

S'està carregant… Something Wicked This Way Comes (1963)de Ray Bradbury
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This novel was extremely disconerting. Wonderful, but disconcerting. I've never really like circuses or carnivals besides Cirque du Soleil, and this book illuminates some of the dark themes that lurk behind the spotlights and bright tents. The false face of gaiety behind these operations is something that children revel in until they become old enough to see past the facade, and that is where the horror of this novel begins. Growing up, and the vast emotional distance between young and old, is central to this novel, and Bradbury seems to suggest that growing up may not be everything that the young wish for, though it does have some benefits. ( ![]() 🎃 dad spoke wisdom Although i don't normally read "supernatural horror" (although very mild in the end), this turned out to be an excellent book, mainly because of the way Ray Bradbury uses words and language. It gives the book an amazing feel... I appreciated the Afterword by the author, which gave a bit of perspective to where the concepts for the story originated. It's a lot like Neil Gaiman (I realize this was written first) and not a genre I usually seek out, but it fits the circus/carnival mystical aura read-a-likes that took me here. Great character development of the boys (very quickly in the novel) and the slower introduction of the father. The descriptions are amazing! Great examples of originality and an author's observational skill. This is not so much a book as it is a three hundred page sleeping pill. Don't get me wrong the flowery language is great. AT FIRST, but at some point Bradbury needs to stop being so long winded and just get down to his point. I enjoyed the overall story and themes of growing older and understanding good and evil. I simply found myself nodding off during his long descriptions on characters we had already met. I feel he could have trimmed this book down to a clean 200 pages and it would have been better. Simply one man's opinion. Nothing more. I'm still glad I read it. I will not be reading any more Bradbury. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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