A review by josiah17
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

"We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

More wonderful writing from Ray Bradbury. This is a nice collection of short stories displaying primarily humanity's destructive nature, but also some of our strengths as well. Bradbury's writing is haunting, melancholic, yet beautiful and poetic. He simply never ceases to amaze me with how well he understood the human soul and where that would take us in the future. 

Also, "There Will Come Soft Rains" is one of my all-time favorite short stories and I had not realized it was included in this collection, so that was a nice surprise to revisit. 

Highly recommend for everyone to read some Ray Bradbury at some point in their life, and this would be a solid choice.

"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robin's will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims in a low fence-wire;

And not one will know if the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

No one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone."
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