The Illustrated Man
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002S4SQHU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 361 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Intriguing compilation" according to Marissa. This book was an easy read that left me contemplating at the end of each story. This is compilation of short stories involving the future and all tied together by being written in moving picture form across the flesh of the Illustrated Man. Each story is unique and teaches a lesson about the human spirit - some of these lessons are a brutal reflection of the negati. Did Not Disappoint! First, the cover was much different than the picture listed. But it proved to be a great thing, the cover I received was really bright and it showed the tattoos on the back of a turned away man. Perfectly fitting for the book. As far as the content, let me tell you this : I read the first few pages and told my husband how great it was. He then took it, began readin. "Bradbury at his brilliant, sad, thought-provoking, poetic best!" according to Beth J. Hughes. One of my favorite authors, Bradbury is like none other. I read this book of short stories in my teens, and find it now, in my middle age years, to be much richer and more poetic than I did then. A must read for any sci-fi fan. Though the references to the 1990's and obvious (though unintended, I'm sure) sexism may cause a cringe or two for some, I suggest reading
What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater. In an in
Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blacknessthe sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowherethe pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and mov