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whatulysses's review against another edition
5.0
Not all these stories are science fiction, and I'm staggered by Bradbury's touch with more ordinary subjects.
I just love him so much.
I just love him so much.
nekoshka's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.75
alibrareads's review against another edition
3.0
This anthology started off pretty strong, plus these were all easier to parse than other books by Bradbury I've read: not nearly as much purple prose, but there are definitely hints of it.
I really liked the first two stories "The Machineries of Joy" and "The One Who Waits", also really liked the fourth one "The Vacation", then it was on and off of which ones I actively enjoyed: "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar", "Almost The End of the World" (moral of the story is: TV bad, I guess lol), "And So Died Riabouchinska".
So 6 out of 21 I actively liked, the others were just okay or even a little boring. Aside from the very first one which was contemporary, the ones I liked were either sci-fi, horror, or dystopian. There were some others that fit those categories that I didn't take to as much, but most of the ones I didn't care for could be argued as being contemporary.
Not really sure what else to say about this! It was very okay. There were a few cool stories in here, but plenty of them were forgettable in my opinion, and it's a weird mish-mash of different genres.
Check out my YouTube review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIz8QlS2jw
I really liked the first two stories "The Machineries of Joy" and "The One Who Waits", also really liked the fourth one "The Vacation", then it was on and off of which ones I actively enjoyed: "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar", "Almost The End of the World" (moral of the story is: TV bad, I guess lol), "And So Died Riabouchinska".
So 6 out of 21 I actively liked, the others were just okay or even a little boring. Aside from the very first one which was contemporary, the ones I liked were either sci-fi, horror, or dystopian. There were some others that fit those categories that I didn't take to as much, but most of the ones I didn't care for could be argued as being contemporary.
Not really sure what else to say about this! It was very okay. There were a few cool stories in here, but plenty of them were forgettable in my opinion, and it's a weird mish-mash of different genres.
Check out my YouTube review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIz8QlS2jw
gladys_enmarte's review against another edition
medium-paced
"Las maquinarias de la alegría" es la novena antología -en orden cronológico- de Bradbury y fue publicada en 1964. Este libro contiene veintiún cuentos que van desde la ciencia ficción, la fantasía, el realismo y hasta dos semiautobiográficos.
En el primer cuento que abre la antología, y que le da su nombre, tenemos a tres curas viejecitos que se pelean por citar a Blake y porque uno de ellos mira televisión hasta muy entrada la madrugada. En otro hay niños que crecen hongos gigantes en el ático, en otro hay una criatura incorpórea en un pozo de agua en marte y que espera la llegada de alguien desde hace más de 10.000 años, una mujer con sobrepeso y totalmente tatuada -¿o no?- por su marido, un enano; un ventrílocuo obsesionado con su antigua asistente; un espejismo es descubierto en el medio de la nada y te muestra los lugares que siempre quisiste visitar y no pudiste, Roma, París y hasta Kubla Khan (lugar que se menciona en un poema de Coleridge). Y los mencionados semiautobiográficos, que son "El mendigo del puente O'Connell" y "Un vuelo de cuervos".
No es mi antología favorita de Bradbury, pero hubo varios cuentos que me gustaron más que el resto y son: El que espera, Un milagro raro, Y así murió Riabouchinska, El día de muerte (en español en el original).
Si ya leyeron varias antologías de Bradbury y no saben por cuál seguir explorando su narrativa es este libro.
En el primer cuento que abre la antología, y que le da su nombre, tenemos a tres curas viejecitos que se pelean por citar a Blake y porque uno de ellos mira televisión hasta muy entrada la madrugada. En otro hay niños que crecen hongos gigantes en el ático, en otro hay una criatura incorpórea en un pozo de agua en marte y que espera la llegada de alguien desde hace más de 10.000 años, una mujer con sobrepeso y totalmente tatuada -¿o no?- por su marido, un enano; un ventrílocuo obsesionado con su antigua asistente; un espejismo es descubierto en el medio de la nada y te muestra los lugares que siempre quisiste visitar y no pudiste, Roma, París y hasta Kubla Khan (lugar que se menciona en un poema de Coleridge). Y los mencionados semiautobiográficos, que son "El mendigo del puente O'Connell" y "Un vuelo de cuervos".
No es mi antología favorita de Bradbury, pero hubo varios cuentos que me gustaron más que el resto y son: El que espera, Un milagro raro, Y así murió Riabouchinska, El día de muerte (en español en el original).
Si ya leyeron varias antologías de Bradbury y no saben por cuál seguir explorando su narrativa es este libro.
mnegolf's review against another edition
2.0
There were a couple of good ones, but it was overall underwhelming, especially compared to The October Country.
vondrake's review against another edition
A great collection of stories. Some I have read before, some I have seen on Ray Bradbury Theater. I realized that watching a Ray Bradbury adaptation is like taking a snowglobe and smashing it to bits and displaying it as a sculpture.