Green Shadows, White Whale. [Paperback]

Ray. Bradbury (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper Collins (1992)
• ASIN: B000O8OURC
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,895,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451', 'The Illustrated Man' and 'The Martian Chronicles'.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not his best, August 29, 2006

By 

Christian Deichert (Wiesbaden, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Shadows, White Whale (Hardcover)

Ray Bradbury was a science fiction icon, but there's a reason he didn't write "The Playboy of the Western World" or "Finnegan's Wake." The dialogue is all you get from this book. The rest of the book is a thin vehicle to get you from one conversation to the next. There are few descriptions and few insights. The dialogue itself is very humorous at parts, and in others it's obvious that this is Bradbury writing how the conversations should have gone, not how they really went. I've thoroughly enjoyed other works by Bradbury, but this wasn't one of them.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great prose., January 4, 2000

By 

Mike Springer (Kentucky USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland (Paperback)

Green Shadows, White Whale is a tale about Ray Bradbury's travels in Ireland while helping John Huston write the screenplay for Moby Dick. The writing is absolutely wonderful. I have read many books in my life but I have rarely read one so beautifully written and well composed. There were paragraphs and passages that I read over two and three times simply because they were so tasty. The story is broken up into chapters which comprise little subplots of their own. This makes for easy reading because you can read a chapter or two at a time and still enjoy the entire book. Read this book.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars do whatever you can to find this book, read it read it!!, May 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Green Shadows, White Whale (Mass Market Paperback)

for the life of me i cannot understand why this book is out of print. i found it by chance in a used bookstore, and it was the greatest discovery of my life. this is a fantastic tale, about so much more than bradbury's experiences writing the screenplay for moby dick. it expresses in its eloquent and beautiful language a deeply moving, realistic optimism and love for life. it makes you want to go out and sing and dance and shout from mountaintops and do all those other things they do in songs. and above all it makes you want to share it with others.