by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury passed away Tuesday night, and his grandson had this to say about the author's work: "...his stories lifted people up and saved them from lonely summers. Who among us was never buried deep in a Bradbury story, lost in his meticulously yet effortlessly crafted metaphor?" (i09)In four pag...
'I think the sun is a flower,That blooms for just one hour.'Fabulous little short story. There have been numerous comparisons to [b:Ponies|10452275|Ponies|Kij Johnson|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PbcL4-DqL._SL75_.jpg|15268747] which I believe are a fair comparison, although I didn't enjoy...
I read this several years ago, but it is just beautiful and so, so sad. I actually love the rain, so rain all the time actually sounds like a lovely thing to me. But, I know, not everyone feels as I do. It's a heartbreaking story. I'm not really a sci-fi person, so much of Bradbury's work is simply ...
This is one of those stories that makes you want to destroy things... and by "destroy" I mean "kill." I cannot begin to tell you how much I HATE this story. Okay... I'm lying. As you can see by my rating, it's an amazing short story. It teaches you so many things! It's such a short story you wonder,...
...yes, I remember now. I read this story many years ago, when I was still just a child. I was probably younger than even the kids in this story who are all nine. I remember reading this because of the impact it left on me for the rest of my life. It's a story that is one of the only ones I remember...
I think one reason Bradbury really grabbed me when I was young was that he often wrote about kids. Horrible, selfish, vicious little kids.
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