Driving Blind by Ray Bradbury (EPUB)

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The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver’s seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

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⭐Every time I start a Bradbury short story collection, I find myself greatly disappointed, but then, about halfway through I start to like more and more of the stories. I’m not sure if he deliberately puts his stronger stuff at the end, or if it’s merely something like me readjusting to his victorian euphoric style. Overall, I did enjoy it. And the last story “That Bird that Comes Out of the Clock” was absolutely wonderful, and at the very least I will recommend that one story to many.

⭐Fell in love with Bradbury with his short stories. Now I hope I have all of his books. Excellent ! Thanks,

⭐Love Bradbury! Re-reading all his classics!

⭐great read

⭐Classic sci first, sci fantasy

⭐Hreat read!

⭐Driving Blind features 21 stories, some of which were inspired by events in Bradbury’s life. Most of the stories take place in the 1940’s and 50’s in small-town America. I was expecting an anthology along the lines of Steven Spielberg’s TV series Amazing Stories, but the tales in this book are far less fantastic. Driving Blind is more of a celebration of a simpler time, when television was in its infancy and people connected with each other on a more meaningful level. As Bradbury illustrates, our interactions with other people shape us, and can be either positive or negative experiences.I feel this book could have benefited from more focus and less stories. Most of the stories only last a handful of pages before you’re on to the next one, and I can’t recall most of them off the top of my head. The ones that stand out best are the few that indulge in fantasy and sci-fi, like the man who is surprised to find he’s been dead for several years and has inexplicably returned from the cemetery. One of the best of this collection is the titular story, “Driving Blind,” about a man wearing a dark hood who is in search of an identity to call his own.Driving Blind is strange, yet strange in the sense that most of these stories could actually happen (and according to Bradbury, some of them did). It’s also well-written, but don’t come into it expecting a lot of science fiction or fantasy, and don’t hold out hope that the stories will make a lot of sense. Many of them end suddenly and lack resolution, but that’s OK with me.

⭐I picked up this book because I am a science fiction fan, and Bradbury is one of the acknowledged masters of the genre. Instead of sci-fi, I got short fiction in the style of the magical realists. Rather than being disappointed though, I am grateful that to have been exposed to the other side of this great author.The stories in this volume are short, succinct, and often inexplicably sad. One features a traveling salesman who never takes a bag off his head. Another has the protagonist discover, while browsing yearbooks, that the same people are being born over and over again. Even those few stories with no fantastic element feel somehow otherworldly, as if the event described could only take place with the active intervention of an author, and yet are too plausible to deny out of hand. I realize that this is neither helpful nor descriptive, but the writing in this book brings on exactly that feeling of confusion and unfocus.And yet after reading (or re-reading) each story I always found myself sitting there and thinking about it for minutes afterwards. I would think about what I had just read and then find myself contemplating some fine point of philosophy that had never occurred to me before. Sometimes these would be happy thoughts, more often sad, but wherever “Driving Blind” led me I was willing to go, at least for a little while. This is a haunting and though provoking volume that shows that a good author knows no genre.

⭐Fantastic Bradbury short stories! However, I can understand why the other reviewer was disappointed if they were expecting something like Stephen King. They have different styles. King writes suspenseful horror with some fantasy. Bradbury writes fantasy with understated horror written in poetic prose. This group of stories includes the dead rising from the grave, the disfigured, the destruction of Earth and a murderous battle of wits – plenty of horror in my book, but written in such a way it is almost normal. He also writes gentle stories looking at the human condition. I enjoyed every one, and couldn’t put them down.. For more pronounced horror, readers should try Bradbury’s “The Illustrated Man” or “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. I still think Bradbury is a master storyteller and highly recommend this book.

⭐Easy read sci-fi.

⭐I DON’T KNOW IF IT’S JUST ME “NOT GETTING IT”, BUT I FOUND THIS SET OF STORIES BLAND, BORING, & REALLY RATHER POINTLESS. NOW I KNOW THIS AUTHOR HAS A HUGE FOLLOWING AND A REPUTATION TO MATCH, BUT I FOUND MYSELF RACING THROUGH THE RAMBLING DIALOGUE TO GET TO THE CLIFF-HANGING FINALE OF EACH STORY TO FIND– “SO WHAT?”! NOW, I DIDN’T EXPECT THE KIND OF STORY STEPHEN KING TELLS, BUT I DID EXPECT SOME CAUTIONARY TALES. THERE WERE NONE. I FIRST TRIED BRADBURY THIRTY-ODD YEARS AGO AND WASN’T MUCH IMPRESSED THEN, BUT I HOPED THE PASSAGE OF TIME HAD MADE ME MORE ABLE TO “GET IT”, BUT ,’FRAID NOT! PERSONALLY, I THINK THE GUY IS OVERRATED, I HAVE GIVEN UP ON THE BOOK HALF WAY THROUGH,AND AM JUST GLAD MY SCEPTICISM FROM EARLIER YEARS MADE ME CAUTIOUSLY PAY JUST 99p FOR THIS ONE!

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