Let’s All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury (EPUB)

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On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge — and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance’s name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood — a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams … and, all too often, to death.

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⭐I enjoyed the book but it was a bit difficult to follow. Not your usual Ray Bradbury so if that’s what you’re looking for this is not your book. However, if you’re looking for a good conclusion to three book series involving the narrator, Elmo, Constance, and Henry I think you’ll be pleased with Let’s All Kill Constance.

⭐When I think of Ray Bradbury I think of his Science Fiction like “The Martian Chronicals” or his moody stories like “Something Wicked This Way Comes” but this is a whole ‘nuther Bradbury.. This Bradbury starts things off by hurling the gauntlet in your face by using “It was a dark and stormy night.” for an opener. I have to admit in the first chapter I struggled, disoriented trying to get a grip on how to read this story. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s talking. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where / when they’re talking. But once I got the rhythm of the book, it turned into a fun read. The characters are wonderfully drawn, the events eventually make sense and at the end, it’s a satisfactory story. I’d say this isn’t my favorite Bradbury book, but I’m glad he wrote it.

⭐Heresy: I haven’t like Bradbury too much. But this was eccentric, engaging and entertaining; if you like movie town slapstick 🙂

⭐Reading has fun moments though. Lots of references to other Bradbury writing – books, mummies I’m Mexican catacombs and much more.

⭐I thought I had read all of Bradbury’s science fiction and I may have. This is some of the other work he had done when he was in Hollywood. Apparently he was doing a lot of work in Hollywood that I have never heard of. Cool story and great view of Hollywood as it moved from a classic and even the silent era into the modern era of the 50’s and 60’s. Lots of fun, and he gets punched by his wife in the end.

⭐Not his best work! A little weird even for Bradbury but it was an easy read

⭐Short but consistent Bradburry

⭐This is not The Martian Chronicles. It’s as unlike any of his classic work as can be until one begins to look at the descriptive phrases. Then Dandelion Wine comes to mind. The plot is zany and the characters more so but it’s an end-of-life reflection on what makes us who we are and can it be changed.

⭐I’ ve seen this book advertised before but never quite got round to it …I had also not appreciated that it was the third in a trilogy of books that have a detective ” slant” to them even though the main character isnt a detective but the author himself the other two books are Death is. Lonely business and A Graveyard for Lunatics …this book has at its centre, a poetic look back over a lifetime in the movies and how someone ultimately loses their own sense of self …it also touches on feeling that things have passed you by ….and how you must make huge sacrifices for ‘one last chance’. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and reccomend it ….keen Ray Bradbury fan for over 30 years that I am! ….one thing that might put people off…shouldnt …namely this novel is quite short .This does however ensure the book doesnt drag ..it whips along ;and as always with Bradbury : leaves you with a sense -not just of the story -but of other themes : here being that of lives lived and lost; and maybe …wasted….

⭐Ray Bradbury is one of those writers who can do no wrong. While this pseudo detective tale may not be to everyone’s taste, it is a monument to the immense imagination of a great author. Constance Rattigan, a troubled film star, arrives unexpectedly in the midst of a storm, clutching not one, but two ‘Books of the Dead’. Some of the names, circled and with the addition of a symbolic cross, suddenly begin dying, and they all have a strong connection to Constance’s past. Who is killing them? Why? The long awaited ending may come as a surprise, but a delightful one, all the same.

⭐I discovered Ray Bradbury way back in the days of Fahrenheit 541, The Silver Locusts, and The October Country. A wonderful writer who seemed to predict the future.Sadly this isn’t anywhere as good as those books. I couldn’t decide if it was supposed to be comedy or serious. Finally I gave up about half way through, very sad.

⭐I’m afraid I gave up on this after a few “chapters”. Its all a bit stream of consciousness for me. Its disjointed, hard to follow and just a little too intentionally trippy. I have to say I’ve only ever read Bradbury’s fabulous Fahrenheit 451. If that’s your only experience of his work too avoid this one.

⭐Genius. Fans of Ray Bradbury will NOT be disappointed – forms part of the writer trilogy ( after death is a lonely business and a graveyard for lunatics)

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