One More for the Road audiobook

With the recent passing of Mr. Ray Bradbury, I wanted to read a collection of his stories. ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD is a great collection. Images drip from the pages. Scenes radiate long after a story has finished. Sometimes his words seem to be a flash of light, uttered by a being trying to be understood but can't because the limitations of imagination vary between every Reader. For this, I say thank you thank you thank you. You were truly a pioneer, Mr. Bradbury.If you don't want to read a full collection, read these ones:1. Heart Transplant2. In Memoriam 3. Tete-aTete4. The Dragon Danced at Midnight5. The Nineteenth 6. Autumn Afternoon 7. One More for the Road8. Time Intervening9. The Enemy in the Wheat 10. My Son, Max11. The F. Scott/Tolstoy/Ahab Accumulator 12. The Cricket on the HearthAnd if you really like to read about a writer and their writing process, be sure to read the afterword: Metaphors, the Breakfast of Champions. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Ray Bradbury's books are such a labor of love -- love of a place that is Southern California, a past that is forever gone but could occasionally be visited, of friends strangely morphed or gone but not forgotten -- that they are as much part of the fabric of life as a literary production. There are 26 stories in his 2001 collection One More for the Road, 17 of which are original to this volume. I liked so much of the book that I would have a hard time isolating individual stories, but I will try nonetheless."First Day" tells what happens when high school friends agree to meet 50 years to the day after a particular date. What will they talk about? "After the Ball" is about a strange, sad ride on the old Red Cars to Venice Beach. "The Dragon Danced at Midnight" is a tale for film critics who try just a tad too hard to be postmodern. "Autumn Afternoon" is about cleaning up the attic of your memories. I particularly liked "The Laurel and Hardy Alpha Centauri Farewell Tour," which made me realize that L&H will live forever in some form or other. I could keep going on, but won't. It would just bbe adding more words.These are words, but I lack the feeling with which Bradbury imbues his words. The feeling and the love. I will never get tired of Bradbury's novels and stories.

Another proof of Bradbury’s diverse genius. He’s always brilliant, no matter what genre he’s working on.

I was introduced to Ray Bradbury through his science fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. Being intrigued by the author, I continued to read more and realized Bradbury is just a great fiction writer - science or otherwise. "One More for the Road" was on a bookshelf in my house, so I must have read it many years ago. Fortunately, I didn't remember most of the stories so it was like reading it fresh.This book is a collection of short stories. Many are not even stories, but scenes or brief glimpses of life. Bradbury doesn't just write words, he conducts them like an orchestra. He is the master of vivid description. He evokes deep emotion with a pastel of language. The story or idea often creeps up on you without you realizing it. He is enormously creative and sometimes kind of twisted or malevolent. Reading this book is a workout for your brain and emotions. I don't always 'get' the idea of a story, but I always react to it.It is a fun read and a great workout for your brain.

A brilliant mix of funny, cerebral and heartbreaking stories. Most were all three.About half of them really hit home with me, and while I thought the rest were compelling and interesting, I didn't personally connect with each and every one - nor could I have expected to. That's the only reason I rated the book 4 stars rather than 5.

In audio book format read by Campbell Scott, what an accompaniment to 10 hours behind the wheel. Not a travelling book per se but the 25 short stories engaged so many human emotions that could never have been achieved by radio or similar. Love - lost, present and unrequited, the loss of innocence, loss of life, loss of hope, loss of senescence. Rediscovery of authors, actors playfulness and it wouldn’t have been Bradbury without some political barb. Not the usual Bradbury offering but the last few pages giving us insight into inspiration and drive for these stories is essential reading in itself. A thank you, posthumously, to a wondrous writer,

I read this for a book group discussion. While I've read a few of Bradbury's more well-known novels like "Fahrenheit 451" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes," I'd never read any of his short stories. This collection of 25 stories are very, very good. Many of them are reflective of the lateness in his life that he wrote many of them. One story in particular made me cry (and I re-read it to Joel and STILL cried): 'The F. Scott/Tolstoy/Ahab Accumulator.' This one story alone was so beautiful and well-written that I could teach a class on it! Some of the stories are re-publications from decades before, but most of them are original for this book. Let me know if you like it.

An enjoyable collection of characters, many older, most without the sci-fi element that Bradbury is famous for. But his ability to portray humanity, real, raw, and at times believably unhinged, is all there. Don't read this collection of short stories with the expectation of a new incarnation of his younger storytelling days. This is, in comparison, un-fantastical - regular, average, everyday people behaving unexpectedly, experiencing the unusual, and told so well that the unnatural seems quite believable.

This is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury and, as might be expected, there is a range of topics and quality of writing. Some of the stories were average, a couple were, to me, strange and I am not sure that I understood what he was trying to say (perhaps the fault is with me), and a couple were outstanding and very touching.

Another beautiful collection of short tales by the inimitable Ray Bradbury. His ability to reignite childlike sparks dormant in all of us is truly unique in American literature.Reading these stories is to fall in love again with the basic elements of fiction: wonder, love, magic. What an original Mr. Bradbury was.

Fifteen years gone past and around thirty books later Ray Bradbury is still my favorite author. Five stars, Mr. Bradbury, five stars!

A surprising number of non SF/F stories here, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

This is a good collection of Ray Bradbury's musings. There are several stories, full of his inventive genius and style. This is a good short read of fiction by one of the best writers the twentieth century United States produced.