The Illustrated Man

Hardcover, 275 pages

English language

Published June 1, 1997 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-380-97384-2
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OCLC Number:
36875253

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4 stars (2 reviews)

He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

The Illustrated ManRay Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.

The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space …

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Tem muitas ideias boas nesse livro

4 stars

Aparentemente Bradbury ficou obcecado por Marte e viagens de foguete. Nas histórias que estão neste livro ele vai falar de vários assuntos e em muitas delas construindo narrativas que se passam no planeta Marte ou em viagens espaciais, e às vezes achei que deu muito certo, outras vezes nem tanto.

"O homem do foguete" é um dos casos que achei que o tema foi bem aplicado, mostrando uma família cujo pai passa meses viajando a trabalho, e quando volta não consegue estabelecer uma ligação com a esposa e filho. Acho que dá pra pensar em histórias de imigração, em que a pessoa se sente estrangeira tanto em casa como no outro país, ou também nas histórias de guerra em que o soldado quer voltar pra casa, mas quando volta não se adapta e acaba querendo ir pra guerra outra vez. Esse conto também serviu de inspiração pra música do Elton …

Good Bradbury, but less than the Martian Chronicles

4 stars

A few years ago, I had borrowed The Illustrated man at our local media library. I read it entirely and loved it immensely.

Shortly thereafter, I found out that that edition was abridged. It contained, if I recall well, 6 short stories, out of the total 18.

As a completist, I don't like abridged novels, not any more than having a painting cut into pieces...

Therefore, I ordered the proper, full version and I just finished reading it - which took me some months, actually - because I was reading several other books, alternating between subjects and genres.

My overall impression is that it is less cohesive than Bradbury's Martian chronicles.

Indeed, it looks like a collection of short stories that didn't have enough in common to go into a specific book, so these 18 stories were placed into one novel, between a prologue and an epilogue, depicting the meeting …

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  • Science fiction, American