Comments on: We’ll Always Have Paris: Stories

By: John A. Karr

John A. Karr — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:35:24 +0000

All writers have their good and bad stuff. What about Norman Mailer — whose stuff I’ve never clicked with — comparing sex to excrement? Talk about a true middle fingered salute to the literati…

Well, maybe not. They probably like it like that.

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:30:51 +0000

I, too, think Bradbury is one of the greatest writers of our time, but I now approach any “new” work by him with great care. I liked NOW & FOREVER, but I remember reading THE CAT’S PAJAMAS and just finding it awful. That one was so bad for him, it made me angry.

By: john a. karr

john a. karr — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:07:11 +0000

Well, you have me schized out a bit on this review. On the one hand, who the eff are you to criticize on of the great writers of our time? On the other hand, no writer is a god and if a story is falls short of a critics expectations, then call it as it is. On still another hand (Martians have three, btw), it is likely these were never printed before because Bradbury didn’t try to get them pubbed or they didn’t find a market. Perhaps they were only practice, as Laston has pointed out.

But all in all, since Bradbury is in twilight, I’ll likely purchase these, as I have a feeling even his practice sessions can instruct and entertain.

By: Laston Lastof

Laston Lastof — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:39:08 +0000

dear reviewer and readers of this review
I have not read this book and it is unlikely that i would …

I have long been a fan of bradbury and write myself,
it seems very likley that his publisher is asking him to publish work that was merely, practice session s…
i think of the beatles anthology a number of years ago where every comment or track laid in the studio and captured by the mic was “remixed” and published …

I wonder how many would watch my video movies if i left them unedited — every time i swung the camera off the tripod and raced to focus on new action … not shutting the camera off in-between for fear of not turning it back onto record once there…
every swing of the lense … my feet … the ground… the sky …the refocus …
not pretty …
it doesn’t belong in publication …
if the practice stuff belongs then i have some really great poetry i wrote this one time when i was heart broken and feeling sexually frustrated. I had no one to express myself at so i wrote poems about the rage and against humanity …
they all begin with …
The blood red moon hung low in the dark purple night sky …
yours

By: Alan Cranis

Alan Cranis — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:10:39 +0000

I agree, Blu. And I’ve never been fond of the both-names-in-one-word logo that Bradbury’s publisher has been using of late.

By: Blu Gilliand

Blu Gilliand — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:41:11 +0000

That is one hideous cover.