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Title: Quicker than the Eye by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0-380-78959-0 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I laughed, I cried, I thought in a different way
Comment: Bradbury is amazing and at his best in a short story format. This collection is not science fiction, although book stores tend to insist that if Bradbury wrote it, it must be SciFi. It is fiction, and often a sort of twisted Aesop's fables. Bradbury has a unique gift for hiding important moral axioms deep within his story line. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate a good short story. Some of the stories in this book will stick with you for weeks.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating short stories.
Comment: This is his best short story collection. Each story is innovative and the book is not repetitively themed and toned like his _Golden Apples of the Sun_. More than half the stories are originals, and the rest ran in magazines ranging from Omni to Playboy.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent collection from an American master
Comment: Ray Bradbury is rightfully acknowledged for master works FAHRENHEIT 451 and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. By his own admission, however, short stories are his forte. For years he has crafted fantastic explorations of the human condition with style so simple and unpretentious that what is now labled MINIMALIST is, in fact, the art of The Poet.
QUICKER THAN THE EYE is the collection where Bradbury's "meta-theme" of a good heart vs. TEMPTATION from the world; the Devil; or flesh is given profound consumation. The terror tale DORIAN IN EXCELSUS is my choice as the collection's singular fable. It presents classic Faustian bargain for The Soul. Bradbury is elegantly ironic (and merciless) in narrating THE ULTIMATE TEMPTATION to self-apotheosis/homage in narcissism. Bradbury alludes his story to Oscar Wilde's PICTURE of DORIAN GRAY where the Romantic Commandment: "Beauty is truth...truth is beauty; that is all you know on earth; and all you need to know (Keats)" was twisted by evil hedonism into license for limitless perversion. And where observed (The Portrait) DECONSTRUCTION of one's inner self becomes wicked PARODY of The Beatific Vision.
"Rapture" in self-Love is what Bradbury's protagonist is offered (He observes dozens of young men gazing lovingly AT THEMSELVES in mirrors of a cult/club called Gray's Anatomy Bar & Grill). The irony of the place and the description of THE GYM where "initiates" work-out to stave-off final "absorption" into the anti-Self/God "DORIAN" has to be one of the most terrifying passages ever written. Yet it fully embraces the anti-aesthetic proposed by PM Deconstructionists like Michael Foucault and Jacques Derrida (& Clive Barker). Homosexuality; vampirism; incest; cannibalism and ULTIMATE (self)-ABORTION are all implied in Bradbury's coda. Even the title is a mockery of the hymn the Angelic Host is averred to have sung to infant Christ at his Nativity. Yet a single gesture of GOODNESS saves the pathetically bedazzled "hero". In my estimate Ray Bradbury is America's equivalent to the great British mythologist-theologian, C. S. Lewis. The jacket of QUICKER THAN THE EYE proclaims: a single story is worth the price of the book... DORIAN IN EXCELSUS (Glory to Dorian in the Highest!) is this story. It speaks to a culture that glorifies SELF. It is master story teller Ray Bradbury's art that illuminates the essence and consequences of Self-worship as well as proposing how in a twinkle of the eye, man might choose to escape SELFishness in and for GOOD...
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Title: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0553277537 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The October Country by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 034532448X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Golden Apples of the Sun, The by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0380730391 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I Sing the Body Electric! And Other Stories by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0380789620 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0061032034 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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