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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy angeljaneannClassic sci first, sci fantasy4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Not what you'd expect but still pretty goodBy Scott A. KinkadeDriving 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 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.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bradbury's short fiction is even more haunting than his science fictionBy Eric D. AustrewI 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. 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.

.com Reading Ray Bradbury is like going through a door into a nostalgic, odd America that never existed, a universe of strange possibility that brings to mind the haunting memories of childhood. The short stories in Driving Blind are vintage Bradbury, with a pleasant smattering of ideas: dark fantasy, boyhood sense of wonder, Twilight Zone-esque twist. These 21 stories (4 are reprints) were inspired by a dream Bradbury had in which his muse, blindfolded, drove him to destinations unknown. We're glad he went along for the ride. Spare word portraits will transport you to a world of scratchy phonograph records and cuckoo clocks, evil garbage disposals and Mexican border-town circuses. Bradbury fans will enjoy revisiting the worlds of his imagination, while those new to the master will find themselves in need of another shot of Bradbury... quick. --Therese Littleton " A preeminent storyteller... An icon in American literature." -- Virginian Pilot"A must...Bradbury returns in top form... He paints vivid word pictures." -- Library Journal"Remarkable...intensely told...The easiest book this year to read. -- Miami HeraldAbout the AuthorIn a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011 at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include , , , , and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of . He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."

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