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karenholmes's review
5.0
Reworking some of the stories, and trying to descifer Bradbury's style. As a need and a crave for really good writing.
kevinmccarrick's review
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
p2rdik's review against another edition
3.0
I love Ray Bradbury’s work, especially his short stories, but don’t think this is the best display of his work. Stories that appear here and also on other collections have that creeping quality of anything can happen and it will, but you don’t know when. So better hold your breath. And the rest are kind of dull. Maybe some tryouts as he did use parts of his short stories as parts and/or beginnings of longer tales. Not everything makes the cut.
The given copy had the worst layout but with cool illustrations. So a 3 out of 5 in that sense as well.
The given copy had the worst layout but with cool illustrations. So a 3 out of 5 in that sense as well.
patches7o9's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
rainjrop's review
4.0
Actual rating: 4.5. Favorite stories: Embroidery, The Big Black and White Game, The Great Wide World Over There, Sun and Shadow, The Meadow, A Sound of Thunder, Come into My Cellar
jenn_geeks_out's review
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
beillumined's review
4.0
Another great set of stories by one of my favorite authors, The Golden Apples of the Sun contains a smattering of stories, some I've already read from other collections, and some fun new surprises. I especially love that the copy I got from paperbackswap (here's a good plug for you, if you haven't checked out http://www.paperbackswap.com yet, you should) is so old I couldn't even figure out the ISBN number. So classic!
I think my favorite story in the collection is The Murderer. In a previous story, The Wilderness, written in 1952, Bradbury missed the mark in his "futuristic" assumption that we would be living on Mars by 2003. However, in The Murderer, the characters live in a world surrounded by technology. Wrist radios, houses that talk, etc. The main character becomes so overwhelmed, he begins destroying all the technology around him and only finds peace when it is all gone, but everyone thinks he is crazy for it.
"Suppose you tell me when you first began to hate the telephone."
"It frightened me as a child, Uncle of mine called it the Ghost Machine. Voices without bodies. Scared the living hell out of me. Later in life, I was never comfortable. Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through the wires. If it didn't want to, it just drained your personality away until what slipped through at the other end was some cold fish of a voice all steel, copper, plastic, no warmth, no reality."
Sounds familiar, right?
I think my favorite story in the collection is The Murderer. In a previous story, The Wilderness, written in 1952, Bradbury missed the mark in his "futuristic" assumption that we would be living on Mars by 2003. However, in The Murderer, the characters live in a world surrounded by technology. Wrist radios, houses that talk, etc. The main character becomes so overwhelmed, he begins destroying all the technology around him and only finds peace when it is all gone, but everyone thinks he is crazy for it.
"Suppose you tell me when you first began to hate the telephone."
"It frightened me as a child, Uncle of mine called it the Ghost Machine. Voices without bodies. Scared the living hell out of me. Later in life, I was never comfortable. Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through the wires. If it didn't want to, it just drained your personality away until what slipped through at the other end was some cold fish of a voice all steel, copper, plastic, no warmth, no reality."
Sounds familiar, right?
xuaeyaqonavosoi's review
2.0
to juz kolejny zbior opowiadan tego autora, jaki czytam i juz mnie to troche zmeczylo. podobnie jak w czlowieku ilustrowanym opowiadania słabe przeplataja sie z naprawde dobrymi, ale mam wrazenie, ze tym razem tych dobrych jest jakos mniej. kazde z nich ma swoj urok, ale jednak kroniki marsjanskie przebijaja wszystko.