A review by apollo0325
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

adventurous challenging fast-paced

3.5

It’s a fairly solid short story collection with some good, some middling, and few that weren’t necessarily bad but didn’t really add much to the collection as a whole. This was my first exposure to Ray Bradbury, and I think he does an excellent job of describing environments and physicality especially in The Long Rain.

I’m looking forward to trying more Bradbury after this one. Shout out to Derek for lending me his really cool, older paperback copy.

My favorite stories in no particular order:

The Rocket Man
The Fire Balloons
The Long Rain
The City
The Rocket / Zero Hour (I found these two to almost be thematically similar in the ideas of imagination and parental guidance/influence)