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| Original Title: | The Vintage Bradbury |
| ISBN: | 0679729461 (ISBN13: 9780679729464) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ray Bradbury
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.33 | 2001 Users | 87 Reviews
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The author of Fahrenehit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, offers a personal selection of his best stories, featuring "Dandelion Wine," "The Illustrated Man," "The Veldt," "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," and twenty other classics.American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez, Ray Bradbury is a writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautiful white suit that turns six down-and-out Chicanos into their ideal selves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who lives in terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fiction writer might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradbury can tell us how the Martians see it--and the dreamlike visitors from Planet Earth.
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| Title | : | The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction |
| Author | : | Ray Bradbury |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | July 14th 1990 by Vintage (first published January 1st 1965) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.33 From 2001 Users | 87 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction
I really enjoyed this. I'm not even much of a SciFi nerd (well like, I enjoy SciFi but nowhere near to the point of hardcore actual SciFi fans) and I really liked most of the stories in here. It was a good sidetrack from the stuff I usually read. I'm not even usually a big short-story reader, so this was new for me and I wasn't sure whether I would like it. And, I did. So I guess I'd say take the gamble and check it out because Ray Bradbury is a good writer and has his accolades and reputationAfter reading Fahrenheit 451, I was decided; Ray Bradbury is my new favourite author. After scrolling through his quotes on this grand ol' site, I found that I loved a couple that came from Dandelion wine. ("I'm alive!") I went to my school's library and sought out the book, stumbling across his collected works instead. Even better! Even more Bradbury than I had anticipated.I'll admit, some of the stories disturbed me. The frequent murderous endings were not what I expected after the downright
What can you even say about Ray Bradbury? He's a legend for a reason. His imagination is still mind-blowing to this day. The way he can write the fantastic and the frightening, the surreal and the serious, and have us all relate to characters even as they're going through the most bizarre experiences.I think all of these were new stories for me except for "The Veldt". "There Will Come Soft Rains" also seemed familiar. As for all the others, they were all fantastic. They chilled me, made me
Back in the day when books were hard to come by and Bookmooch was my only lifeline, I used to be such a fan of Ray Bradbury's short story collections such as The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Driving Blind, The October Country, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Quicker Than the Eye, I Sing the Body Electric, The Martian Chronicles. I have since grudgingly rephrased that sentiment. Some (italics) of Bradbury's short stories are wonderful, and will forever remain special and unforgettable to me.
I was already a big fan of Ray Bradbury when I found this collection of his "best" works. Although I'd read many of them before, I reread most and quite enjoyed the rest.
Think Black Mirror but better because it's a book I first heard about Bradbury from a friend who liked his more famous novel Fahrenheit 451. I decided to read this book first to get a feel if I'd like his writing style. A lot of people describe him in different ways - some people say he's a science fiction writer, others (like on the back of this book) say he's "the cousin of magical realists." I'd definitely agree with science fiction bit and after reading this collection of short stories, I'd
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