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A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. All those images and many more are inside this book, 31 of Bradbury's most arresting tales - timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart.

©1990 Ray Bradbury (P)2018 Recorded Books Anthologies & Short Stories Science Fiction Short Stories Heartfelt
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Mediocre stories of little interest and weak plot. Some good humor now and then, but not enough to make it work. Quit halfway

Decent narration.

Uninteresting

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the narration is sensitive, destroyed by all the unnecessary shouting. Impossible to listen to at the right volume. Very disappointing.

Great stories of real people

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A great, generous and varied selection of sci-fi and speculative stories. There is the occasional stereotype that hasn’t aged so well (most of the stories were written in the 1950s), in particular the idea that the Irish need alcohol to operate, however nothing is meant with malice.

There are no chapter titles and with over 30 chapters / stories good luck finding a specific story you’d like to listen / re listen to.

A great selection

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Unfortunately the highly caricatured and shouted dialogue by the narrator spoils the crafted writing. Gave up listening.

Dialog shouted and exaggerated

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The narrator is brilliant until it comes to the dialogue. Any emotional dialogue is about 200 decibels louder than the narration, making it impossible to listen to at night. It's a shame because he has an excellent voice. Far too shouty to be able to relax to, or to listen to on headphones.

Soft Narration But Shouted Dialogue.

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