Ahh, Bradbury. You were a master wordsmith. We miss you. Ray Bradbury is chronically underappreciated, in my view, although I totally understand why this is so. The fact is, you have to have a deep and abiding love for the English language to really get Bradbury, and even then he, like many other v...
I read 20ish pages, and I wasn't impressed with the style, so I put it down, but I kept thinking about it. Then I picked it up again, and that was it... I fell in love... short little book, but I kept last 50 pages unread for a couple of months, I was keeping those pages as my secret weapon, as a Jo...
bookshelves: classic, boo-scary, fantasy, re-read, radio-4, autumn-2011, gothic, play-dramatisation, scary-clowns-circus-dolls Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Cindee Read from March 14, 2009 to October 29, 2011 I am really on a Bradbury kick at the moment - and loving it all.A re-visit via BBC:Drama...
Here I've been for the past years, happily reading well-written fun genre series, and then I decided to participate in a book club reading of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Well, what can I say? I mean, really, who writes like this? "Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in ...
I've read two other books by Ray Bradbury and while I didn't really enjoy them, I decided to give Something Wicked This Way Comes a chance. I've heard so many good things about this and I love spooky books. The story definitely sounds like something that would interest me and it's certainly not the ...
Jim and Will are average 13 year old boys – best friends and next-door-neighbors who were born a day apart. They each have secret ladders they have managed to build outside of their bedroom windows in order to sneak out for some additional harmless mischief. Harmless, that is, until one September ...
What a pleasant surprise. I was floored by the language and had to slow myself down to let it burble over me. Ornate, perhaps, maybe a bit much at times, but delicious and meant to be spoken. High marks.
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