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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Start date: March 1, 2016

Finish date: March 31, 2016

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: March 2016 New School Group Read
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Jan 25, 2011 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

Whether you read SF or not, Ray Bradbury writes beautifully. His style is dreamy and lyrical, satirical and funny, and at times creepy as hell.
This book is interconnected short stories, rather than a novel in the traditional sense. It describes the imagined human colonization of Mars. Some parts are extremely dated: all the men smoke cigars and shoot things; the women bake gingerbread. I guess cell phones and YouTube were beyond the realm of
possibility in 1950, too; Bradbury had people still usi ...more

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May 16, 2015 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: short-stories, fiction-20th-century, read-2015, audio-books, science-fiction, american-fiction

From Open Culture:
Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, contributed to science fiction a highly distinctive voice; the now departed Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek‘s Mr. Spock, also contributed to science fiction a highly distinctive voice. In the mid-seventies, a pair of record albums came out that together offered a truly singular listening experience: the voice of Bradbury in the voice of Nimoy. 1975’s The Martian Chronicles and 1976’s The Illustrated Man contain Nimoy’s ...more

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Jun 23, 2023 Julie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi, did-not-finish

I give up. This is the third Ray Bradbury book I have read and I've disliked them all. Not going to waste any more precious reading time trying to force myself to like him. I know he is a classic sci-fi writer and many, many people love him but I am not one of those people. I finished the other two books - Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes - but this book I decided to cut my losses after 50 pages.

I felt like I was reading scripts of The Twilight Zone tv show. Which is ok to wat ...more

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Oct 14, 2021 Gary Lyons rated it did not like it

Ugh! I realize this is a classic of scifi, but one has to wonder why. The stories don't flow that well together, and I found most that I read boring. I only made it halfway. 😒 ...more

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