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Listen To The Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews (2010)

by Sam Weller(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1935554034 (ISBN13: 9781935554035)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Stop Smiling Books

review 1: There are a few writers whose work stays with you long after you've put the book on the shelf. Stories that echo through your mind; inspiring, provoking, relaxing, or motivating. Tales that evoke simpler times when life was buoyed by breezes bending dandelions in the backyard, or reminding one to contemplate their place in history. Loving stories that wrap you in their visions of good and evil, life and living, death and dying. All brought to life from within the pages of a book that smells and feels of the stories contained inside its covers.There are untold numbers of authors that can tell a good story, weave a compelling thriller, or pen a crafty mystery. But, there are precious few that can share their love of the tale, their love for life, and their love for each... more and every reader like Ray Bradbury can.About a year ago, literary writer and journalist Sam Weller compiled Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews. Bradbury, approaching age 91 this coming August, is still full of life, love, and many more stories, poems, plays and maybe an opera or two (yes, opera!). Weller's collection of interviews is reasonably arranged to capture a few facets of Bradbury's many accomplishments, interests, and personal highlights from his own life. Weller assembled years of conversations, talks and intimate communiques between himself and Bradbury.One thing stands clear among the name-dropping, travelogues, and writing guidance that gushes from every segment of Bradbury's comments - Love. Simple as it sounds, Bradbury wants to love and be loved. He loves anything and anyone that brings happiness to the world. He still lives the life of a child, relishing all manner of toys, memorabilia and reminders of good times. He loves that people love him and his work, but he does not seek fame. He loves the crowds of fans seeking his face and autograph - he never ducks a fan. He simply wants to enjoy the mutual revelry of their love for him and he for them.On the whole, it seems trite or self-serving on his part to say he wants only to Love. But, he really means it - that is his only objective in anything he does - to love it, to enjoy it.From the first time he put pen to paper when he was six years old, he writes to share stories of love - even if in the guise of dark places or outer space, the underlying theme is a singular desire to let the reader love the subject, the idea, or the possibilities unleashed from within the stories he tells.If you've never read Ray Bradbury, you are missing a chance to be loved.-RBR
review 2: A tremendously entertaining book. A complex, very human man who has clearly been in love with life since a child. The book is divided into chapters/topics like "Sexuality," "Politics" and "His Own Work." Bradbury proves with his answers that his views are his own and gives very convincing arguments in support of them. As he says, "I hate labels."Meeting him in person was one of the finest moments of my life. less

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