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Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews Paperback – June 29, 2010

by Ray Bradbury (Author), Sam Weller (Author), Black Francis (Foreword)

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A definitive collection of interviews with one of America's most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future.

Ray Bradbury, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. From Mikhail Gorbachev to Alfred Hitchcock to David Bowie, Bradbury’s sway on contemporary culture is towering. Acclaimed biographer and Bradbury scholar Sam Weller has spent more than a decade interviewing the author; the fascinating conversations that emerge cast a high-definition portrait of a creative genius and a futurist who longs for yesterday. Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews is the definitive collection of interviews with an American icon.

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Product Details

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Stop Smiling Books; 1st edition (June 29, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935554034
ISBN-13: 978-1935554035
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Joyful Book, Joyful Bradbury

By Amazon Customer on July 1, 2010

Format: Paperback

Listen to the Echoes is a joyful book. In Sam Weller's candid interviews, Ray Bradbury celebrates the gift that is life itself: not always easy but endlessly interesting. Unlike pop psych philosophers or preachers of bumper sticker religious platitudes, Bradbury gives us specifics about what makes waking up each morning the start of another adventure.

Sam Weller obviously admires Bradbury, artist and man, but doesn't limit himself to warm, fuzzy, and obvious queries: Ray Bradbury reveals himself as lifelong fanboy, with his movie star autograph collection, and sometimes curmudgeonly political conservative--but these insights add to the reality of the man: No clay feet, just the standard fleshly kind in Florsheims that walk the down to Earth.

Along with Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, this book is required reading for all those engaged in (the art and craft of) writing. It's also for those who believe in Life.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

A fascinating, inspiring must-read for Bradbury fans

By Sheila L. Beaumont VINE VOICE on August 8, 2010

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I loved these interviews! Ray Bradbury is a fascinating person, and the book is really inspiring, since he has such great enthusiasm about people and things. He's opinionated, too, which adds to the fun. Among the topics covered are Bradbury's childhood, movies, comics, famous friends, religion, politics, and science fiction.

Here's a small sampling of Bradbury's opinions: 1) The Harry Potter books are wonderful, and he gave them to all of his grandchildren; he likens them to his own "Something Wicked This Way Comes"; 2) He loves to get toys for Christmas; 3) Reagan was one of the great presidents of the 20th century; 4) He's in favor of gay marriage ("Love is love. All I want is for people to be happy"); 5) Bush I should have extended the Gulf War to Baghdad and overthrown Saddam Hussein; then Bush II wouldn't have inherited the problem; 6) Edgar Rice Burroughs "is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world"; he inspired a whole generation of kids, causing them to go out into the world and become special; he inspired lots of writers, scientists and technologists.

It's a wonderful book, provocative, informative and entertaining, and a great supplement to author Sam Weller's excellent biography "The Bradbury Chronicles."

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

An American Original

By Greg Murphy on August 8, 2010

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All I knew about Ray Bradbury was that he wrote "Fahrenheit 451", "The Illustrated Man" and a lot of science fiction. What a pleasure it was then to meet an American original like Mark Twain in Sam Weller's superlative new book--"Listen To The Echoes". From sex and religion, to his life in Hollywood, to his thoughts on architecture and literature, Bradbury speaks with the wisdom of a philosopher, the wonder of a child and a hilarious, sometimes brutal honesty that for all its bite is never vicious. It's truly wonderful to listen to Bradbury's unique voice as he muses on everything from Renaissance art to Garbo, his thoughts about an afterlife and his great joy in living despite having suffered a debilitating stroke and losing his wife of fifty-six years. Bradbury seems also to have met everyone from Gorbachev and Norman Mailer to Marlene Dietrich, Sinatra, Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg, and gives his own inimitable perspective on them all. Mr. Weller knows his subject and does a beautiful job capturing this complex and fascinating writer--as he puts it "unfiltered and unplugged". I plan to reread "Listen To The Echoes" for its insights, its humor and as a superb portrait of an inspired and inspiring artist and humanist.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Listen to the Reviews

By L on August 3, 2010

Format: Paperback

Sam Weller weaves in and out of Ray Bradbury's life, skipping along the surface before diving deep into the 90-year-old's everlasting imagination and memory. Listen to the Echoes contains wisdom for readers and writers, yes, but also for lovers of life everywhere.

Organized into topics ranging from Childhood and Faith to Sexuality and Visions of the Future, Weller's questions and Bradbury's responses work together to create a time machine. Back to Bradbury's birth (of which he claims to remember), to a 1920s theater where 3-year-old Ray discovers his love of cinema, to a time when Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes were still in the paper, to Democrats to Republicans to creativity to the Amazon Kindle, Bradbury is transformed into something more than just a writer with every turn of the page.

Read it. Refer to it. Learn from it. You will never fully close this book as the lessons it holds will stick with you for the rest of your life.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

That's the Sound of the Man

By Greg on August 3, 2010

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More than just a companion volume to his book The Bradbury Chronicles, Sam Weller's collection of interviews and anecdotes is a visionary journey into the mind and times of one of America's most prolific and influential writers.

Covering everything from politics to religion to sex, Listen is a 21st century book in it's execution. Included with the author's stories about his own life as Bradbury's biographer (do YOU know what Karl Rove's favorite Bradbury book is? Sam does,) are rich photos of Bradbury's basement office- stacked to the ceiling with comic books, monster toys, movie posters, and so much more- by photographer Zen Sekizawa.

The impact of reading Listen to the Echoes is akin to having Weller and Bradbury themselves, sitting across from you, in conversation. The impact of having read Listen to the Echoes is to have become one step deeper in the ranks on the side of life, love, and laughter.

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Four Stars

Helpful book for research project. Shipped quickly.

Published 4 months ago by Donald Hillman

makes you adore Bradbury even more!

Ray Bradbury is a person I wish I could see in everyone I meet. What a life lived!! Excellent interviews.

Published 10 months ago by Fringetree

Well made book, amazing insight into an amazing mind

I'm not really into biographies or reading interviews, but Bradbury is one of my favorite authors so I wanted to know more about him. Read more

Published 16 months ago by Lucas Beechinor

Superb!

Reading this book makes me personally want to know Ray Bradbury. To have grown up with him and been his friend, his shadow. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Senora M Troche

Inside The Man

I first saw this book by accident at a public library, I checked it out and took it with me on vacation thinking I would read it whenever I could. Read more

Published 21 months ago by filmfan

Informative, entertaining and pure Bradbury

I admit it, I love Ray Bradbury's works. I've already read Sam Weller's other book about Ray, The Bradbury Chronicles, which is also worth reading. Read more

Published on July 15, 2013 by Bernard Farrell

Listen to the Echoes

Ray Bradbury was a genius, visionary and literary artist. It was wonderful to hear (or read) his ideas on a number of important subjects.

Published on January 6, 2013 by rozabell

I am sorry to be finished with it

What a wonderful gift Sam Weller has given the lovers of Ray Bradbury. A loving and intimate look at a man who will, one way or another, "live forever" as he always sought to do. Read more

Published on July 24, 2012 by Lynn M. Hogarth

Listen to the echoes:ray bradbury interviews

chapters are short enough that you can pick & put down. very interesting topics that makes you want to read or reread brandbury's stories.

Published on December 24, 2010 by Amazon Customer

The Echoes Have Been Heard

Just get your work done. It is the one thing Ray Bradbury says repeatedly throughout Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, the new book of interviews compiled by... Read more

Published on September 26, 2010 by Gregory E. Frohbieter