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Fantastic Tales of Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury reads a dozen of his best-known stories, and two excerpts from _Dandelion Wine_. While there are other stories of his I like better than e.g., "The Smile", Bradbury certainly has more experience reading his stories and (presumably) chose the stories that worked best. Bradbury does a great job reading these stories -- *not* because he's a great voice actor, but because he has insights into the stories that (literally) no one else has. I know these stories fairly well, but Bradbury's reading often made me see them in a different light -- particularly "John Huff's Leavetaking", from _Dandelion Wine_, the ending of which I had misinterpreted all these years. For long-time fans like me, Bradbury's introductions to the stories, in which he tells a little about how each one got to be written, are a particular delight. Highly recommended, if you can stand to purchase cassettes.

CONTENTS: Introduction; The Lake; The Smile; The Foghorn; The Veldt; The Crowd; John Huff's Leavetaking (from _Dandelion Wine_); Illuminations (from _Dandelion Wine_); The Illustrated Man; Marionettes, Inc; The Pedestrian; The Dwarf; There Will Come Soft Rains; A Sound of Thunder; Fever Dream