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I finished Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories "Quicker Than the Eye" over the weekend. Though I'd never read any of the stories before, some of them felt very familiar. I had read a story very similar to "Last Rights" before, perhaps a different version because the details are different but the idea is very much like one I had read before. My sentimental favorite was "Exchange", it's a library thing.

I don't think this was Bradbury's strongest collection of stories. In some places the action felt implausibly hurried. It's a characteristic of Bradbury's writing that sometimes he makes characters so inherently frantic that they feel like cardboard. It spoils what might otherwise be a delightful plot (as in "Finnegan"). I'm still a sucker for his old fashioned feel even in modern day settings. Yes, sometimes it doesn't ring true (as in "At the End of the Ninth Year"), but it's a nice place to visit when you have to deal with modern society or lack thereof every day.

47. Ray Bradbury "Quicker Than The Eye"

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