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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is, by far, my favorite collection of [a:Ray Bradbury|1630|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190744775p2/1630.jpg]'s short stories. [a:Ray Bradbury|1630|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190744775p2/1630.jpg] is a master of fantasy, of sci-fi, and of touching the dreams and the sweet innocence of childhood. He is a wonderful writer, a poetic genius, and stark reminder of how thoroughly writing can shape the mind and pluck the heart. [a:Ray Bradbury|1630|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190744775p2/1630.jpg] is a genius of the short story whose grandeur has only ever been matched by perhaps [a:Jonathan Carroll|23704|Jonathan Carroll|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1222900262p2/23704.jpg], if even that. [a:Ray Bradbury|1630|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190744775p2/1630.jpg] is also a genius of horror. [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1261866457p2/3389.jpg] has said that [b:October Country|93251|The October Country|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266470604s/93251.jpg|1046266] is the best book that showcases this often-forgotten talent of [a:Ray Bradbury|1630|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190744775p2/1630.jpg], but I defy him to say that [b:Long After Midnight|94300|Long After Midnight|Iris Johansen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320449781s/94300.jpg|2744509] is far better. This collection showcases the full talent that [a:Ray Bradbury|1630|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190744775p2/1630.jpg] had, as well as the versatility of his style. The horror stories are chilling, the sci-fi stories touching and full of literary wonder. If you've not read this collection yet - read it. You will not be disappointed. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is offered a possibly Mephistophelean proposal by which he might gain a perfect love and a magical immunity... A jealous husband who orders an exact replica of his unfaithful wife from an android manufacturing company (purpose: murder) runs afoul of the compassionate new "live robot" law... At forty-eight, seized with an overwhelming desire to settle an old score, a man journeys back into the past under the spell of his "utterly perfect, incredibly delightful idea," only to recoil in stunned disbelief when he confronts, at last, his former tormentor... Bradbury's imaginative field is boundless. In this book, his stories carry us from the cozy familiarity of the small-town America we lived in in Dandelion Wine to the frozen desert and double moon that have been part of our interior landscape since The Martian Chronicles. His characters range from the "ordinary"-a rookie cop, an unhappy wife on vacation in Mexico, an old parish priest hearing confession-to the quite extraordinary: the parrot to whom Ernest Hemingway confided the plot of his last, greatest, never-put-down-on-paper novel, and a woman who, in New York City in the summer of 1974, hangs out a sign reading "Melissa Toad, Witch." Fantastic or conventional, chillingly suspenseful or hauntingly nostalgic, each of these stories has that aura of the unexpected combined with the special ring of absolute rightness that is brilliantly, uniquely Bradbury. Track List for Long After Midnight: Disc 1 "The Blue Bottle"-Track 1 "One Timeless Spring"-Track 10 "The Parrot Who Met Papa"-Track 16 Disc 2 "The Burning Man"-Track 2 "A Piece of Wood"-Track 9 "The Messiah"-Track 13 "G.B.S.-Mark V"-Track 21 Disc 3 "The Utterly Perfect Murder"-Track 3 "Punishment Without Crime"-Track 11 "Getting Through Sunday Somehow"-Track 19 Disc 4 "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds"-Track 1 "Interval in Sunlight"-Track 11 Disc 5 "A Story of Love"-Track 9 "The Wish"-Track 17 Disc 6 "Forever and the Earth"-Track 2 "The Better Part of Wisdom"-Track 17 Disc 7 "Darling Adolf"-Track 4 "The Miracles of Jamie"-Track 17 Disc 8 "The October Game"-Track 1 "The Pumpernickel"-Track 8 "Long After Midnight"-Track 11 "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You "-Track 16 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Unfortunately, many of the rest of the stories didn't resonate with me. Perhaps I read this collection too close to The Martian Chronicles? I couldn't help but compare the two and The Chronicles always came out ahead.
I'm still happy that I read this collection, as my goal is to read all of Ray Bradbury's work. I guess not all of his stories are going to knock the ball out of the park, but a mediocre Bradbury story is still better than a good one from most other authors.
Recommended for fans of science fiction, dark fiction and short stories. ( )