Rating: 4 of 5 First-time read of Something Wicked This Way Comes: it was as good as I expected. And I'm in awe of Bradbury's imagery yet again. The way he wrote everything, everything, so alive and vivid, right down to the dang grass. Dark was uber creepy; I was biting my nails during the parade ...
"By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes."I had a strong urge to read this novel. Perhaps it was the title, a quote from one of the witches in [b:Macbeth|8852|Macbeth|William Shakespeare|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327866505s/8852.jpg|1896522] where she says she can tell some...
Not-too-scary horror story for kids which turns out being a reflection upon the passing of time and the importance we give to death, and thus to life. A really good reflection, in fact. Had it been developed in a more complex, braver novel, this could have been Bradbury's masterpiece.As it is, it's ...
like its companion piece [b:Dandelion Wine|50033|Dandelion Wine|Ray Bradbury|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1374049845s/50033.jpg|1627774], Something Wicked This Way Comes is set in a mythical Green Town, Illinois, and of the same ethos by exploring the miracle and mystery within a carni...
It feels like the past 24 hours have been given over to finishing this book. I read late into the night on the couch and the first thing I did upon waking was sit down on the couch and read. Now, I am tasked with somehow wrapping up my thoughts and writing intelligently on this book. I don't think t...
It feels like the past 24 hours have been given over to finishing this book. I read late into the night on the couch and the first thing I did upon waking was sit down on the couch and read. Now, I am tasked with somehow wrapping up my thoughts and writing intelligently on this book. I don't think t...
I was so happy - ecstatic - to get a copy of this book to read. I want to establish that everyone in the horror/weird genres holds this book up to be a sort of end-all of both, a classic that absolutely cannot go unread, and I was ready to experience it.This book, unfortunaltely, either has not aged...
The Ray Bradbury I remember reading decades ago was not this poetic. Something Wicked was a surprise, his evocative language doing so much to capture the mood of early fall and the seasons of life, both literally and metaphorically. Clearly, he loves words in their many forms. Equally clearly, he is...
I started this book and thought it was pretty good. The more I read, the less interested I became. I don't know if it was the writing style (which was a bit wandering, but not un-lovely), or the characters (I didn't really relate to any of them. Also the two boys... the naration drives hard that the...
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