Even though I enjoyed this collection of short stories, I didn’t like it as much as [book: The Martian Chronicles]. It would probably be the other way around though had I read [book: The Illustrated Man] first, just because I’m getting a little overloaded with stories about rocket ships and space me...
This collection of classic sci-fi stories from Ray Bradbury is a little dated, with rocket ships and Martians and a 1950s sensibility (and sex roles). There's no real unifying theme, despite the "illustrated man" who bears each tale as a tattoo on his body. Most of the stories are dark and more psyc...
Mostly solid collection of short stories, very - and I mean - very loosely based around a sad circus freak's tattoos. Bradbury is not a great writer, but he's very entertaining and has a wonderful imagination. Reading his stuff is like sitting by the fire at the knee of an old, eccentric grandparent...
Ray Bradbury is the only writer I can say with certainty has not so much changed my life as made it what it is. I'm scarcely the first or last to say that, and most definitely not the most important. Neil Gaiman began his acknowledgement to Bradbury thus:I can imagine all sorts of worlds and places,...
ETA I am 28 mins into the film and there is a section that strongly resembles The Veldt short story.---I have just listened to this tale and went mooching around for the film, which I found. Now to sit back and enjoy.The Illustrated Man (1969)A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos...
I am a very big fan of Ray Bradbury. He has an incredible imagination. He inspires me as a writer and a reader. I loved that this book has stories within a story. What an interesting idea of having a tattooed man as the "Scheherazade" in this story. The narrator is the body of a man who has tattoos...
One word pretty much sums up the stories in this collection: fun! Classic sci-fi seems to be the only kind really palatable to me anymore. To think that most of these stories were written and copyrighted in the 1950s only shows that Bradbury was way ahead of his time. Stories that especially stick...
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