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After reading Kaleidoscope, I really felt I had to slow down with this collection and give myself time to contemplate.

Thoughts on The Illustrated Man?

>> No.2535375
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2535375

After reading Kaleidoscope, I really felt I had to slow down with this collection and give myself time to contemplate.


Thoughts on Life and Fate?

>> No.2535385

>>2535375
I loved that book! The melancholic elements were great. What did you enjoy the most, friend?

>> No.2535398

>>2535385
I have a fancy for epic novels, and this deservedly bears the title of such. Especially when it is based on actual events (comparable to War and Peace, although I believe this to be the superior of the two texts)

I also have a soft spot for melancholic novels, which is probably one of the reasons why I loved reading Grossman so much. Have you read his short story collection The Road or Forever Flows yet?

Forever Flows is fucking intense in its critique of the communist regime at the time. Grossman had balls. And unlike the Holohoax, the shit that went down with the Jews documented in the USSR is the true shit.

>> No.2535402

Some of the stories are absolute trash.

Most of them are amazing.

Kaleidoscope, The Long Rain, Fox and the Forest, Marionettes Inc., The City, Zero Hour and The Rocket. All god tier concepts.

>> No.2535405

>>2535373
I read the edition in your pic, but I was probably ten or eleven. I really liked it, but don't remember anything except the premise of the stories being the illustrated man's tattoos animating which is pretty cool.

Dandelion Wine is the Bradbury that I remember best, but he's a great writer.

>> No.2535712

I just borrowed this novel from my local library OP. What should I expect?

>> No.2537239
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2537239

I did not enjoy it. I'm 18 and it couldn't even entertain my little brain. It's not that it was written badly though. It's only bad in the way that seeing a black and white film made in the 1950's these days is relatively 'bad'.

>> No.2537243

>>2537239
>It's only bad in the way that seeing a black and white film made in the 1950's these days is relatively 'bad'
so you're saying you lack the necessary mental toolkit to appreciate it then, essentially?

>> No.2537256

>>2537243
I suppose. I didn't like it. Your implied superiority really doesn't impress either.

>> No.2537264

>>2537256

It doesn't matter what impresses you, you can't get your thick mind around an old movie.

>> No.2537271

>"The Fire Balloons" — A group of priests travel to Mars to act as a missionary to Martians. Once there, they discover that the natives are actually entities of pure energy. Since they lack corporeal form, they are unable to commit sin, and thus do not need redemption.

I wonder what implications this would have for their faith and religion in general

>> No.2537282

>>2537264
Why can't your thick mind appreciate dog feces? Shit is awesome if you only knew how deep it was...

>> No.2537290

>>2537282

I leave you to enjoy it.

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>>2537290
th-thanks

>> No.2537364

>>2537305
>>2537243 here, the above posts weren't me. Didn't mean it to come off as superior, sorry. I understand what you're getting at.