false 24830 46 That <I>The Illustrated Man</I> has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was <I>Dark Carnival</I>, later reworked into <I>The October Country</I>), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. <I>--Stanley Wiater</I> 1065861 book 1951 The Illustrated Man (Voyager Classics) total:5544|5:1981|4:2263|3:1137|2:148|1:15| 5544 22679 6843 322 4 2 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Thu Jul 26 12:52:14 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 12:59:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Sep 14 12:15:40 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 12:20:42 -0700 2007
This is a collection of short stories, so it's one of the easier Bradbury reads. Good before-bed book since you can stop after one of the stories has ended.

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BUT OH WELL.

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One man walked b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 18 14:56:02 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 00:56:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:21:14 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:00:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:41:46 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 05:37:02 -0700 2009 NOw, I didn't know that most of them would be about space explorers and Mars and rocket rides. But Ray Bradbury didn't write sci-fi stories with highly complicated technobabble. He wrote about the characters and their drama. Maybe ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:54:11 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 05:21:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sat May 05 07:53:03 -0700 2007 Sat May 05 07:55:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 07:20:56 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 07:20:56 -0700 2009 One The Illustrated Man<i/> should be read by every science fiction fan. Bradbury covers all the basic science fiction topics: time travel, cutting edge technology of the future and void, dark space. Some of the stories are set in war time and most of t...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 23 20:21:18 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 20:29:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 22:58:50 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 13:20:20 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 14:42:03 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 14:44:30 -0700 2007 5 0 true true Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:01:58 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 11:24:43 -0700 2009
Summary for my own mental record (I'm doing most of this from memory, so if some of my details are wrong, please forgive me. I read this in chunks over the last f...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 18:26:39 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 18:39:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 01:34:12 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 06:54:07 -0700 2009 The ones that were used in the movie, not as much.
I really loved the movie. I saw it right after it came out.
'The Veldt', one of the stories in the movie, should be subtitled 'The Bad Seeds' (grin).
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I liked the book, a bunch of short stories, all about time travel, or rocketships, or other planets,...more...]]>