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  <title><![CDATA[The Golden Apples of the Sun]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of &lt;I&gt;outr&#201;&lt;/I&gt; fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centuries great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1953</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ray Bradbury]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed most of the stories in this book, particularly;[return][return]&quot;The Murderer,&quot; which I found to be so appropriate to life today! This is one of few stories that hasn't got an initial publication date noted, but I guess it would be early 1950. Even though the technology that drive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44264042">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 03 22:03:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best collections of American short stories, even if many of them are technically science-fiction.  They still have a deeper sense of the struggles of humanity, regardless of setting - which, perhaps, is that makes them even more powerful and hammers the point even deeper.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great science fiction.  Great speculative fiction.  Great American fiction, period.  Bradbury wrote a slew of classic stories; this is the cream of the crop.  GOLDEN APPLES is another reason I'm a writer today.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I once said that Bradbury was &quot;trash, but exquisite trash. Like the pizza boxes and soda cans of the gods&quot;. (Is it okay to quote one's self? I'm okay with it) I stand by the statement. He's good not great, although I think back to Something Wicked This Way Comes and some of the stories in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70201038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32841169">
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    <body><![CDATA[To my mind, there are two great stories here.  They both provide insight and emotional resonance that have stayed with me since reading them, and rank with the best of Bradbury’s other, phenomenal, work.  More on them later!<br/><br/>By way of contrast, “In The Meadow” features a watchman wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32841169">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was 17 years old Ray Bradbury was my favourite writer and *The Golden Apples of the Sun* was my favourite book of his. Even then I knew that the very best Bradbury stories('Homecoming', 'The Scythe', 'Kaleidoscope', etc) could be found in his other collections, but *Apples* had a kind of magi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30764332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72865869">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy of this is a very old one. Inherited from my dad's stuff, this is a collection of short stories by Bradbury. One of my favorites of the short stories is the April Witch - which tackled unrequited love. A two-page short story, yet it left me crying. Beautiful &amp; enchanted.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mixed set of stories it seems. Some were a little &quot;eh&quot;, some were really fascinating, and some were so great you really wished they had their own novel. My favorite was about the lighthouse, I thought it was exquisitely done.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 25 07:37:34 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the first short (very short) story last night.  It knocked my socks off. Legendary Bradbury from 1952, writing about 2052.  When I read collections like this, I usually allow some time bewteen stories to let them &quot;settle in.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In another book of Bradbury's short stories, this is based on the pleasures of life, again incorperating some of his ideas from previous books.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Les pommes d’or du soleil est un recueil de nouvelles de <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Ray Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a> qui rassemble des travaux très proches des gens. Je ne suis pas fan du genre (les nouvelles) mais je dois bien reconnaître que <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Bradbury" title="Bradbury">Bradbury</a>, étant un excellent écrivain, maitrise parfaitement ce genre d’écriture, et nous sort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26192948">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is amasing, particularly for us short-attention span types.   <br/><br/>Is a collection of futuristic fiction published in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.   Apart from being really good storytelling, it is interesting to see just how RIGHT he is about some things (as he is in the short story 'The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20366543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10746429">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1957</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read Bradbury's short stories in my mid-teens, when they were, in fact, almost brand new.  He made me want to become a writer.  In our family, we still quote from his stories.  My favorite has always been &quot;The Pedestrian,&quot; a man who prefers to walk in the freshness of the night air...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10746429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33494578">
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most memorable story in this collection, read in high school, is &quot;A Sound of Thunder&quot;.  I had actually read it in Michigan years before, sitting in the living room at night on the wicker couch across from the fireplace.  Although I can find no reference to its publication in such, I am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33494578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50026817">
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    <body><![CDATA[Some body; not very much soul.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great and weird short stories!! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>20p Bookshelf</em>.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I'm currently re-reading this book for the Nth time! This is Bradbury at his short story-writing best. Among my favorites in this collection are &quot;A Sound Of Thunder&quot; (upon which the 2007 movie was based), &quot;The Murderer&quot;, &quot;Hail And Farewell&quot;, and the title story, which ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16014235">more...</a>]]></body>
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