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To me Something Wicked This Way Comes seems overwritten. At first I liked it, but after few chapters it started to annoy me. Nevertheless I could deal with that because there was some very beautiful sentences*, for example
Rain fell softly on town cupolas, chuckled from rainspouts, and spoke in strange subterranean tongues beneath the windows where Jim and Will knew fitful dreams, slipping out of one, trying another for size, but finding all cut from the same dark, mouldered cloth.
but sadly, t ...more
This had been on my TBR list forever. I was a very little kid when the movie came out, but I remember being absolutely traumatized by the commercials. The music and the terrifying carousel…nightmares! So, I expected the book to give me big creeps or big feels…. And (sad trombone) I kind of hated it!
I hated the style - the very poetic language, deliberately choppy form… UGH. BLERG. Stop tryingso hard, Bradbury.
At first it was nice because I grew up in a Green-type Town. The nostalgia for Illinoi ...more
I hated the style - the very poetic language, deliberately choppy form… UGH. BLERG. Stop tryingso hard, Bradbury.
At first it was nice because I grew up in a Green-type Town. The nostalgia for Illinoi ...more
Never having read Fahrenheit 451, this was my first brush with Bradbury, and I quite enjoyed it. The writing is energetic and the setting is intriguing - who doesn't like a carnival, and yet senses a hidden side?
The book more or less seemed to read itself, and felt almost like a rollercoaster in that you never know what comes next, but it'll be as exhilarating as frightening.
I found the characters believable to different degrees - they don't make boys like that anymore, I think, and Jim I foun ...more
The book more or less seemed to read itself, and felt almost like a rollercoaster in that you never know what comes next, but it'll be as exhilarating as frightening.
I found the characters believable to different degrees - they don't make boys like that anymore, I think, and Jim I foun ...more
3.5 stars
Jun 13, 2012
Ariel
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