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margaret_lea's review against another edition
3.0
2.5 stars, because sad endings aren’t my cup o’ tea. It had a lot of good lessons you could draw from it, but left me a kind of a cliffhanger. I wish Ray Bradbury could write us a sequel.
mewinig7's review against another edition
5.0
The ones I’d consider 5 stars:
In a Season of Calm Weather — my personal favorite, with a lovely artist who can’t help but create
The Town Where No One Got Off — atmospheric and creepy
A Scent of Sarsaparilla — frightening in its loveliness, and vice versa
The First Night of Lent — CHARACTERS
The Time of Going Away — the right amount of legend with the right amount of realness
All Summer In a Day — the most beautiful of the space stories
Pillar of Fire — bad people doing bad things, therefore very enjoyable
Zero Hour — always listen to your kids, folks
The Man — unexpectedly intriguing
The Trolley — nostalgia in every carefully painted leaf, and I love it dearly
Icarus Montgolfier Wright — so many of the greatest artists are obsessed with flight. This story feels like listening to them all
In a Season of Calm Weather — my personal favorite, with a lovely artist who can’t help but create
The Town Where No One Got Off — atmospheric and creepy
A Scent of Sarsaparilla — frightening in its loveliness, and vice versa
The First Night of Lent — CHARACTERS
The Time of Going Away — the right amount of legend with the right amount of realness
All Summer In a Day — the most beautiful of the space stories
Pillar of Fire — bad people doing bad things, therefore very enjoyable
Zero Hour — always listen to your kids, folks
The Man — unexpectedly intriguing
The Trolley — nostalgia in every carefully painted leaf, and I love it dearly
Icarus Montgolfier Wright — so many of the greatest artists are obsessed with flight. This story feels like listening to them all
jessica_sim's review against another edition
5.0
Some of these stories are just soul grippingly good (majority)
Some are very hard to read.
Some you forget right away (minority).
Some are very hard to read.
Some you forget right away (minority).
nsv's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.25
oceanagottareademall's review against another edition
5.0
A poignant story about bullying. This is a great short story to read with students.
wistyallgood's review against another edition
4.0
I remember reading this many years back in school, and I was just so sad and unsatisfied. But that doesn't mean it wasn't good!
trish204's review against another edition
4.0
Rain. Water. Here on Earth it means life. Without it, there would be no forests, not grass, no nothing.
On Venus (the Venus in this story anyway) there is constant rain and wind and thunderstorms and all the horrible consequences such as floods from it. It rains for seven years without end, then you get two hours of sun. That's it.
So what would that do to humans? Living in such an environment?
Well, I guess it's not even the rain itself that is the problem, but monotony in general and a complete lack of sunlight. Yes, we can take supplements with our food to keep our bodies "healthy" but even I who do not like hot summers would get grumpy without the sun.
So this is the story of humans living on Venus and a class of schoolchildren who actively experience sun for the first time. And it's the story of one of those children who is different because she was born and lived on Earth.
It's a story about longing, cruelty, depression, sadness and it makes the reader appreciate the perfect conditions we are living in here on our Blue Marble. It's also heart-breaking.
Once again, Ray Bradbury shows that he is a master storyteller who doesn't need a lot of text to drive home a point. Still, I can't give this the full 5 stars - for starters, the typos were off-putting; but it's also that for all the feelings I had during only 4 pages of story, I know short stories that made me care (and cry) even more!
veroverona's review against another edition
dark
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.5
sardonic_writer's review against another edition
3.0
It's got a really interesting premise that Bradbury has explored in at least one other story ("The Long Rain") but he doesn't do enough with it here, and the payoff isn't much. "The Long Rain" is a more complete look at the premise, and is much better.