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Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0-380-72940-7 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (147 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A 'WICKED' GOOD READ!
Comment: Ray Bradbury is one of the masters of modern literature. However, I have only encountered his excellent prose twice: in the superb science fiction thriller FAHRENHEIT 451 (a must read) and here in the pages of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. After these entertaining reads, I need to familiarize myself with more of his work.
As for the book, Something Wicked is a story that every child (especially young boys) can relate to. It's the story of friendship and indeed best friends, the story of an evil carnival that gives people what they desire...but at what price, and the bond between fathers and sons. Truly the monsters in this book practically leap off of the page - the dust witch really creeped me out. The tattooed Mr. Dark is an evil classic and the confrontation between him and the main characters in the depths of the library is a page-burner (and made me remember the creepy feeling I used to get in librarys).
If you are not familiar with this story...READ IT NOW! And, where this story cries out to the joys of youth and childhood, I feel I should also recommend BOY'S LIFE by Robert R. McCammon which in many ways is a reflection on this story...the two would definately make excellent book ends.
Rating: 4
Summary: Something divine this way came...almost.
Comment: Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
I am grateful to Stephen King for having brought this novel to notice in his horror fiction chronicle-critique 'Danse Macabre' (which I will recommend to anybody who is even remotely interested in horror/fantasy media).
The main protagonists of this supernatural adventure are the sunny Will Halloway and his companion and counterpart, the wild Jim Nightshade. The plot centers on how their lives are turned upside-down with the arrival of that very unusual sideshow carnival, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show (God, this has such a Heavy Metal feel to it).
If it were to be judged by its start-up this would undoubtedly be one of the best books ever. Bradbury in his element comes up with the literary equivalent of a Rick Wakeman solo. The words fly fast and furious, magically arranging themselves into such dizzyingly ornate and mellifluous phrases, sentences, paragraphs that almost threaten to drown the reader in their exuberance and beauty. This major portion of this book contains some of Bradbury's finest literary moments and as anyone who has read his work will till you, that is an achievement of no mean order. Characters like the Dust Witch and Mr. Dark aka The Illustrated Man are described in such vivid and astonishing detail as to strongly etch themselves onto readers' minds. You do not merely read, you see, hear, smell, taste, feel whatever the pen of Bradbury commands you to. This book bristles with parts that I will be happily re-reading for many months on.
Wherein lies the catch? The plot after one of the best build-ups ever constructed grows somewhat loose with several potentially interesting supporting characters (Mr. Electrico, the Dwarf) given marginal footage. Although lavish description is used to paint what Stephen King describes as the 'Apollonian-Dionysian' divide between Will and Jim, once the action heats up, this is pretty much left by the wayside, the boys rendered almost interchangeable in their personalities. The story, after a point moves IMO almost into the realms of the straight-ahead thriller format, although Bradbury's writing alleviates a lot of the conventionality and it is perhaps only the cynical bastard in me that finds it difficult to swallow the 'Love Conquers All' driven denouement.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: Something Wicked This Way Comes, is one of the most amazing books ever written ever! "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." Every time I hear that saying I think of this book written by Ray Bradbury. Also I think that it was kind of odd how Mr. Dark used the diguise of being the lightning rod salesman, and how Jim and Will found out all the secrets of the mirors and the mazes and the fariswheel. All that Mr. Dark and Mr. Cooger were trying to do were to take the peoples souls and trade them for what they (the people) wished for the most as in their sins. To all that haven't read this book should really read it because it will make you interested in it more and more...page after page. This book is one of the best ever written and it will make you more interested in it because of all what happens it makes you wander whats going to happen to Jim and Will next, so it keeps you gessing, and it makes you wander if Will and Jim will make it out alive or dead!! Who know till you read it, so go out and read it for my sake and for yours.
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Title: Dandelion Wine by RAY BRADBURY ISBN: 0553277537 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Martian Chronicles by RAY BRADBURY ISBN: 0553278223 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Illustrated Man by RAY BRADBURY ISBN: 055327449X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The October Country by Ray Bradbury ISBN: 034532448X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Halloween Tree by Joseph Mugnaini, Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0375803017 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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