Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99 (Hardcover) by Ray D Bradbury

from jwcooper3

There are two novella in this collection. The first, Somewhere A Band is Playing is vintage Bradbury; the stuff of his early short stories. I have run across the second, Leviathan in it's previous forms and have never been able to warm up to it. This version is no exception. The language is over ...

from DRFP

Somewhere a Band is Playing wasn't really my thing. Bradbury's prose is too saccharine and the ending is a muddle, a poor attempt at some sort of dramatic tension. Surprisingly I preferred Leviathan 99. The prose is a little less sweet this time around, there's more of an edge and Bradbury does a...

from edecklund

These 2 novellas are typical Ray Bradbury. His language is so evocative it often sounds like poetry. I recently heard Neil Gaiman speak and he said the best way to experience Poe was to hear him. I've felt the same way about Bradbury for quite some time.He was one of the few sf authors in our lib...

from edecklund

These 2 novellas are typical Ray Bradbury. His language is so evocative it often sounds like poetry. I recently heard Neil Gaiman speak and he said the best way to experience Poe was to hear him. I've felt the same way about Bradbury for quite some time.He was one of the few sf authors in our lib...

from DRFP

Somewhere a Band is Playing wasn't really my thing. Bradbury's prose is too saccharine and the ending is a muddle, a poor attempt at some sort of dramatic tension. Surprisingly I preferred Leviathan 99. The prose is a little less sweet this time around, there's more of an edge and Bradbury does a...