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Title: One More for the Road: A New Story Collection by Ray Bradbury, Scott Campbell ISBN: 0-06-008117-1 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not his best, but still worth reading
Comment: I have decided that short stories must be more difficult to write than novels. I absolutely adored Ray Bradbury's Fareheit 451, but his short story collection One More For the Road only had a few good stories. It is also possible that his writing ideas are inversly proportional to his age. Some of the stories were thought provoking, some were entertaining, some were skin crawling, and some were just boring. I would recommend the Illustrated Man as a substitution.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than Most
Comment: This is not Ray Bradbury's best work. Yet, this is not a fair statement when he has written works such as Dandelion Wine and The Martian Chronicles. This is still very good stuff and is very enjoyable. The Enemy in the Wheat, The Dragon Danced at Midnight, and My Son Max ranks right up there some his best work. The rest of this material is still better than most of what is published by others today. I have been reading Bradbury for 30 years and have enjoyed him immensly. It is wonderful watching him look back at the twilight years of his career and write about life. He still has the magic. This book is a little more melancholy than some of his other work, but there are stories in this collection that are pure joy. He still acknoledges his childhood heros and pays them homage. The reader should be familiar with Bradbury to understand some of his stories or they will miss the point of why he wrote them. This is not the best Bradbury book to start reading him with, but do not miss this book either.
Rating: 3
Summary: Warning...this is straight fiction
Comment: Ray Bradbury, as everyone will attest, is one of the greatest storytellers of our time. But because he wrote one story set on Mars and another tale set in a dytopian future, he was branded a science fiction writer. The truth is that his tales are short on science and long on fiction...
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But over the years, I've come to expect Bradbury to have at least some elements of fantasy or the fantastic in his stories. "One More for the Road" is almost totally lacking in any of that(there are three sci-fi/fantasty-ish stories).
That was disappointing to me. Most of the stories here are straight narrative fiction. The wonder and the imagination is gone. There were no new worlds, no fresh spins, no flashes of insight in any of these stories. True, his writing and imagery has never been better. But most of the stories are musings on his career, or getting old, or dealing with the past.
Don't get me wrong. The stories were okay. But I just expected a little more from one of America's greatest storytellers
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Title: From the Dust Returned: A Novel by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0380973820 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Let's All Kill Constance : A Novel by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0060515848 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Driving Blind by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0380789604 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0380812002 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0671037692 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: December, 2004 List Price(USD): $10.01 |
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