Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Ray Bradbury
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and the stuff of nightmare.
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Author
Ray Bradbury
Pages
304
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published Date
2013-04-23
ISBN
0062242172 9780062242174
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"Reading this is a sweet syrup for your brain. Dreamy writing. Explores themes of father/son relationships and coping with death and aging. It's interesting to see how the expectations of different age brackets have changed since the 1960s too, because I don't feel like 40 is considered old anymore."
"This was a really sweet book. Bradbury’s writing style is really great, I am always drawn in, but the relationships and themes therein that were explored while experiencing this very fantastical situation were just amazing. "
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CaitVD
"Bradbury's writing style, for me, is better suited for short stories and novellas. Once it reaches 150+ pages, it becomes tedious. I didn't see any of the magic other comments have discussed, and found this book rather dull and predictable. I was holding out for a twist ending, but was left flat. "
"My favorite Bradbury novel, a fine blend of small town nostalgia and dark fantasy. "
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Harold Goldfus
"I got this from Audible with Christian Runnel reading it. Best audio book I've ever heard. Listen to it every year, snd I never tire of it."
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James Morgan
"Ray Bradbury is best known for his sci-fi, but when I stumbled across his ominously titled "Something Wicked This Way Comes," I had to give it a try. Macabre and brimming with baroque language, Bradbury's novel seems to be too dark and difficult for its target demographic of children. I myself didn't really understand what I was getting into which negatively shaded my assessment of the first half of the book. But by the second half, Bradbury was beginning to win me over with his brief scenes of touchingly retro father-son moments woven throughout the ghastly magical realism of the rest of the novel. My favorite parts of the book were when Bradbury captured some of the magic of being a young boy and reflected on the relationship between father and son. It's a book that I can imagine reading to future mini-Max's around Halloween, but only if they promise not to sneak out after dark!<br/><br/>Cross-posted from <a href="https://books.max-nova.com/something-wicked">https://books.max-nova.com/something-wicked</a>"
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