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Loading... The Golden Apples of the Sunby Ray Bradbury
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Another collection by Bradbury, whose Imagination is matched just by his ability to seize 'the drunkeness of things being various'. A gloriously American writer,. (  ) marek2009 | Nov 8, 2009 |  Worth it just to have "A Sound of Thunder." All the stories are beautiful and well-written. You can expect no less from any Bradbury story or novel. ( ) Waianuhea | Aug 20, 2008 | There are many reasons to read Bradbury, even at this relatively late date. For one, you can't deny his originality; he was amost always there very early, if not exactly first, whether thematically (e.g., the plight of the immigrant, "I See You Never") or conceptually (e.g., the perils of irresponsible time travel, "A Sound of Thunder.") Then, there is his range: from folk tale ("Invisible Boy") to satire ("Sun and Shadow") to comic suspense ("The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl"). Primarily, though, there is Bradbury's inimitable use of language: a curious amalgam of plain-spokenness with imprecision that results, if you're reading quickly, which he usually cons you into doing, with a vaguely unsettling sense that you're in an odd world where the dots don't connect. Consider an early sentence in the first story of this collection ("The Fog Horn"), where the narrator is describing the lighthouse where he works -- "And if they did not see our light, then there was always our Voice, the great deep cry of our Fog Horn shuddering through the rigs of mist to startle gulls away like packs of scattered cards and make the waves turn high and foam." While we are likely to pause and appreciate the comparison of frightened sea birds to scattered playing cards, we're subtly discouraged to linger and ask how exactly the sound of a foghorn can make waves rise or foam. Bradbury doesn't want us to ask that question; he is setting us up. He can usually get us every time. ( ) jburlinson | Jun 22, 2008 | So many of these "stories" are vignettes or slices of life. While Bradbury's writing quality makes them readable, if you have less than 10 years to live and can only read 50 books a year, skip this one. otherwise, well, it IS Bradbury and there are two above average "stories" in this collection: "The Fog Horn," where a well-written sea monster mates with a lighthouse, and "Sounds of Thunder" involving the "manly" art of hunting (T-rex, in this case). The fact that I cannot remember what the other stories are "about", you will, or their titles, speaks for itself. (  ) andyray | Feb 1, 2008 | I enjoyed most of the stories in this book, particularly; "The Murderer," which I found to be so appropriate to life today! This is one of few stories that hasn't got an initial publication date noted, but I guess it would be early 1950. Even though the technology that drives the main character to "murder" is not exactly as Bradbury imagined it would be, it is close enough to make me go "Wow!" "Sun and Shadow," which made me feel guilty about the times I've found life that is on the verge of abject poverty "picturesque." And I also enjoyed; "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind," which illustrates zero-sum-game quite nicely all the while pretending to be a fairytale. "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl," which made me shiver with delighted horror. "The Great Wide World Over There," which make me quite sad, though filled me with a longing to write letters to strangers who live in remote places. And one that I couldn't decide if I loved for itself, or just because it features a lighthouse. I moved to Pittsburgh from a seaside town just south of Boston last year and, besides my two adult children, I miss the lighthouses the most. The story is the first in the book, "The Fog Horn." (  ) Zmrzlina | Nov 10, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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