by Giuseppe Lippi, Ray Bradbury
bookshelves: fraudio, mystery-thriller, summer-2012, re-read, books-about-books-and-book-shops, noir Read from March 02, 2009 to June 07, 2012 Re-read In Honour:Ray Bradbury, author of science fiction classics Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, dies in Los Angeles, his daughter confirms. ...
hooray for writers who write one book completely different from the rest of their ouevre. Haruki Murakami's 'Hard-boiled Wonderland,' a 1990s 'semiotics/akademickant' inflected surreal piece; Ray Bradbury's 'Death is a Lonely Business." no more martians, no more talking squids in outer-space; a spar...
Sometimes Bradbury's writing is lyrical; sometimes it's just precious. (And sometimes it's just the wrong word, Ray, unless you're writing nonsense poetry.) Once I got into the flow of it, however, I was less bothered by his style and enjoyed the story a great deal. The unnamed narrator is a young...
Re-read In Honour: Ray Bradbury, author of science fiction classics Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, dies in Los Angeles, his daughter confirms. 6/6/12Home. Narrated by Robert O'Keefe. Unabridged.Craftsmanship indeed. Scott Joplin 1907
Writerly, well-written, and about writing. Also about murder, loneliness, social change, urban decay, old movies, and poetry.
Bradbury does hardboiled with a melancholy tone.
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