Chatterbox: Blab About Books

I had to read this for school, and it was way more cool that I'd expected. I thought "Oh, just a book about Martians and all, we'll see how much imagination this dude has, at least." No way! This book was super dense, super cool, super exciting, and, therefore, took me a long time to read like other deep books.

Each, oh, 2 chapters are part of one story about a new Expedition. Expeditions 1-3 get shot or killed in another awesomely creative way by the Martians, Expedition 4 makes it. And after that, a whole bunch of people come to Mars, set up towns, cities, civilizations, etc. The stories are almost like separate stories, what happens in them isn't really connected to everything else, but wether they stay alive or not to come back afterwards does. It only has a little bit of chapters, but it's like, a 300-400 page book. And in each one, Ray Bradbury introduces whole new people, all new settings, personalities, positions. And each story completely pulls you in and draws you under the moment you start reading. 

Even after everyone floods into Mars, the excitiment never stops there. Not to spoil stuff, and to mystify you to go and read it, I won't give you the exacr details. People go on adventures, some get killed, some themselves kill, it's all a very complex, twisted, murderous affair. After every story, I'd present my mom with the details of the latest kill. Be like, "Oh, yeah so this person did this and got shot, this person did this and got shot, then there was another expedtition, did some stuff and got shot."

So. Not to bore you any longer, but whoever's read this book, I wanna know what you thought... and if you wanna read it, etc.