smileysunflower 's review for:

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

3.0

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Some of these stories are really good, in particular I liked "The Earth Men" "The Martian" "The Long Years" and "There Will Come Soft Rains" (the latter of which the only story I've read prior to picking up the Martian Chronicles) but a lot of them just were... eh. I know this is a fix-up novel so it's not quite a novel or a short story collection, all of the stories were written at separate times, but the lack of continuity sometimes really frustrated me. Mostly because I could feel some continuity, with previous events and characters before referenced at times, so when there was an element that felt inconsistent with the rest of the stories it took me out.