| | Illustrated Man, The |  | Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  208 reviews
Sales Rank: 2065290
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 186
ISBN: 0553132474
EAN: 9780553254839
ASIN: 0553254839
Publication Date: November 1, 1983
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Condition: new condition,
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 AN AMAZING BOOK!!!! September 23, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have just finished this book, I think it is the most fabulously written book I have ever read. I am a 17 year old high school student and read this book for my Reading class, I couldn't put the book down, I was pulled into every story. The stories in this book are so twisted and thought provoking. In the story "The Fox and the Forest", this couple decidedthey wanted to travel back in time for a vacation in 1933 Mexico. The way the author wrote that scene was amazing, I could vividly see what he was thinking. This book definetly left me with this indescribable feeling in my stomach. I have been recommending this book to everyone I know. I am now encouraged to go out and buy more Ray Bradbury books.
SCIENCE FICTION BLAST December 14, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow! This book was inspiring, dazzling, brilliant, and all of the above. This was most definitely the best science fiction literature I've read in my memory. I enjoyed each of the different stories equally. It combines everything from astrophysics to imaginative fantasy. It shows how amazing the author Ray Bradbury truly is. I STRONGLY recommend this book to anyone.
 Inever knew what was coming next. December 11, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have never been more bewildered or sadened or even happy all in one sitting of reading this great novel. You are put on a journey to Mars and then through the mind until the only other place to go is the heart. Bradbury keeps you guessing as to what the next story could possibly be and how could it end. Unbelievable!
The Illustrated Man, a wonderful book. September 8, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is so beautiful. Ray 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.
SKIN ILLUSTATION! January 4, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is one of those books that can not be put down. It takes you to those far away places (such as Venus) that you've always dreamed about. You always wonder "where next" and you don't want this book to end. Once this book is opened you believe that the television is on but the words are forming all the pictures. I love how Bradbury put all these wonderful short stories together and only wish that someone would make another collection of other short stories so that the worlds teenagers and adults would have literature that they accually want to read.
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