Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines: A Fable

by Ray Bradbury

Book Overview

America's most beloved storyteller--an authentic original (Time)--spins a fantastic, fanciful tale of a young boy's dreams of freedom and flying. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380977044
• ISBN13: 9780380977048
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

It's Bradbury

Dear reader from Albuquerque New Mexico. Your neither, your just a social climber who hasn't gotten anywhere. Like ray olson the Commissar from the (Fahrenheit 451)American Library Association. Although the illustrations are poor.

A really unusual Fable

I picked up this book because I'm a fan of Ray Bradbury, and it was one of the featured books around Christmastime. It's a short book, which is nice, Bradbury gives the fable without a lot of excess writing. There is something about the book that really drew me in while I was reading it. Maybe it was the wonderful black and while drawings that are scattered through the book, illustration various scenes. Maybe it was just the story itself, the story of a young boy who learns to think and feel with his heart and mind, and learns to fly with the help of a most unusual god. Whatever the reason the book drew me in, it was a valid one. The book is a good one, with an important moral, provided you take the time to sit down and read it.

A book for all aside from the jaded and the cynical. Jump!Ju

Forget the critics' jaded slant. Ahmed is a wonderful story, chock full of inspiration and guidance in bounds. Do keep in mind however that this is a "fable" and not one of his longer, more in depth novels.Although steeped in sometimes confusing philosophical banter, Ahmed is more than worth the extra time spent reading very closely as to carefully digest all the hidden wonderment and life inspiring shouts. Each read through, should provide for only more clarity and understanding of Mr. Bradburys' secret recipe for living life as it should be, to it's fullest.A great book to help remind you during times of despair what living is all about.There! Take that BOOKLIST and others. Poke, stab, poke!

Bradbury... mas del maestro

Ahmed tiene doce años. Acompaña a su padre en una caravana que atraviesa el desierto. En la oscuridad de la noche, Ahmed cae de su camello y se pierde en el inmenso paisaje de arena. Desesperado y solo, comienza a llorar. Sus lágrimas despiertan a una extraña estatua de bronce, semienterrada en la arena, que le dice: "Soy amigo del silencio, compañero de la penumbra, heredero del amanecer ... Soy el dios de todos los cielos y aires y vientos que jamás soplaron en la tierra desde que el Tiempo comenzó". Para consolar a Ahmed, el dios le concede el don de volar, y los dos emprenden una aventura espectacular. Las maravillas y las penas del mundo, el pasado y el presente desfilan ante sus ojos. Con cada revelación, Ahmed aprende todo lo que la vida puede ofrecer. El maestro Bradbury ofrece una fábula encantadora para chicos de todas las edades. "Me han enterrado, matado mil veces y encerrado en mil tumbas sin nombres. ¿Quiénes?, gritó Ahmed Los soñadores que no sueñan, los soñadores que no hacen. Los que dudan y matan el sueño. Los muertos que caminan, que ven cielos sin aves y mares sin naves. Deja que tu alma instruya a tu corazón, que tu corazón hable a tu lengua. Exhala. Celebra. ¡Grita! Salta al vació y construye tus alas en la caída. La locura es coraje. " Un gran libro, definitivamente un must-read para los seguidores de este, uno de los narradores de lirica mas bella de la literatura norteamericana.