A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities by Ray Bradbury (EPUB)

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Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

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⭐I’ve found I really like Bradbury’s work and writing style. This is a good story with a lot of similar dialogue he tends to use. I think it has predictable moments, but there’s a fair amount of mystery to the story too. Not the greatest story of his I’ve read, but still really good. Worth a read if you are a fan.

⭐Bradbury, no stranger to the land of the fantastic, takes us to the bizarre world of Hollywood and its myriad movie sets in A Graveyard for Lunatics. Bradbury writing about the fantasy world of Hollywood is a very natural coupling, and gives Bradbury an amazing canvas unto which he can paint his complex, interesting characters. There is a constant battle for attention between the place and the characters, a tension that helps rather than hinders the story.The plotting is not Bradbury’s best. The central mystery of the novel is rather translucent. However this is more than made up for by Bradbury’s lyrical writing, his characterization, and the magic that runs like an electrical pulse through the novel. If this is your first foray into Bradbury’s work, I would recommend you read

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⭐Ray Bradbury wrote three crime novels using the same characters and California setting: Death is a lonely Business, this book, and Lets all kill Constance. A Graveyard for Lunatics is easily the best of the three, and you don’t have to read the prequel to know the players. It suffers from previously used devices and characters from his short stories, but they are few and do not detract from what is a sort of dark valentine/memoir of Hollywood in the late 1950’s. Longer than it needs to be, the novel is still enjoyable.

⭐I love the works of the late Ray Bradbury. He is the man who really taught me to read for pleasure. So many of his stories gave great comfort (to me, at least) and once, a long time ago, I hid inside Bradbury stories while frustrated with daily life aboard a U.S. Naval ship. The middle of the night would find me reading — almost bathing in — his many stories, especially the ones from the fictional Green Town, Illinois — which was actually Waukegan, Illinois, as Bradbury recalled his childhood from the late 1920s. After I was released from military duty, I traveled to Waukegan and looked over all the sites that Mr. Bradbury had described. A huge number of those were still in place in 1974, almost precisely as Bradbury recalled them. I later wrote a news story for the Waukegan News-Sun, and then sent a copy of the paper to Mr. Bradbury’s home in Cheviot Hills, near Los Angeles. I treasured the letter he wrote back to me.HOWEVER…I am sad to say that “A Graveyard for Lunatics” was near incomprehensible. It was still composed like Bradbury poetry-prose combinations, but I could never describe in simple terms the plot. In my opinion, sad to say, “Graveyard” does not have an understandable plot at all. Mr. Bradbury left us in 2012, so he will never see this review. At times the reading was somewhat pleasant. The images were powerful. But what in hell was the plot? I shall never know

⭐Bradbury can be whimsical — and even silly — at times. He has a bent for humor, and it is apparent in this book. Undoubtedly it is based on his movie script-writing experiences and his work with his friend, Ray Harryhausen. Yet, overall, it failed to absorb my attention as much as his other, more sinister (noir) works. It’s a nice addition to your library if you are a dyed-in-the-wool Bradbury fan. I passed my copy along to someone after reding it, as I also did with “Let’s All Kill Constance,” a title related to this one.

⭐I clicked 3 stars for “it’s okay” because it’s Ray Bradbury and I wouldn’t give him less than that if he’d written a telephone book. As in “Death is a Lonely Business”, R.B. puts himself into the story as the main character. It’s really just a nostalgic fantasy ramble with a haphazard plot squeezed in and cartoony characters (on purpose, ok). Let me say I don’t read R.B. for plot or even characters. His language and kindly cautionary tones are what I like. Reading the premise for this book, I did kind of expect it to be a bit darker and chillier, but it was really just sort of a formless, egocentric (I’m sorry, Ray Bradbury!) daydream that seems to have been written more for the author than anybody else.

⭐I love Ray Bradbury and this came just as expected. The book came in perfect condition. It is currently sitting very pretty on my bookshelf because my TBR list is about a mile long at this point.

⭐A density of language and a knack for plot twists framed in a story that, like the companion piece Death Is a Lonely Business, makes even the mundane seem almost surreal makes Graveyard an incredible (in the true sense of the word) ride. Don’t expect Martian Chronicles.

⭐I’ m a huge Ray Bradbury fan but for no good reason never got round to reading this novel…the follow up ( not a sequel ) to Death Is A Lonely Business.i thoroughly enjoyed it, the one quibble being that here, Bradbury’s dialogue is , somehow in novel form harder to get along with than when it is used in short form ( at least in my opinion).. Somehow it’s just a bit ‘rich/ flowery’ ; the charcters all seem to speak with a slightly theatrical ‘ voice’. That aside i thought it introduced the characters nicely as the book progressed and the actual story was quite satisfyingly done ….i found i could picture it in my mind’s eye and i think it would make a very decent film on day.Very good !

⭐Great book. Highly recommend. As with all him book not you usual “linear ” read but more like a impressionist painting put into words. Although thin DIALB just pips it as one of my favourite Bradbury books, Lost an amazing author when Ray Bradbury passed away.

⭐Could not find anything to fault this book. Think he was one of the best writers of the twentieth century

⭐Good item at a good price

⭐A Master of Many Genres, Ray Bradbury writes an homage to the lost days of Hollywood in the 1950s. A strange, but exhilarating tale that is part autobiographical, part mystery, part fantasy. Opening on Halloween night, readers will meet characters from other Bradbury tales and one that was yet to be written. Buckle up your seatbelts!

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