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Loading... The Illustrated Man (1951)by Ray Bradbury
None. I always think Bradbury's going to disappoint when I reread him, but he never does. (  ) usefuljack | May 17, 2013 |  I always think Bradbury's going to disappoint when I reread him, but he never does. ( ) usefuljack | May 17, 2013 | Probably the best book we read in school! Ray Brandury just has such an amazing imagination. Take a note he wrote this book in 1951! That is just amazing. This book consist of short stories about a future. There is a message in every story, if you read really careful, or go on Sparknotes to figure some of them out(what I did)Haha.. The stories just captivate you. it brings the impossible to life. Some of the stories are brutal and shows the future of where people destroy themselves. It also looks at the side of a technology. What humans made to help themselves can easily destroy them. It really gives his strong perspective on future. I would definitely recommend to read it for people who enjoy science fiction and short stories. ( ) AnastaB | Apr 21, 2013 | The concept of this is interesting, and the ending is brilliant. Love it. (  ) shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 | This is only the second book from Ray Bradbury that I have read (other than the classic Fahrenheit 451). This collection of short stories reminds me of some of Stephen King's stories--creepy and very well written. Some of my favorites were The Veldt, Kaleidoscope, The Other Foot and The Exiles. I am going to pick up some of his other books. walterqchocobo | Apr 8, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in5 in 1: Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The October Country / Dandelion Wine / The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury The Best of Bradbury: Five Major Works by the Master of Science Fiction (Boxed Set): Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, Lon by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man / The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury Contains
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 055327449X, Mass Market Paperback)That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:24:35 -0500) "The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world."--Publisher's description.… (more) |
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