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    The Illustrated Man
    The Illustrated Man
    The Illustrated Man
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Illustrated Man

    Written by Ray Bradbury

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    The Illustrated Man, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage.... Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth--as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9781501966194
    Author

    Ray Bradbury

    In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

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    • 5/5
      There's no one like Bradbury to conjure up science-fiction scenes of such clarity, poetry and depth, that they reflect all our longings and fears about the future and about ourselves. The narrator was also perfect from start to finish, making those illustrations come even more alive!
    • 5/5
      the narration of the book is superb. I recommend this audiobook
    • 5/5
      Timeless stories told in a clear, expressive voice. Travel on the wings of Bradbury’s words through the past, present and future, on this planet and all planets, through the “corrugated lines” of time and space.
    • 3/5
      Even thou they are good short stories they are too similar to each other. Plus I personally like to get attach to the characters but that chance doesn't exist in this book doesn't
    • 3/5
      This book is a collection of short stories about rocket ships and Mars. I felt it to be very outdated. The rockets are inevitably exciting just to be on board, Mars is old and deadish, and space is lonely. Also, there are no meteors in space; only asteroids big and small.