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| Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland | 
| Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 546608
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0380789663
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
UPC: 071001012958
EAN: 9780380789665
ASIN: 0380789663
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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Product Description
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming. But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth impish playwrights, and the boyos at Heeber Finn's pub. In a land where myth is reality, poetry is plentiful, and life's misfortunes are always cause for celebration, Green Shadows, White Whale is the grandest tour of Ireland you'll ever experience -- with the irrepressible Ray Bradbury as your enthusiastic guide.
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 Not his best August 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ray Bradbury was a science fiction icon, but there's a reason he didn't write "The Playboy of the Western World" or "Finnegan's Wake." The dialogue is all you get from this book. The rest of the book is a thin vehicle to get you from one conversation to the next. There are few descriptions and few insights. The dialogue itself is very humorous at parts, and in others it's obvious that this is Bradbury writing how the conversations should have gone, not how they really went. I've thoroughly enjoyed other works by Bradbury, but this wasn't one of them.
 The best of both worlds, fact and fiction May 31, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick. It is a hysterical account of his exploits in Ireland where he wrote the piece. It is also a work of fiction because he combined some of his previous short story writings about Ireland into the book. Bradubury masterly weaves both fact and fiction into a enjoyable tour-de-force. If you are an avid Bradbury fan, you will remember some of his earlier work and recognize the stories. If not, then I envy you because you will not be able to distinguish fact from fiction. Bradbury does both a wonderfull job of catching Irelands essence and terrible poverty of which he covers lightly. He also hints at the terrible genious of John Huston without going into the gory details. This book is a very fast read and is wonderfull. It is certainly deserving of the national book award it recieved.
Not the best Bradbury, but still worth while. February 18, 2001
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This didn't grip the same way Fahrenheit 451 or The Martian Chronicles or Something Wicked This Way Comes did. There are many entertaining and quite often fun stories and of course it is beautifully written. Bradbury is one of the best prose stylists and short story writers in American Lit, after all. It's not one of his classics but it's worth a consideration.
Great prose. January 5, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Green Shadows, White Whale is a tale about Ray Bradbury's travels in Ireland while helping John Huston write the screenplay for Moby Dick. The writing is absolutely wonderful. I have read many books in my life but I have rarely read one so beautifully written and well composed. There were paragraphs and passages that I read over two and three times simply because they were so tasty. The story is broken up into chapters which comprise little subplots of their own. This makes for easy reading because you can read a chapter or two at a time and still enjoy the entire book. Read this book.
Excellent Read. Funny, entertaining, though provoking. March 3, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ray Bradbury has done it again. Green Shadows, White Wales is the! best book i've read this year, or two years for that matter. From Finegan's pub and it's guild of drink lovers to a crazy fox-hunting director the book is neverending humor and good sprit. The book isn't that hard to read at all (maybe highschool level) good humor, interesting plot, historicaly teaching and a wonderful exploration of Ireland's funny side. Odd'ly enough though, the main character does resemble Ray Bradbury slightly, but I think Bradbury uses his own life to create fantastic tales and stories. A little bit of profanity but not much that would offend anyone (in other words, nothing on and on or harsh). I would definately recomend this book to teachers (of high school) and anyone who wants a good laugh and intriguing read.
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