This review talks about the unique atmosphere of these books, covering the first two volumes - Master and Commander and Post Captain . Ray Bradbury is a master storyteller with a very rich imagination. The book Driving Blind is a collection of four old and seventeen new of Bradbury's short stories, published in 1997.
Poetry is probably a more fitting title.
Umberto Eco's first major novel, The Name of the Rose , was turned into a most impressive movie. Later, Eco maintained that his second novel, Foucault's Pendulum , could not be successfully rendered as a film. The Island of the Day Before goes beyond that. It is a masterpiece that no producer will seriously attempt to adopt. His excellent novel The Bloody Hoax , recently translated into English, is a comedy involving harsh criticism on the blood libels that were common at the time in Russia.