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Ray Bradbury was a brilliant writer whose gift with the language goes beyond genre. This book is generally classified as a dark fantasy but his style is definitely Literary. I would not call this a page-turner. I had to keep going back to really savor the words and let them sink in.
There are a lot of Big Issues here: good vs. evil, nostalgia for childhood, fear of death and the unknown. The main characters are Will and Jim, two 13 year old boys in a small town, but I would say the real focus is ...more
There are a lot of Big Issues here: good vs. evil, nostalgia for childhood, fear of death and the unknown. The main characters are Will and Jim, two 13 year old boys in a small town, but I would say the real focus is ...more
I liked the themes, which are timeless and poignant. The story seemed decent. The writing, however, left much to be desired. The few times that things were expressed beautifully were not enough to salvage the rest of it. In short, ideas were solid but execution needs work.
As beautifully as Bradbury captured summer in Dandelion Wine with warm evenings, slamming screen doors, and fresh-mown grass, he does the same with depicting the skittering leaves, dangerous darkness, and frightening Halloween-like specters of autumn.
Something Wicked This Way Comes read like a Mike Flanagan show to me...It sometimes has great and deep things to say, but other times it chokes itself in endless monologues, using a whole bunch of words to say something incredibly simple when three words really would've sufficed.
Something Wicked This Way Comes does atmosphere really well. You get spooky October vibes throughout most of this book...It's also vastly overwritten. Yes, Bradbury does gorgeous writing well. But he also writes things ...more
Something Wicked This Way Comes does atmosphere really well. You get spooky October vibes throughout most of this book...It's also vastly overwritten. Yes, Bradbury does gorgeous writing well. But he also writes things ...more
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