The Other Foot" - In _The Martian Chronicles_' "Way Up High in the Middle of the Air", African-Americans left Earth's segregation for Mars' freedom. Now the first rocket for 20 years brings the first white men the children have ever seen, while their parents aren't feeling charitable to these survivors of an atomic war. But Hattie Johnson doesn't want to see her husband turn into everything he hated. "The Rocket" - The Bodonis dream of Mars - but have money for only one ticket. Doug's childhood memories of his father, "The Rocket Man", are of a man gone for months at a time without a word, for fear he'd want to be with his family, "home" for three days or so, then gone again. Doug's mother treats space as though it doesn't exist, wanting her husband to stay and have a life with his family - hard, knowing that you can see all the places where he's been, while they're forever out of reach. "The Veldt" - The Hadleys live in the kind of automated-to-the-max house seen in "There Will Come Soft Rains" in _The Martian Chronicles_. The adults worry that the nursery, with its full-sensory storytelling experiences, has supplanted them in their children's hearts - and what with the African stories they've been reading lately, the screams coming from the lions' kills are unnerving. "The Visitor" - Victims of 'blood rust' are permanent exiles quarantined on Mars, and they suffer most from homesickness. When a newcomer displays a gift for creating illusions of home, though, whose home will it be? "Zero Hour" - Children under nine have suddenly taken up a new game: invasion. It's creepy how Mrs. Morris' friends across the country *all* say their kids are pretending that the Martians are coming...
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Summary: A must read
Review: This book, personally, I think, is very interesting, to say the least. I would recommend it to anyone who loves Sci-fi because thats basically what it is. Every chapter contains a new story, so it reads more like a collection of short stories that have nothing to do with each other, when if fact they all do, because they are all on the Illustrated man.
Though I found some stories to be a bit confusing, and slightly frustrating, (since some I still didn't understand when finished.)All in all though the book was very catching, i.e. I couldn't put it down because the plot lines were very original and you never knew what to expect.
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Summary: A review on The Illustrated Man
Review: The Illustraded was a good book, and reminded me of Farenheit 451. Which was also a good book that Ray Bradbury wrote. The book is mostly about space, time-travel and robots. It was exciting and also boring at times. Overall I think he could have made some of the stories a bit more excitng.
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Summary: review on The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Review: If you have dreams of going beyond in outer space, and if you are a big historian, this is the book for you. I gave this book three stars because it wasn't the best book I have ever read but it wasn't the worst. This book has eighteen small science fiction stories. This book was very confusing but fascinating. If you are not able to understand the stories in the beginning chances are you will eventually understand them in the end. This book is framed by the tale of a man who made fun of a witch from the future. The witch put eighteen illustrations on him, and if you stand next to the illustrated man your life is like a open book.
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Summary: Great classic sci-fi
Review: This was the first Bradbury I've ever read, and was much better than that horrible show on cable. Essentially, this is an anthology loosely linked by a wrap-around story involving the titular "Illustrated Man". A carnival worker laid up by a broken limb, he decided to get fully tatooed in order to get another job. Unfortunately, the artist who turns our hero into a walking canvas is something of a witch. It's peak season for carnivals when, on a later summer afternoon, he meets our narrator. ..... and there doesn't seem to be a carnival in America that will hire him. His tattoos become living stories when stared at by customers. With spaceships, monsters and other oddities covering every inch of his body, he has become an unwitting page on which Bradbury writes his awesome stories. (None of the fictitious carnival-goers care for the stories since, we're told by the Illustrated Man himself, they all end with the viewer's horrible death). As night falls, the illustrations come alive, and the narrator comes to see tales of: - astronauts forced to confront their doom as they drift in space after their spaceship suddenly explodes (years later, this would be parodied in the movie "DarkStar".) - a living city built by a race of aliens annihilated by Earthlings and unwittingly discovered by exploring humans; - Human explorers seeking their outpost on Venus where it never stops raining (this was a strangely prophetic take on Vietnam, right down to references to congressional funding for additional outposts) - A mother and son driven to desperation by the occupational hazards of the husband's/father's job as a rocket pilot; - A community of African Americans driven to colonize Mars in an effort to escape earthbound prosecutions now confronts survivors of Earth's last great war; - Tourists who are really refugees from an oppressive future and will do anything to keep from having to back (or forth I guess); - A family in a future age in which artificial intelligence and virtual reality affect almost every aspect of their daily existence ("The Veldt"; this cautionary and visionary tale of AI and VR run amok seems to have provided the basis for far too many episodes of ST:TNG, none of which have come close to matching its subversive quality.) And other tales of exotic aliens, distant planets, rocket ships and the end of the world. This is what science fiction sounds like when your characters can't mask what's going on with meaningless techno-babble.
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Summary: "Skin illustrations, the sign of an artist"
Review: "Eighteen illustrations, eighteen tales." "The illustrations came to life..."
A man is encountered who has skin Illustrations all over his body. Each illustration represents a tale from the future. The illustrations come to life and tell a tale of doom or impending doom. In this way ray Bradbury can tell related but different tales in this book. Its Bradbury's writing style and dialogue that holds you as much as the storyline.
At first they are intriguing and fresh. Later they don't as much repeat but are similar in form and function.
One of the best "The Veldt" is first. Of course everyone will have a different favorite.
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