Adam's review
The Illustrated Man (Vintage Bantam, #1282)
by Ray Bradbury
Adam's review
The Illustrated Man (Vintage Bantam, #1282) by Ray Bradbury
Adam's review
rating:
Bradbury's stories come off as a sort of literary twilight zone. Same cold-war paranoia, the same wierdnesses, the same sort of freudian imagery. The quality of the stories are usually good to high (there's a couple of flubs, but they're forgivable.) Unfortunately science fiction does not always age as gracefully as other forms of literature. Bradbury has a way of getting preachy from time to time, and his set-ups are sometimes painfully obvious. Also he can be a little into schtick (I mean the story where the literary figures live on mars--just seems--I don't know---empty). Why do I give it even three stars then? Because it's always interesting, the stories are compulsively readable, and he's among the first to do this.
