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mpod's review
2.0
If you are at all interested in reading Bradbury's short fiction, I highly recommended reading the original collections and not this one. Books like The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine are a series of short stories that are thematically linked and have so much more resonance when read in the intended order. Also, Bradbury has several different writing personalities - sometimes sentimental, sometimes disturbing, sometimes pure literary - and it simply doesn't work tossing them all together in this way.
Skip this collection; read The Martian Chronicles, October Country, Illustrated Man, Body Electric, etc. instead.
Skip this collection; read The Martian Chronicles, October Country, Illustrated Man, Body Electric, etc. instead.
seuknitcat's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
dbpatterson's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Nobody does it like Bradbury. This short-story collection is a must have for ANY library. "Zero Hero" is among my favorites.
abomine's review
3.0
It seems that Ray Bradbury and I disagree as to what his best short stories are. Some of these stories I had never read before, and were pretty interesting to read, but many of them were quite forgettable (at least in my opinion), even if they were beautifully written. I love Bradbury's writing style.
I'm also doing some spring cleaning, and had to make some pretty tough decisions as to which books I'm keeping, and which ones are going to new homes. This book ended up in my "To Loving New Home" pile.
I think that next time, I'll just check out one of his more famous anthologies, like [b:The Illustrated Man|24830|The Illustrated Man|Ray Bradbury|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1374049820s/24830.jpg|1065861] or [b:The October Country|93251|The October Country|Ray Bradbury|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348069052s/93251.jpg|1046266].
I'm also doing some spring cleaning, and had to make some pretty tough decisions as to which books I'm keeping, and which ones are going to new homes. This book ended up in my "To Loving New Home" pile.
I think that next time, I'll just check out one of his more famous anthologies, like [b:The Illustrated Man|24830|The Illustrated Man|Ray Bradbury|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1374049820s/24830.jpg|1065861] or [b:The October Country|93251|The October Country|Ray Bradbury|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348069052s/93251.jpg|1046266].
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