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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Start date: September 2, 2013

Finish date: September 2, 2013

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Jul 27, 2014 Colleen C rated it it was amazing

The beauty and simplicity of the stories that make up this lovely little book are completely refreshing. "The Martian Chronicles" is a series of short stories that were strung into a novel for publication purposes. The short stories and vignettes (sometimes just a few paragraphs) create a beautiful jigsaw puzzle that describes the American colonization of Mars. However, this book is not about Mars, but rather a blank slate setting for human nature to manifest through Bradbury's lyrical, thoughtf ...more

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Jul 01, 2013 Tiffani rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2013, classics, lit-explorer-2013, science-fiction

I'm not sure how to describe The Martian Chronicles, but I'll give it a shot. It is a series of short stories set on Mars. Earthlings went to Mars to explore and to get away from the war and destruction that was the Earth. The first visit to the Mars doesn't go well. Neither does the second, the third, or the fourth. Still, they keep coming. Mars seems to be a lot like Earth, or maybe that's just how Earthlings perceive it. Mars feels like home, and it doesn't.

"Science ran too far ahead of us t ...more

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Apr 05, 2015 Kaz rated it liked it

I don't know that I'd recommend it as there were stories I couldn't bring myself to finish but then there were others that I'd read again in a heartbeat. ...more

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Nov 09, 2012 Brandon Peterson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction

Wow.. wasn't feeling this one so much at first, but after the first third or so I was hooked. I haven't thought this much about a book post-read in a while. ...more

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