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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller
informative
sad
fast-paced
3.75
A detailed account of Ray's publishing history and creative process. If you're researching Bradbury this will be a useful book.
Sam Weller refuses to stay objective and as such discussion of Bradbury's work stays shallow (beyond shouting the word nostalgia repetitively), and the only analysis of his impact on pop culture and on science fiction or literature in general is buried under a mountain of glib assurances that the impact was huge and wonderful and very large and no more questions, please! If Bradbury did something off color or just downright dirty, Sam Weller is quick to make excuses for him, much like Brian Jay Jone's Jim Henson bio. The book lost points for that.
Sam Weller refuses to stay objective and as such discussion of Bradbury's work stays shallow (beyond shouting the word nostalgia repetitively), and the only analysis of his impact on pop culture and on science fiction or literature in general is buried under a mountain of glib assurances that the impact was huge and wonderful and very large and no more questions, please! If Bradbury did something off color or just downright dirty, Sam Weller is quick to make excuses for him, much like Brian Jay Jone's Jim Henson bio. The book lost points for that.