A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury

Even in the thicket of his strange exotic garden, Elmo Crumley supplies the anchor that reminds us where the shoreline of fantasy stops.īut this novel is first of all a valentine to the movies and especially to the people whose vision and skills transform experience through their craft. There is a mystery element to this story, all right, and Detective Lieutenant Crumley puts in an encore appearance, although again his role is more about moral support and reality check than it is about crime-solving prowess.

But Crumley's presence is secondary at most. LibraryThing lists this novel as book 2 in the 'Crumley Mysteries' series, and I suppose you could call it that. In a feat of love as much as verbal skill, Bradbury achieves cinematic magic on the unadorned page-much as his unnamed main character does as a Hollywood screenwriter. Having just finished Bradbury's Death Is a Lonely Business as 2017 came to an end, I went straight on to its sequel, A Graveyard for Lunatics, to begin the new year. *I received a copy of this audiobook from the publisher for review purposes only.

I want to expand my reading horizon in the Bradbury universe. Bradbury has a lot of books/short stories to chose from, so if anybody has a recommendation, I'd be happy to hear it. I may even go back and listen to/read the first book of this series sometime in the future. I'm certainly glad I did listen to this book. A lot was going on, and I'm not sure if I could wrap my head around all of it, at least not until the end when everything came together. But if you asked me to describe this book in my own words, I couldn't. The characters in this book are interesting and a bit bizarre at times. Andrew Garman did a fantastic job on the narration. I listened to A Graveyard for Lunatics as an audiobook, and I have no regrets there. So let me just say, if you haven't read the first book, you should probably start there. This is the second book in the Crumley Mystery series and even though I hadn't read the first book, I decided to jump in and hopefully land on my feet.

I have a desire to read more by this author, and when the opportunity to read A Graveyard for Lunatics came about, I grabbed it. Previously I had only read one book by Ray Bradbury, and you can probably guess which book that is.

For most of this book, I had no idea what was going on. I'm going to be completely honest with you.

A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury