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The Highway
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Ray Bradbury
2,587 books25.1k followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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August 19, 2025
The Highway by Ray Bradbury
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Synopsis: This is about a family who lives on one side of a highway with a river and a field on it. That’s it. That’s the whole synopsis.
Review: It’s literally five and a half pages. HOW DO I RATE FIVE AND A HALF PAGES?? It didn’t really do anything, and I know there’s symbolism in it with them being on the natural side of the highway, which means they are detached from the outside world and stuff like that, but it was just okay. There’s literally no plot or anything. The way Bradbury describes things is nice, but I can’t really say much more about this cause of how short it is.
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Language: 0/10
Synopsis: This is about a family who lives on one side of a highway with a river and a field on it. That’s it. That’s the whole synopsis.
Review: It’s literally five and a half pages. HOW DO I RATE FIVE AND A HALF PAGES?? It didn’t really do anything, and I know there’s symbolism in it with them being on the natural side of the highway, which means they are detached from the outside world and stuff like that, but it was just okay. There’s literally no plot or anything. The way Bradbury describes things is nice, but I can’t really say much more about this cause of how short it is.
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November 13, 2017
Must be nice to live outside of time..
December 21, 2018
Felt like a filler, but good context.
March 26, 2021
It was okay. Super short and not too memorable.
September 4, 2021
[1951] La carretera o la autopista es una diminuta sensación de permanencia ante el final.
March 10, 2024
Another very brief story about different outlooks in life, What did he mean by the World?
June 19, 2025
More of a 2.5 star for me. Not much from it that really caught my attention, neither positive nor negative.
December 11, 2023
People are uninterested in the alien landing due to their own problems.
March 5, 2025
Another good piece of short fiction by Ray Bradbury. It tells the tale of Hernando living in a world after the United States has dropped atomic bombs in Japan. Hernando, and the people he sees in cars on the highway all fear the thought of atomic war and the "end of the world."
August 26, 2018
Listening to as part of The Illustrated Man
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