The Stories of Ray Bradbury

"My ancient and intuitive taste tells me that Ray Bradbury's stories are meretricious more often than not... because his imagination so regularly becomes mired in genteel gush and self-pity, because his environing cliches have made him nearly oblivious to new data from any source...some of Mr. Bradbury's more memorable tales achieve [the] last and largest purpose of myth-making--offering symbolically effective ways of thinking about the unthinkable. Even as mythmaker, however, Mr. Bradbury's failures outnumber his successes..."Ray Bradbury is the author of 'The Stories of Ray Bradbury', published 1980 under ISBN 9780394513355 and ISBN 0394513355.