The Illustrated Man

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He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.

The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.

Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.

He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.

The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness...the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere...the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury's THE ILLUSTRATEDMAN is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.

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That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater

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Customer Reviews

Good Book.... Good Purchase
The book was good. It also arrived about 13 days before the estimated arrival date. The book came in excellent condition, just as the description provided.

2010-06-24 | amazon shopper (Texas, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Illustrated man tattoos you can watch
I heard about the book because it was a book one of my favorite characters Dr. Reed on Criminal Minds really liked, the character liked the book and gave a brief description of the content. I thought it was a pretty good book. The individual stories were not to long and they all actually reminded me of things you might see on that series The Twilight Zone , ya know the really old black & white show from back in the day with that dude in the suit with the weird voice. So if you wanna see a persons view on different topics from back in the day or you liked that old Twilight Zone show your prolly gonna like it alot.

2010-06-10 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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Brilliant Idea
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare science fiction authors who writes to provoke rather than simply entertain. His short stories, like his novels, are always deeper than they might seem at first glance, and require careful reading if you are going to get the most out of them. Happy endings are supplied only when called for, and for mood, there are few better writers anywhere.

The Illustrated Man may just have the finest way of connecting otherwise disparate short stories together that has ever been thought of. We have all seen those who have tattoos, and many of them, if you ask, have stories behind each of their decorations. But what if the stories are real? The setting, therefore, is not a place but a person, a body, a human canvas.

The stories themselves are of high quality. Some, like "The Long Rain," still resonate; who among us hasn't been caught in a storm that never seems to end? The emerging madness of the characters is haunting, even if the Venus we know today is not the Venus of the story.

Other stories are topical for the time of the book and are interesting for that reason. "The Other Foot," for example, deals with racial segregation reversed on a future Mars. But of course, the issue of race remains a challenge for Americans even today, and so the story is still relevant.

Other works of note include "The Fire Balloons," which raises the question of the nature of sin: must it be physical? And the ideas found in "The Exiles," about the degree to which fictional characters actually exist (later revisited in fascinating form by Joanne Greenberg in a story from her collection With the Snow Queen), raise questions about what it means to be real at all.

This is a collection well worth reading and rereading.

2010-03-09 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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great work of art
Bradbury is a really surprising story teller that never gets you bored. That collection is superb.

2010-02-22 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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wonderful short story collection, bound together by a metaphor
This is a very good selection of short stories that between themselves are unrelated. Bradbury came up with the theme of linking them through the Illustrated Man idea, which is very imaginative but doesn't quite tie them together closely enough. Still, there is real magic in the stories, perfect gems of sci-fi that stand on their own and can enthrall a child's mind and even an adult's. I remember reading with the greatest excitement 40 years ago and the stories stand today, though I have since moved on to more mature sci-fi writers, such as Octavia Butler and Frank Herbert.

Warmly recommended.

2010-01-19 (Balmette Talloires, France) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934

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Customer Reviews

Definitely not an "Object to be Destroyed"
Man Ray was a superbly inventive photographer able to ignore the borders bewtween art & commercial photography. Originally published in 1934 as "Photographs by Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934," this collection is an excellent look at his photo work during his most adventurous years. The book is divided into five sections: general subjects; the female figure; women's faces; celebrity portraits; rayographs.

Man Ray's female figures are an offbeat take on the male gaze in which the processes are as sexy as the women. Along with his female faces, they demonstrate why Man Ray was much in demand by fashionable magazines. The "celebrity" portraits are of his fellow male artists & writers, with the exception of Gertrude Stein - who can hardly be glamorized anyway. The rayographs were created by placing objects directly on film, but the experimental nature of Man Ray's art is seen throughout this inexpensive book from Dover Publications. Picasso, Eluard, Breton, Tzara & Rrose Selavy a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp contributed texts. Highly recommended.

Bob Rixon

2000-02-28 (NJ USA) | Helpful Votes: 31 | Rating: 5

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Love this book!
As with so many Dover books, 105 Works is a great bargain

1999-08-05 (NJ USA) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Guy Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals

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Rachael says, Guys who cook are hot! Step into the kitchen with these Top 30 meals with guy appeal. This collection of greatest hits features simple recipes with big flavors, perfect for date nights, game nights, or just hangin' out.

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Customer Reviews

simplified options for men (and others) who want a quick meal
This book has some great options for men and others who want quick meals. If you like meat, you'll enjoy this. If you're a vegetarian or watching your meat intake, maybe not so much, although she does mention vegetables from time to time.

Over all, a pretty good book with some quick and simple recipes for people who don't have a lot of time. It was good enough that I'd look at her other books and consider purchasing them.

2009-10-22 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Manly Cooking for Manly Men
"Guy Food" is Rachael Ray's attempt to cash in on her appeal with the guys. She's obviously no Bobby Flay or Guy Fieri,but she tries. She defines masculinity as eating meat. Maybe she should spend some time with Moby, Orlando Bloom, Sir Ian McKellen,or the frequently shirtless Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers--because they're all vegan or vegetarian. It would be a ray of light.

"Guy Food" is mainly hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, and chili, with plenty of cheese and dairy to keep the heart racing... until it clogs up. Nothing says love like processed meat. (Maybe in "Body of Evidence",Madonna killed her older lover for his $$$ through fatty food,not sex!!) "Guy Food" has the Rachael Ray staples--odd combinations,30 minute meals that take over a half hour,and obscure ingredients that cost the amount of a house's down payment.

"Guy Food" has its peculiar highlights-Manly Man's Chili (masculinity defined through chili--gender identity grad students,use this!),a hamburger with hot dogs,and spinach pasta with asparagus&arugula. If this is Ray's definition of masculinity through food,what is femininity? Let alone transgender or questioning?

2008-11-29 | music fan (Northern California) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 2

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Yummo!
She is funny and energetic and knows how to cook in my opionion and like all of the books I have of hers.

2008-04-01 (New York, NY) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Good Gift Book for Young Guys First Learning to Cook
Many young men mainly subsist on cold cereal, take-out pizza, and macaroni and cheese meals they make from a box. How will they ever develop past using the microwave for heating frozen foods? Rachael Ray's small book, 30 30-Minute Meals "Guy Food" can help.

If you already own Rachael Ray's 30-minute meals cookbooks, realize that these meals are reprints from those volumes.

If you are concerned about keeping down your weight, these meals aren't the best. You'll need to substitute lower-calorie versions of some of the ingredients.

But true to Rachael Ray's roots, the choices of spices and the ease of preparation are both very good.

Rachael seems to be assuming that the male chef hasn't spent much time in the kitchen before. The recommendations are unusually simple to prepare. But when I was 20, this small book would have been just about perfect for my skill and confidence level in the kitchen.

Here are some of my favorites in the book:

Outside-in bacon cheeseburgers (I hate the mess that cheese makes when it's on top!)
Manly Manny's chili
Blackened chicken pizza
Asparagus with orange and sesame
Spinach pasta with asparagus, artichoke, and arugula
Veal scaloppini with wine, mushrooms, and green olives
Tenderloin steaks with gorgonzola
Sirloin Bourguignonne burgers
John's haddock with bacon, onions, and tomatoes
Steak au poivre
Cubano burgers with mango-black bean salsa
Grilled halibut tacos with guacamole sauce
Tuna steak au poivre on white beans with peppers
Marinated grilled flank steak
Sweet 'n spicy chicken curry in a hurry
Delmonico steaks with balsamic onions and steak sauce
Chorizo and shrimp quesadillas with smoky guacamole
Balsamic pork tenderloins
Roasted ratatouille vegetables

As you can see, most young men will probably want to pick one or two items a week to prepare . . . perhaps for an eat-in date or for having the guys over to watch a game. The food is heartier than most would want to eat every day.

If this book is a success for you, I suggest that you graduate next to Rachael Ray 2, 4, 6, 8. That cookbook will allow you to have more variety and learn how to entertain small groups.

2007-03-19 | Jesus Makes Me a Practical Optimist (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 96,000 Helpful Votes Globally) | Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 5

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My guy loves it, and so does my brother-in-law
My husband got this book from his sister for Christmas and he loves it. He has cooked several of the dishes and they have all been great! If it means he will cook and I don't have to, I love it. My brother-in-law loved the blackened chicken pizza so much I am getting him the book for his birthday. The pecan crusted chicken was delicious and so were the rosemary potatoes. I'll admit when I first read it, it didn't fit my idea of guy food but like I said, my guy loves it. Go Rachael!

2007-02-07 | lovintheguyfood | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens

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With an essay by Ian Walker and additional contributions by Yaëlle Biro, Poul Mørk, Rainer Stamm, and Tomás Winter. Concordance of African objects edited by Letty Wilson Bonnell.
 

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Customer Reviews

Man Ray and African Art
Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens, by Wendy Grossman, is not your typical museum exhibition catalogue. Written to accompany a traveling exhibition that opened in Washington at the Phillips Colleciton, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of photography and of new interpretations of "primitivism." Carefully studying photographs of African art--not just by Man Ray but by a host of photographers, many unexpected ones--Grossman places these photographs in the context of modernism. Just as objects from beyond Europe made their way into modernist circles, so, too, did photography, and Grossman draws these parallels convincingly. Especially valuable is the attention Grossman pays to the African objects that drew the photographers' interest. Instead of simply lumping them together as "other," she studies their meaning, their provenance, and why they would have drawn the attention they did at a particular time. A concordance of the objects in the photographs, edited by Letty Wilson Bonnell, is provided at the back of the book to offer further information about the objects. Clearly written and persuasively argued, this book is accessible to expert and layperson alike. This is one of those exhibition catalogues that will live on long after the last photograph or object is shipped back to its lender.

2010-01-04 | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Man Ray's Celebrity Photos

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Masterful collection of 60 works by a supreme artist with an unerring ability to capture his subject’s personality on film. Revealing portraits of Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and many other luminaries. New English translations of Introduction and captions.

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Man Ray: Women

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Man Ray found the surreal in the commonplace, particularly in the female form, and this has made his photography some of the worldís most accessible and recognizable: his ubiquitous La Violin díIngres creates a cello from a womanís torso with the addition of curliqued vents inked on her sides; his classic image of shining cinematic tears glistening on a powdered cheek has been tucked into mirror frames all over the world. This collection of more than 130 pictures dated between 1920 and 1950 covers not only Rayís work as one of the worldís leading avant-garde artists--he was a tireless experimenter who participated in the Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist art movements--but also his commercial work. It includes fashion photography and advertising images; portraits of many artists, including Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp and Andr» Breton; and a portfolio of 26 Femmes. Art dealer Giorgio Marconi, who met May Ray in 1966 in Milan, contributes an insightful interview.

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Customer Reviews

High Art
Many photographers which shoot women are thinking that photos of beautiful women or may be nude women will be winning. But I think that it is quite the contrary. There are many such photos but very micro amount of them is high art in this sphere. Man Ray: Women are the high art. And nude photos are not photos for especially showing undressed women. This photos as and others appear works of art with full harmony all image.

2009-08-12 | photo alex guha (Moscow, Russia) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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