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    A Graveyard for Lunatics
    A Graveyard for Lunatics
    A Graveyard for Lunatics
    Audiobook10 hours

    A Graveyard for Lunatics

    Written by Ray Bradbury

    Narrated by Andrew Garman

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    Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery-and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 15, 2018
    ISBN9781501966088
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    Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'

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    • 3/5
      I'm going to be completely honest with you. For most of this book, I had no idea what was going on. Previously I had only read one book by Ray Bradbury, and you can probably guess which book that is. 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. 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 didn't. I landed on my bum. So let me just say, if you haven't read the first book, you should probably start there.

      I listened to A Graveyard for Lunatics as an audiobook, and I have no regrets there. Andrew Garman did a fantastic job on the narration. The characters in this book are interesting and a bit bizarre at times. The story line was interesting. But if you asked me to describe this book in my own words, I couldn't. 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.

      I'm certainly glad I did listen to this book. I may even go back and listen to/read the first book of this series sometime in the future. 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 want to expand my reading horizon in the Bradbury universe.

      *I received a copy of this audiobook from the publisher for review purposes only. All opinions are my own.
    • 3/5
      Chosen at random after hearing about his death. It took a while - almost 1/3 of the book - for me to care about the characters or what was happening. Set in Hollywood in the 50s. Stage lot next to a cemetery. "Once upon a time there were two cities within a city. One was light and one was dark. One moved restlessly all day while the other never stirred. One was warm and filled with ever-changing lights. And when the sun went down each afternoon on Maximus Films, the city of the living, it began to resemble Green Glades cemetery just across the way, which was the city of the dead."
    • 4/5
      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.

      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.

      LibraryThing lists this novel as book 2 in the "Crumley Mysteries" series, and I suppose you could call it that. But Crumley's presence is secondary at most. 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. Even in the thicket of his strange exotic garden, Elmo Crumley supplies the anchor that reminds us where the shoreline of fantasy stops.

      But 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. It pays special tribute to special-effects man Roy Holdstrom, the fictional counterpart of Bradbury's close friend Ray Harryhausen, who is named in the dedication. Any film buff who dotes on the classics of early cinema should revel in this romp in the shadowlands between the real and the unreal. Although I'm not a true aficionado, with a library of collectibles and an encyclopedic knowledge of film history, I have seen a lot of old movies (some of them even before they were old), and I enjoyed Bradbury's evocation of the world beyond the guarded studio gates.

      The tale involves the mysterious reappearance on Halloween night, 1954, of the body of a long-dead movie mogul whose twisted history still haunts the living, from a volatile studio executive to a gifted film editor to a paranoid fan whose only life is his obsession with movie memorabilia. The passion of creators for their creations is personified in the Harryhausen character and displayed across the spectrum of actors, directors, and other ancillary personnel, all of whom seem as touched by madness as the villains of the earliest horror pictures. The main character, who identifies himself as "the Crazy," follows a trail of hints and seeming coincidences to uncover an old secret as dark as any in the old black-and-white spookers of his own youth.

      Even though I could see the solution coming, I enjoyed watching it play out against the permanently unreal backdrop of the motion picture world.
    • 4/5
      After the near perfection of Death is a Lonely Business, I was a bit put off by Graveyard. The story didn’t welcome me, seduce me, like the first one did. It ended much better than it started, but I think it was because of how intensely autobiographical the characters, and especially their interactions, were. It seemed like for every reference or allusion I understood, ten flew by me. Inside joke type things that I’m sure for Bradbury’s friends, were a treat to read. For us outsiders, it made the story very dense and the dialog quite opaque. I found myself rereading sentences, not because they were wonderful as Bradbury’s sentences usually are, but because I couldn’t figure out what he meant with the first pass.

      Eventually though, the story found some momentum and intrigue and even though I pegged the big plot reveal way ahead of time, it was still interesting to watch and I have the third in the series, the deliciously titled, Let’s All Kill Constance at the ready.
    • 4/5
      A twisty, looping mystery told in Bradbury's usual beautiful prose.
    • 4/5
      The second book of Bradbury's Venice trilogy is a great, if slightly odd follow-up to the excellent 1985 novel, "Death Is A Lonely Business". It would be followed by "Let's All Kill Constance" 13 years later in 2003. Perhaps we could hope that he's not finished yet with this series!
    • 4/5
      Ray Bradbury shows that not only can he frighten us with short tales of the weird and fantastic, he can also spin a novel-length thriller that could hold its head high in the crowd of the hard-boiled.

      This novel about a script writer for a Hollywood studio has some autobiographical elements (Bradbury himself has written some scripts in the 50s, and a character in the book is very similar to Ray Harryhausen, who is a friend of Bradbury's). I liked his evocative language, but the plot twists were somewhat predictable, and the characters were at times too far out... :)
    • 4/5
      Second of three (?) novels Bradbury wrote in the mystery genre, inspired by his own experiences as a young writer. Here a young screenwriter and his friend "Roy" (a film stop-action miniaturist specializing in dinosaurs, obviously based closely on Bradbury's long-time real-life friend Ray Harryhausen) are drawn into a murder mystery on Halloween (Bradbury's favorite holiday). Several characters first introduced in his earlier quasi-autobiographical novel "Death is a Lonely Business" reappear here... good fun, if not necessarily the best work of Bradbury's illustrious career.