| | 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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 Classic collection by the legendary Bradbury September 3, 2008
Ray Bradbury is always a delight. While I'm a huge fan of his (sparse few) novels, it's impossible to deny that where he really shines is in his copious short works. He is, in my opinion, one of the 20th Century's great short story writers.
The Illustrated Man plucks a character from Something Wicked This Way Comes and uses him as a set of bookends for this collection of 18 short stories. Like any such collection, there are high points and low points. The low points - the story about famous authors dying as their books are burned, for instance - are still fairly solid, though far from classics, while the high points - the rains on Venus, the father who is always away in his rocket, the astronauts floating to their deaths in space, the poor man and his fake rocket, the telepathic man among the sick exiles, the alien invasion via children - are high points indeed. Very, VERY high points.
Bradbury never fails to impress. This is an excellent collection full of rich ideas, wonderful languages and stories you'll never forget.
The Illustrated Man is a MUST READ November 5, 2008
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I first read this when i was in the 7th grade and saw the movie as part of a lesson in middle school. I was so impressed by this book that I have read it over and over and over again since. Now im 28 and I finally ordered my own copy and I love it. Everyone should read Bradbury and The Illustrated Man is a must read.
Clever and creative November 23, 2008
Very interesting book. Never gets dull, as it is really a series of very short stories almost all of them concerning the nature of God.
Bradbury comes out strongly against both religious people who are inflexible in their definition of God AND atheists. As an agnostic, I was actually a little irritated with parts of it, but you know, it would be hypocritical of me to expect Christians to take it, but not accept a little bit of criticism myself. So, just read it with a very open mind and a lot of curiosity about the world, and you'll love it.
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