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Whether you read SF or not, Ray Bradbury writes beautifully. His style is dreamy and lyrical, satirical and funny, and at times creepy as hell.
This book is interconnected short stories, rather than a novel in the traditional sense. It describes the imagined human colonization of Mars. Some parts are extremely dated: all the men smoke cigars and shoot things; the women bake gingerbread. I guess cell phones and YouTube were beyond the realm of
possibility in 1950, too; Bradbury had people still usi ...more
This book is interconnected short stories, rather than a novel in the traditional sense. It describes the imagined human colonization of Mars. Some parts are extremely dated: all the men smoke cigars and shoot things; the women bake gingerbread. I guess cell phones and YouTube were beyond the realm of
possibility in 1950, too; Bradbury had people still usi ...more
Sep 29, 2020
Tien
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A collection of short stories, which at times intersect each other, of Mars, human's invasion of the planet and Martians. The first story was hilarious & a tad creepy and then each story was progressively creepier. I kept having to remind myself that the book was published in 1949 because the language does sound rather dated and yet, the humanity factor is still the same... Apparently, people do not change and history just repeats after itself. There was a nod to author's earlier 'firey' work an
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Oct 15, 2014
ladymurmur
marked it as to-read
