A review by buttchinbookchin
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury

5.0

This book is what sold me on short stories. While I would not recommend this anthology for a first-time reader of Bradbury's works, as their anachronistic presentation of stories apart from their larger subtext is confusing, it does portray them as the standalone masterpieces they are. I spent a month reading this book two years ago, and the stories are still as vivid in my mind as they were then. Although these stories may appear as science fiction at face value, Bradbury proves himself to be a true master of depicting the chaos and decadence of the time of the Silent generation, with the ceaseless war and omnipresent terror of nuclear Armageddon.

Be sure to read Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway before this. There's a lot of allusion to them you won't catch, and they're what started me down the rabbit hole.