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Title: Let's All Kill Constance : A Novel by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0-06-051584-8 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank you, Mr. Bradbury
Comment: Bradbury made a writer out of me when I was twelve, reading stories he'd written before I was even thought of. Thirty-three very odd years later he's still presenting me with wonders that must be read in one sitting--damn my own deadllines-- a rare pleasure these days. Ray is the perfect hallucinogen for those of us who never did drugs.
Let's All Kill Constance reads like a dream--literally. Our nameless protagonist lurches us through an unlikely train wreck of events, with deaths and odd coincidences piling up with the fun house logic that only works in dreams. Sure it all falls apart when you wake up, but that's not the point. Let go and let Ray, to coin a phrase. That's the beauty of all his work--phantasmagoria, surrealism, and word play thick as late summer sunlight and twice as golden.
One particular passage made me stop and dog ear a page, as Crumley rants: "You don't know anyone. You'll never write the great American novel, because you don't know shoats from shinola. You overestimate character where there is none, so you upchuck fairy princes, virgin milkmaids. Most writers can't even do that, so you go with your taffy pulls, thirteen to the dozen. Let those realists scoop dog doo. . . .You know what your problem is? You love people not worth loving."
Amen, brother and God bless you, Mr. Bradbury. I hope you're still writing when *I'm* 80. I always read you in October.
Rating: 5
Summary: LET'S ALL RAISE A TOAST TO MR. BRADBURY
Comment: This latest installment (DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS, A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS) in the adventures of Ray's unnamed alter-ego hero is, like its predecessors, many things: a detective story, a phantasmagoria of the incredible characters that populate Ray's world, and, perhaps most of all, a love song to Los Angeles as only Ray can envision it - a place where the mundane and the utterly fantastic can walk arm-in-arm down the boulevard of Mr. Bradbury's unique imagination. He is one of a kind.
Rating: 3
Summary: Compelling, Confusing, Constance....
Comment: I am a big fan of Ray Bradbury's work. He is a genious in literature. However, this book fell short of what I expected from him.
The book starts off excellant. There is a good build up and it is very quick and interesting. As the plot thickens (hehe) things tended to get a little bit confusing to me. Part of it is Bradbury's classic writing style mixed with a very odd plot. The other part is sheer madness. Everything comes back into focus for the end only to end on an off note, almost leaving you hanging.
Again, let me reiterate that this is not a bad novel at all, but as far as Ray Bradbury's work goes, it is on a lower level. If perhaps this was another author I would easily give it 4 stars, but I expected more out of a Bradbury novel.
If you are a die hard fan of Mr. Bradbury's work, check this one out, however if you are new to his work, start off with one of his well known classics.
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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: Bradbury Stories : 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 006054242X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Bradbury: An Illustrated Life : A Journey to Far Metaphor by Jerry Weist, Ray Bradbury ISBN: B0000A09DX Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0380789655 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0061032034 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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