Uma leitura um pouco difícil, sempre senti curiosidade para entender mais sobre a teoria dos caos e amo tudo que envolve efeito borboleta (sei que é um pouco amador falar que fiquei encantada por causa do filme, mas sempre fui apaixonada por tudo que envolve viagem no tempo e suas possíveis possibilidades). Creio que irei ler outros livros do mesmo autor.

Ray Bradbury: What a lovely, humane, emotional writer. I read a ton of these back in Junior High, but I liked them even better now.

An absolutely incredible writer of fantasy! Love Ray Bradbury! I often read his short stories to my students in advisory. Sound of Thunder...The Dragon...The Witch's Door...too many great stories to list!

I borrowed this book from my nephew who believes that Ray Bradbury is a poet hiding in the world of fantasy and science fiction. I absolutely agree with his assessment. Having read Ray Bradbury's stories since the 1970's, I was familiar with most of the stories in this collection. It was wonderful to fall back into these worlds. Many people today prefer stories that get right to the point, the action, so that they can move onto the next piece of fiction. If you decide to pick up this collection, set aside more than the time it might take you to read the story. Sip a beer, some tea, gaze at the world around you. I guarantee you will see Marianne ("The Great Fire"), Forester ("Here There Be Tygers"), Doug and his mother ("The Rocket Man"), and Colonel Freeleigh ("The Time Machine") -- you just never saw them before. And, given time for reflection, Mr. Bradbury holds a mirror up to the best of us -- Sim ("Frost and Fire"), the garbage man ("The Garbage Man"), Bob ("The Strawberry Window"), and Ricardo ("Sun and Shadow"). These are just a few of the 32 stories in this collection that, if you let them breath in your mind, will broaden your view of humanity, science, and the universe.

The title story, "A Sound of Thunder" (a better story I would dare say than the original title one, "The Golden Apples of the Sun"), was the one which drew me into this book, as I imagine happened to many people. Bradbury never dissapointed me, and I had a really pleasant memory of "The Martian Chronicles", so I knew already he is a brilliant short-storyteller. Still, this compilation left me... cold. There are some stories (the aforementioned, "The Fog", "Powerhouse", "The Long Rain", "Frost and Fire") that I found dazzingly beautiful and engaging, but for most of the 32, I couldn't find them interesting enough to care. There are no bad stories, and the writing is consistently good, but many of them lead to predictable endings or meaningless ones, or waste a lot of potential in the way. And being the book not really long, but neither so short you wouldn't care about that, it soon turns a problem.

I'm not sure if I would recommend it even to a Bradbury fan, or rather find another collection that picks up his best stories. For me, this one is just acceptable, and has a lot of room to improve.

I will say the first half of the book wasn't as compelling as the second half, but once you do make it to that point, it's honestly all worth it. Not every story is life changing, and the book honestly ends with 2 of the most boring stories in the entire Anthology, but I think there's something to gain from every single one. So exciting, refreshing, and thought-provoking. I'm glad this was my introduction to Bradbury, I want more!!

I’m always mesmerized and in awe of Bradbury’s work. The collection of short stories in A Sound of Thunder is no different. I admit, there were four or five stories that I just skimmed through, because I didn’t find them that interesting. But the rest are rich with creativity and imagination.

The ones that I loved tremendously:

“A Sound of Thunder” is about time travel and the consequences of it. Written in a concise manner, this is the ultimate moral story for time travel.

“The Murderer” can easily be a criticism of our today world, and yet it was written decades ago.

“The Long Rain” is about a planet where rain doesn’t stop falling. Bradbury offers the reader ample opportunities to think about aspects of every day life that one rarely takes the time to think about.

The story that stuck in my mind is “Frost and Fire”. I didn���t know what to expect from the title alone, but by the time I finished the second page, I was hooked! Wow! Loved every page and every word of this story. Part of me wanted to know what was going to happen and the other part didn’t want it to end.

I liked the stories I read but I lost interest three-fourths of the way depsite the fact that I love Bradbury's work. Maybe I'll go back and read the last 8 stories one day. I have to say though that about half the stories aren't science-fiction at all.

Първи досег с разкази на Бредбъри в живота ми. Да, има и такива хора. Няма да бъде последен, това е сигурно.
Първата дума, която ми идва на ум, щом си помисля за сборника, е изящество. Дори в превод. Изящна, прекрасна проза, която се лее и не тежи, нито твърде описателна, нито твърде постна, всяка дума точно на мястото си.
И ти се иска и ти да можеш така, и се питаш колко трудно се постига тази лекота и... и... и...
В съзнанието ми остават Денят, в който заваля неспирно, Трескав сън, Те бяха смугли и златооки, Случайно да заспиш, Онзи, който чака, Чудото, Смъртта и девойката.
Но това е само примерен списък, защото в действителност всеки един от разказите заслужава да бъде споменат, всеки е по своему прекрасен.

Bradbury Classic Stories 1: From the Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury (1990)

A selection of 32 weird and occasionally wonderful short stories taken from two previous collections. Many of them are quite dated, sentimental and overly nostalgic, but there are a few gems in here. Here There Be Tygers, Frost and Fire, The Fog Horn, the April Witch, and The Golden Kite, The Silver wind, were my favourites. A great writer, nonetheless, and Bradbury's imaginative use of the English language is always astounding.

I only read "A Sound of Thunder" but of course for such a short story, there wouldn't be a separate book.

Eckels pays 10 thousand dollars to go on a trip to a period of time where he can shoot dinosaurs. Not just any dinosaur. A Tyrannosaurus rex. Along with two other hunters and two experts, he goes back in time, where he is warned to not touch anything that is outside the "Path" because it could have huge consequences in the future. Stepping on a plant here could mean the wiping out of whole nations in the far future. Despite being warned, he steps in a puddle of mud and accidentally kills a butterfly. They come back to see a the same alphabet used in a weird way, the people's perspectives changed dramatically and even the election results changed.

The story is a play on the "the butterfly effect". The only thing clever to me was the use of an actual butterfly.