by Ray Bradbury
Such a good short story! Listened to it on Radio: http://www.selectedshorts.org/2013/08/dreams-and-schemes/
Just listened to this being read by Stephen Colbert. The story gets 3 stars, the narration 5 stars. I'll split the difference and give it 4 stars. As well as a strong recommendation. LISTEN here: http://www.selectedshorts.org/onair/Worth it for Colbert's voices alone!
When you read a short story like this one, there's no mistaking the reasons Bradbury is regarded as a master storyteller. His stories are at their most powerful when he's writing of children, as here, and such as Dandelion Wine, or All Summer In a Day. He creates a sense of inevitability, even resig...
Read this in high school for an interdisciplinary English/Physical Science course. Frightening. Handsome Boyfriend is egging me to get an 80" flat screen but I may make him read this first.
This is a story that creeps me out after lo,these many years. Kids! Ammirite?
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