Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children's minds...The children thought lions, and there were lions...-From The Veldt by Ray BradburyBy turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a...
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Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children's minds...The children thought lions, and there were lions...-From The Veldt by Ray BradburyBy turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.Andrew Lam's The Palmist performed by James Naughton A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boyRay Bradbury's The Veldt performed by Stephen Colbert A room which can take you anywhere in the world - sometimes with dangerous consequencesW.W. Jacobs'The Monkey's Paw performed by John Lithgow A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powersSaki's The Occasional Garden performed by Daniel Gerroll If you can't grow a garden; poof! - you can rent oneDonald Barthelme's The Balloon performed by Maria Tucci...
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781934033135 (1934033138)
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Symphony Space
Minutes: 3
Edition language: English
Overall, an interesting set of short stories, all with some speculative fiction aspect to them. Aside from the two well-loved classics (Bradbury’s The Veldt and Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw), they were new to me and mostly pretty good, but not my kind of thing. They were the kind of short stories that a...
My two-star rating for this is not so much a reflection on the writing as on the the narration and format. The stories, for the most part, are quite good (though some moreso than others, of course). Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for listening to this collection from the "Selected Sh...
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