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Bradbury Classic Stories 2: Medicine for Melancholy & S is for Space (original 1990; edition 1990)

by Ray Bradbury

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Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of 31 of Bradbury's most arresting tales-timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart.… (more)
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Title:Bradbury Classic Stories 2: Medicine for Melancholy & S is for Space
Authors:Ray Bradbury
Info:Spectra (1990), Edition: Rei, Paperback
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A Medicine For Melancholy and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury (1990)

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This short story made me realize why I hate 98% of children. Nothing but cruel bullies. ( )
  Koralis | Jul 12, 2022 |
Interesting short story. ( )
  MBTC | Jul 9, 2022 |
I reckon I'm not very smart. Some of Bradbury's stories just leave me scratching my head and wondering what the heck they mean. His Martian stories, on the other hand, are old favorites that I can reread annually. So I can give more than half the stories in this collection 5 stars, but the remaining I find so baffling that I would only give them 2 stars. That's why it took me a month to read this - every time I came across a baffler, I would put it up - kind of like Joey hiding Little Women in the freezer. ( )
  LeslieHolm | May 19, 2022 |
While there are some great stories in here, the preponderance of them is too much of Ray Bradbury's worst tendencies--thin characters, wasted non-drama, a romanticism with space and rockets that feels plain gooey. Combine the best of this book with the best of "R is for Rocket" and you have one tight collection of short stories. ( )
  Smokler | Jan 3, 2021 |
Haunting story. Read it when I was younger. I would like to find the science fiction anthology this was in. There were many great stories and they were specifically for teens. The name escapes me. ( )
  Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |
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Classic Stories 2, as reprinted as A medicine for Melancholy and other stories 0380730863. This differs considerably from the earlier collection A Medicine for Melancholy (1960)
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Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of 31 of Bradbury's most arresting tales-timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart.

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Ray Bradbury: enjoying 'The Wonderful white vanilla Ice-Cream summer Suit' included in this collection. Perfect for a summer day in SoCal too.
"My eye sees and my tongue moves..." (and I may add my ear hears & my hands act.) [Perhaps the meaning of every story, every news article].
Bradbury's short stories are very satisfying in their originals along with his Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric & Illustrated Man. (see PS3503.R167
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