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The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury |
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chedipithu@aol.com from Houston, Texas , 01/20/98,
rating=10:
The Best
This must be the best literary work(in my mind)
to come from America. Who else other than Bradbury can make one see, taste,
touch, and hear all the wonders of the hidden yet powerful and moving niches
of literature. The Martian Chronicles makes haste to destroy the idea that
Martians are a blood thirsty race of people. The vast dried up oceans of
sand, the canals that are so abundant, and best of all the old dead towns
filled with ashes. It was most moving. This book was a journey for me and
I cannot express clearly in words how it moved me. --This text refers
to the hardcover edition of this title.
sudar@pspl.co.in from Pune, India , 01/15/98,
rating=10:
A Familiar Strangeness or A Strange Familiarity
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Have you ever read a beautiful short story that
made you want to find out what happened next?
This book is just that - each story tells you what happened after the last one. Each story could be read separately, if you wanted to. But when you begin the next one, you find it adds another layer to the atmosphere of the previous tale. The image gets deeper and more complex, until you are looking at the flow of centuries over Mars, and the humans and others on it. Each piece of this history is a gem, each has it's own glitter- from the tale of the first landings on mars to the ill-fated hot dog stand on a deserted highway there - but they come together to form a crown Bradbury fully deserves.
The stories have that haunted feeling that only Bradbury can really create. The taste of his world is somehow exotic, though it be made of elements we all know. The Martian Chronicles is a book that could fit in either the Short Story or Novel category, but perhaps the best place for it would be in Poetry.
FGM3@msn.com from US , 12/03/97, rating=9:
Points of View
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, is a
gripping book full of little surprises. Bradbury puts his messages across
in a blunt, shocking manner that leaves the reader wanting more. Each story
is a success in itself, yet all of them are mystically linked to the same
main plot. This is a plot of the exploration, settlement, and eventual
abandonement of the planet Mars. The first stories deal with the initial
Mars landings that were failures. The book goes on to delve deep into the
effects of the settlement of Mars on not only the Martian, but on us, the
Earthmen. Such is the conflict between the two rases that in one story,
"Night Meeting," there is a depiction of the createion of two totally different
dimensions on Mars; one of them inhabited by the human settlers, the other
inhabited by Martians, who were thought to be extinct. In the familiar
Bradbury plot, the humans are celled back to fight in the atomic war on
Earth and Mars is abandoned. In conclusion, this book is one of many points
of view on the same general thesis: the connotations and implications of
the settling of the planet Mars. It has a little something for everyone,
even Edgar Allan Poe lovers.
