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# The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (P.S.)

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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (P.S.)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good but could have been better - doesn't answer "What made Ray Bradbury tick?"
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015*

Overall, I enjoyed the book, which is written by an author who is more of a Bradbury fan than someone who is coming to Ray Bradbury the man and his material cold. Weller’s does a good job in describing Bradbury’s life in a straight forward and chronological fashion, which is both its strength in terms of ease of readability, but also its weakness with regard to probing the depths of the man. Weller is a fan of Bradbury and they ended up being personal friends as result of the biography. I too am a fan of Bradbury’s books, but not to the point that I’m not aware of his short comings. Upon finishing “The Bradbury Chronicles” one comes away dissatisfied, almost as if the book has whet the appetite with an excellent entre in preparation for an amazing main meal, which then does not appear. The book shares a chronological history, interesting anecdotes and flotsam and jetsam concerning Ray Bradbury, but it doesn’t really get at the heart of what made him tick. You leave the book wanting to know more. Secondly, the biography doesn’t delve deeply enough into Ray’s signature novels – it gives what I feel is a brief overview of his main books such as the Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man and Something Wicked Comes This Way. Weller goes into the preparation of drafts, submissions to publishers and when the books were published, but he doesn’t pull apart plots, characters, motifs or the mechanics of the books, their origins or how they were put together. When he does start to do this the book becomes extremely interesting, but he does so far too infrequently. If you are a writer, you don’t really get much of an insight into Bradbury’s tools and his inner workings in relation to his stories. In terms of a whole vision of the man himself, whilst Weller does cover some of Bradbury’s infidelities, they get only cursory mention, and again whilst you are given many facts and events, you don’t come away with a strong flavour for what Ray Bradbury was really like and what drove him. His books and short stories of course speak volumes of the man himself, but we are given little insight into their gestation, construction and execution. Weller’s biography on Bradbury is good, but it could have been much better.

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    A Great Overall History of Ray Bradbury
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2020*

This book is a great tribute to the life and work of the author, Ray Bradbury. The author obviously knew Ray Bradbury well,  but the author does sugar coat certain things about his life. He shows all of the warts and the great parts of Ray's life. It's a well rounded biography.

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    A Page-Turner
  

*by D***K on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2019*

Sam Weller has managed to capture the essence of the boundless Ray Bradbury. The Bradbury Chronicles is an intimate portrait of a writer who has put his stamp on our culture. It is a page-turner and a must-read for every Bradbury fan.

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