What a title!
Bradbury gave this collection of short stories a bold title reminiscent of Walt Whitman's confident and beautiful poems. Unfortunately, for me, the book didn't live up to its title. I Love Ray Bradbury, I truly do, but this was the book of his that I've enjoyed the least (I haven't read them all yet, but I'm working on it.)
It sounds like it would be fantastic (there's even a story with a robot Abraham Lincoln for goodness sake) but it just seemed more contrived to me than his other writing.
I'm glad that I read it, but it wouldn't be the Bradbury book I'd recommend. Instead start with "The Martian Chronicles", "Fahrenheit 451", or even "Farewell Summer".
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