Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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Book Reviews of Something Wicked This Way Comes
Book 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.Book Review: Not very wicked.
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this assuming to be enthralled by a 'dark carnival'; to be a bit frightened at the least, but I was more taken aback by the repetition of bradbury's wording. He uses words with like meanings in long strings and it got old rather quickly. Some parts are like reading entries in a Thesaurus; I skipped over these "defining" paragraphs/sentences after the first couple chapters.
The book was not 'wicked'; it isn't even as scary as some R.L. Stine books I dug up recently and those aren't even a fraction of the size and depth this attempts. With the name "Something Wicked This Way Comes", I was expecting wickedness worded out; twisted thoughts and evilness dealt out by a ominous force. No deal. The book is rather tame - by its name I was expecting Steven King but instead got Walt Disney.
It's a child's book. Had I known that, I wouldn't have bought it.
Book Review: It's OKAY
Summary: 2 Stars
There's a lot of hype about this being classic literature, and one of the best genre books ever. I disagree. Although Ray Bradbury is a superb writer, this book seems to fall short. The writing is overly poetic, and the dialogue is clunky. If you read this you may find yourself re-reading sentences to figure out what the hell was being said. Although not from the book, there are many, too many, sentences like this:
"Will ran, didn't run. Jumped, didn't jump. He stomped his feet on elephant shadows and cat whisker winds."
Again, this isn't an actual sentence from the book, but something similar to the type of writing.
Buy it, read it, experience it. These reveiws are just a matter of taste anyway. The book simply left me
Book Review: It's OKAY
Summary: 2 Stars
There's a lot of hype about this being classic literature, and one of the best genre books ever. I disagree. Although Ray Bradbury is a superb writer, this book seems to fall short. The writing is overly poetic, and the dialogue is clunky. If you read this you may find yourself re-reading sentences to figure out what the hell was being said. Although not from the book, there are many, too many, sentences like this:"Will ran, didn't run. Jumped, didn't jump. He stomped his find on elephant shadows and cat whisker winds."
Again, this isn't an actual sentence from the book, but something similar to the type of writing.
Buy it, read it, experience it. These reveiws are just a matter of taste anyway. The book simply left me
Book Review: Stinks
Summary: 1 Stars
Though I usually enjoy books of this mysterious nature, this one was different. I do not reccommend this book for people like me with very little patience and a short attention span, for even in it's most exiting parts, it proves to be boring and slow-moving.