A review by alibrareads
The Machineries of Joy, by Ray Bradbury
3.0
This anthology started off pretty strong, plus these were all easier to parse than other books by Bradbury I've read: not nearly as much purple prose, but there are definitely hints of it.
I really liked the first two stories "The Machineries of Joy" and "The One Who Waits", also really liked the fourth one "The Vacation", then it was on and off of which ones I actively enjoyed: "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar", "Almost The End of the World" (moral of the story is: TV bad, I guess lol), "And So Died Riabouchinska".
So 6 out of 21 I actively liked, the others were just okay or even a little boring. Aside from the very first one which was contemporary, the ones I liked were either sci-fi, horror, or dystopian. There were some others that fit those categories that I didn't take to as much, but most of the ones I didn't care for could be argued as being contemporary.
Not really sure what else to say about this! It was very okay. There were a few cool stories in here, but plenty of them were forgettable in my opinion, and it's a weird mish-mash of different genres.
Check out my YouTube review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIz8QlS2jw
I really liked the first two stories "The Machineries of Joy" and "The One Who Waits", also really liked the fourth one "The Vacation", then it was on and off of which ones I actively enjoyed: "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar", "Almost The End of the World" (moral of the story is: TV bad, I guess lol), "And So Died Riabouchinska".
So 6 out of 21 I actively liked, the others were just okay or even a little boring. Aside from the very first one which was contemporary, the ones I liked were either sci-fi, horror, or dystopian. There were some others that fit those categories that I didn't take to as much, but most of the ones I didn't care for could be argued as being contemporary.
Not really sure what else to say about this! It was very okay. There were a few cool stories in here, but plenty of them were forgettable in my opinion, and it's a weird mish-mash of different genres.
Check out my YouTube review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIz8QlS2jw