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I’m always unsure how to rate Ray Bradbury’s work. I certainly have to be in the right frame of mind to read it.
Because it’s challenging. It’s honest, brutal, hopeful, thought provoking, sad, mysterious and wonderfully poetic.
This collection of story stories was fascinating. His ability to take a variety of characters and themes and work them the way he does is amazing.
Because it’s challenging. It’s honest, brutal, hopeful, thought provoking, sad, mysterious and wonderfully poetic.
This collection of story stories was fascinating. His ability to take a variety of characters and themes and work them the way he does is amazing.
Nov 07, 2013
Tom
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it was ok
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I wish I'd enjoyed this collection of short stories more as Ray Bradbury is such an iconic figure in science fiction literature. These stories, linked together by the title character who has a body covered with clairvoyant tattoos, explore issues that seem close to Bradbury's heart, as they are oft repeated. Book burning, censorship and the value of fiction to culture are themes that crop up in several stories. The stories feature lots of rockets visiting planets in our solar system that somehow
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