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Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (April 17, 2012)
The Illustrated Man is a below average piece of dull 50's writing from an overrated writer. Ray Bradbury includes in all his short stories, his hidden sanctimonious Christian ethics. He spreads his tedious message in little spurts here and there. I was expecting science fiction but found nothing of the sort.
"The Veldt" -- Two parents use an artificial "nursery" to keep their children happy. The children use the high-tech simulation nursery to create the predatorial environment of the African veldt. When the parents threaten to take it away, the children lock their parents inside where they are mauled and killed by the "harmless" machine-generated lions of the nursery. "Kaleidoscope" -- A bitter astronaut feels he has accomplished nothing worthwhile in his life as he and the rest of his crew fall irrevocably to their demise in outer space because of a malfunction in their ship. The story illustrates the collapse of the sanity and logic of the crew members as they face their death. Ultimately, the lamenting narrator is incinerated in the atmosphere of the Earth and appears as a shooting star to a child after wishing that his life would at least be worth something for someone else. "The Other Foot" -- Mars has been colonized solely by black people. When they learn that a rocket is coming from Earth with white travelers, they institute a Jim Crow system of racial segregation in which white people are to be considered second-class citizens, in retaliation for the history of wrongs perpetrated on their race by white people. When the rocket lands, the traveler tells them that most of the Earth has been destroyed in a war and asks for their help.Read more ›
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First, the cover was much different than the picture listed. But it proved to be a great thing, the cover I received was really bright and it showed the tattoos on the back of a turned away man. Perfectly fitting for the book. As far as the content, let me tell you this : I read the first few pages and told my husband how great it was. He then took it, began reading and I did not get it back until he was finished with it. It is great. Full of interesting stories that leave you still thinking about them. Wonderfully written. Expected nothing less than perfection coming from Ray Bradbury. <3 And YES it arrived just days later. Safe packaging. Great buy!
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A series of related stories told by a narrator as he watches the tales of others' lives unfold visually on the body of the Illustrated Man. I read these stories for the first time when I was 13 or 14......and decided to reread them again at the age of 60. When I read them I knew for the first time there were always hidden nuances in a story if the reader could just sense them. I fell in love with reading at that moment....and yearned to be an author one day. Years later I would attend college to become a professor of English and have the privilege of teaching others to love stories too for 23 years. While going to school I also had an opportunity to meet Ray Bradbury in person and share with him the life changing experience he had provided me through this literary invention. His hug and appreciation sticks with me now. Sit down, and let the tales on the body of an illustrated man change your life too.
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What is there to say when you finally catch up on a bona fide classic after so many years? It's not as though I'm entirely new to reading Ray Bradbury; like any serious reader and/or science-fiction fan, I've enjoyed much of Bradbury's work over the years, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to Fahrenheit 451 to The Martian Chronicles and beyond. And, of course, I've read (and taught) several of his short stories. But somehow, I had never sat and read The Illustrated Man cover-to-cover...and now that I have, I find that it's every bit as good as its reputation would have you believe and then some. To be sure, Bradbury's writing is more serviceable than literate; he was a man concerned with story and plotting, and showy or elaborate prose would get in his way. (It's a common trait among classic science-fiction authors, and in some ways, I think it's prejudiced the genre against richer prose...but that's a discussion for another time.) Even so, the stories themselves are so good, so rich that it's hard, if not impossible, not to get swept up into them. From a racial role reversal on Mars to a city laying in wait for a special visitor, from the dangerous appeal of Earth culture to the story of astronauts adrift in space, Bradbury's imagination is a thing of beauty, and each story is good enough that it could anchor a whole novel. Even so, Bradbury never lets his stories feel rushed or cluttered; indeed, they're all completely distinct and unique, a feat that sometimes eludes short story writers. Add to that the way each story grapples with unique themes and explorations of humanity, while never letting the story fall to the side, and you have a master class in storytelling.Read more ›
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