I Sing the Body Electric!

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Travel on an unpredictable and unforgettable literary journey. Find a horrified mother who gives birth to a strange blue pyramid. Encounter an amazing Electrical Grandmother who comes to live with a grieving family. Meet an old parrot who learned over long evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway, and becomes the last link to the last link to the great man. Each of these magnificent creations has something to tell us about our own humanity - and all of their fates await you in this collection of 28 classic Bradbury stories and one luscious poem.

©1946, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1976 Ray Bradbury (P)2017 Recorded Books

Terrible narration

Stories are great, narration is terrible. Half the time the reader is mumbling (or recording is low quality) and you have to turn up the volume to understand it. Then he's suddenly yelling or crying way too loud and breaking your ears. The weird accents are also completely unnecessary. Audiobook producers, please just read the book, don't try to act it out. Leave it to listeners to use their imagination.

Gumdrops and pixie dust drivel

I keep trying to find something by Bradbury that is captivating or intriguing, but have been disappointed so far. These stories are never convincing and are just this mindless stream of consciousness drivel. It is clear that he was paid by word count. The outlandish plots are really farcical and hard to even take seriously. I put him in the same league as O Henry for being readable but nothing spectacular. Good narrator but not much to work with.

So many interesting stories. Excellent narration.

This book was filled with fascinating stories ripe with ideas and philosophies to stretch your mind; whether you agree with them or not. The narrator did an excellent job making the characters real and bringing the stories to life.

Bradbury, yes. Narrator, no.

Ray Bradbury is great as always.

This narrator is not to my taste.

If you like your books performed, acted out, like a play then you might like this. I don't. I prefer to hear a straightforward, not bland, reading with some intonation for different voices and so on. Reading a book is about using your imagination to embellish and create more than that. A reader like this takes that all away. Clearly he put a lot of work into this narration. Maybe he loves Ray Bradbury as much as I do and just got carried away. But I quickly got tired of feeling like I was being shouted at during an emotional scene or hearing another overblown dialect.

This is the only Audible book I have gotten that I really wish I had returned.

MIssing Table of Content

Weird it has "33 Chapters" for 18 stories, but you can't just pick a story.