The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury

I was curious about his other work after reading Farenheit 451.  Bradbury seems to be quite good at the craft of writing.
The premise of this books, with stories embedded in animated tatoos on a man who lives as a social outcast, is brilliant.  At the beginning of the book, Bradbury exploits it well but it deteriorates into a loose framework for binding together a collection of disparate short stories - many of which are quite short.
Some of the short stories are interestingly bizarre in themselves.  Many of them blend a bizarre mix of science fiction and 1950s American T.V. culture à la "Father Knows Best" or "Leave it to Beaver".
Entertaining reading but not gripping enough to wade through in one go.