This is a hard book to review. Without a doubt, Ray Bradbury is a fantastic writer. This is a collection of short stories. They remind me a bit of Roald Dahl who is one of my favorite authors. The stories are twisty and compelling. My only complaint is that they all end quite abruptly. I'm sure it was intentional but I often found myself just getting into the story only to turn the page and find that it was over. Still, a great book written by one of the greatest writers.

Did not finish.

i maintain that bradbury is one of the single most underrated short fiction authors of our time. i kind of wish that he had published his sci-fi under a pen name. (i love his sci-fi too, but his short stories are amazing.) anyways, i've never regretted reading anything of his.

Se titula “Conduciendo a ciegas”, pero también podría haber sido “No hay nadie al volante”.

I believe Stephen King once said that short stories are sometimes more difficult than novels and its always great to read a collection by one of the masters.

Reading Bradbury is so much fun and the pure imagination and writing style is amazing. I find myself amazed at the talent that some of the greats bring to us, the faithful reader.

21 stories that are just part many things- social statement, wit, humor, observation, etc.

You can't go wrong.

Somehow I expect more from this book. Many of the stories were new to me. They seemed dated.

4.5 stars.

Honestly, there's like one good story in this and its not even "Driving Blind". I'd say this is Ray Bradbury scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to publish. Not very impressed at all, fairly disappointed.

I really didn't like this collection of short stories to start with, so much so that I put the book down for a few weeks. Then giving it a second chance I got sucked into the magical, touching tales and ended up loving it.

Adam C. Zern shares his thoughts . . .

"Due to so many books being written each year and by so many different authors, I often find myself shying away from reading multiple books by the same author. I think there is value in spending precious reading time with a diversified group of authors because they all, by nature of their individuality, bring their own peculiar set of knowledge and experience. Yet, every once in a little while, an author so impresses me I'm willing to spend a hugely disproportionate amount of time with their work in comparison to other authors. For me, one of those authors is Ray Bradbury. I have read many of his books; I loved most of them and hated none of them. I find his imagination, his characters, his stories, and his prose so compelling, inventive, and entertaining that I have gone back to him again and again and fully expect to continue to do so in the future.

Driving Blind is the third collection of short stories I have read from Ray Bradbury. Although I felt it was the weakest of the three, The Illustrated Man and The October Country are the other two, it still was worth reading. Most of the stories in Driving Blind are far less fantastical than he seems wont to write. It could be seen as an interesting change of pace for him, but I felt it made many of his stories less intriguing and less memorable. There are several stories from The Illustrated Man especially I will never forget, and they were based heavily in science fiction or in some other kind of fantasy element.

Yet, as much as I liked his other collection of short stories better, I had to still admire Bradbury for what he's best at. He is a wonderful writer, and he provides some great stories within this collection. The dark, domestic tale Fee Fie Foe Fum is twisted and extremely entertaining. House Divided is probably one of the most honest narratives I've read of a child coming into adolescence. It's so true it made me feel uncomfortable. There are certainly others worth mentioning, but to say the collection as a whole is worth reading is sufficient.

I have yet to read a bad Bradbury book. Driving Blind is no exception. It's not his best work. But one of Bradbury's 'so-so' works of fiction tramples into dust most other contemporary writing. He very deservedly claims one of my most favorite authors honor, and I look forward to the next book I read of his."

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I've never read a Bradbury story I didn't like. His writing captivates in a way nobody else's can. Still, this isn't my favorite of his collections. There are gems here, but also a few that didn't quite click with me, story-wise, although the writing itself is wonderful throughout.

It’s odd to rate anything by Bradbury lower than a 5 but these stories were just not for me. I don’t love short stories to begin with, and usually Bradbury is the exception, but they can’t all be winners when you’re as prolific as he was.