Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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Book Summary Author: Ray Bradbury Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1999-06-08 ISBN: 0380977273 Number of pages: 304 Publisher: Harper Voyager Product features:
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Book Reviews of the Something Wicked This Way Comes
Customer Review: Overwritten!
Summary: 2 Stars
I can't believe the constant showboating of the writing in this book. The metaphors per paragraph (MPP) is just ridiculous and totally distracting from the story. Simile and metaphor are meant to communicate meaning. In this book, however, many of them, while sounding interesting or "peotic," simly don't do their real job, which is to help tell the story. Or maybe that's the problem - the story isn't very interesting so the author hopes to distract the reader from that fact with the spastic writing style. Bradbury here writes like a college kid whose only real chance of getting laid is by impressing some girl in his creative writing class. Really sad; I thought Bradbury was better that this. He apparently needed - and went without - a reasonable editor who certainly would have taken him out in the parking lot and slapped him around until he remembered what writing was supposed to sound like. Real writers use literary devices sparingly, if at all. And when they do, they make sure they are dead-on and impactful. Ray, read a little Carver or Hemingway before you write another next 70 pages of pap. If I sound irritated, I am.