Literary Gems - A Sound of Thunder & Other Stories by Ray Bradbury

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Have you experienced being taunted by the presence of a certain author (meaning you kept bumping into his or her name for a while) then suddenly, in a regular bookstore visit, you bumped into him or her again? This was the case with me with Ray Bradbury. There was a week when my friends online like Jay of Bibliophilopolis and Risa of Breadcrumb Reads mentioned Ray Bradbury, which got me curious about him. I’ve never read any of his works but several bloggers are raving about him. My interest peaked, I went to La Belle Aurore Bookshop to buy a book (not by Ray Bradbury, mind you), but there he was, his “A Sound of Thunder & Other Stories” practically glaring at me from the table in the center of the room, teasing me to buy. And buy I did, to finally put an end to his taunting.

Ray Bradbury, the author of more than 30 books, is the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Some of his best-known works are Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. A writer for both theater and cinema, he has adapted 65 of his stories for television’s The Ray Bradbury Theater. He won an emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Trees and was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives in Los Angeles, California. (taken from A Sound of Thunder & Other Stories)

Have you read any work by Ray Bradbury? I have read A Sound of Thunder and it’s good, but I will share more about it in a separate post along with a couple of more his short stories.

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Literary Gems is a new weekly element at Simple Clockwork, featuring books I have bought from La Belle Aurore Bookshop or wanted to buy there or should be read. These books could range from classics to romance to children’s books. The bookshop is located at Hernan Cortes, Mandaue City, Cebu.


- Nancy -