The Martian Chronicles in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

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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Aug 16, 2011 Katie rated it liked it

This had a lot more poetry and wonderment in it than most things I give three stars, but somehow, though parts of it are breathtaking, I felt that parts of it were beautiful and profound and other parts slowed the inexorable march towards oblivion and rebirth that I think Bradbury was going for. Also, even though Bradbury is a mad wizard who wields words like magic, sometimes I think his prose is too much and I often disagree with him philosophically. Parts of this book, particularly the parts w ...more

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Apr 26, 2017 Keith rated it did not like it

Shelves: classics, science-fiction, worst

Well I hated this book. It is basically a collection of short stories that for the most part aren't entertaining and were boring. I'm sure there are plenty of people who found some deep meaning but, like many books considered classics, it royally sucked. If you like going to the Museum of Modern art and staring at some basketballs floating in a half-filled aquarium, then maybe you would like this book. If you watched Mad Max: Fury Road and thought, wow, this is art. Then you should read this boo ...more

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