Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Summary: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Review: Jim Nightshade and William Halloway are thirteen year old boys. They are still boys when Mr. Darks carnival, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show, comes to town. By the time the carnival leaves many of the townspeople have sold their soul in exchange of their deepest desires. Many of the village people, including Will's own father will be tempted by the offer to be young again, while Jim will find the offer of growing up fast irresistible. William can see what's going on and saves his father and then the two of them fight to save Jim and the town.

This book was thrilling, scary, and, wise in many ways. The author makes the reader understand that evil is such a powerful force not because it is so awful, but because it is so tempting. The people of the town aren't really bad people, but in their willingness to exchange their very souls for an easy chance to be something that they are not, and head down the path of evil. What Mr. Dark is offering is a temptation in every sense of the word. Will has to struggle against him in a truly heroic way.


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Summary: Something Wicked This Way Comes By Robert Cortez
Review: A masterpiece of modern literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small town with the arrival of a dark carnivalone Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town as well as their own, makes for reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn. O

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Summary: An Interesting Concept
Review: I thought the book was very interesting and in fact suspenseful in every way. You never knew what to expect. Will and Jim were two young boys with dreams and hopes like every other boy. They never expected something wicked coming for them. I personally enjoyed the book and think the movie was great as well. The movie and the novel compare and contrast in many different ways. I rate this novel a 3 becuase it is in the mid-point of a great novel. I couldn't relate to it so that's why I didn't rate it a 4. But it is an excellent book to read. When I first read the book I was very confuse about the direction it was going, but in the end it all ties up and connects to each personal character.

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Summary: really wicked
Review: Something wicked did happen to Will and Jim. Two close friends about the same age wonder around and found something that changed both of their lifes. The carousel they saw by wondering around was a time machine. Both were present to see how the time machine works. They saw how the carousel took many weird people back in time according to their desires. A big disaster was the conclusion of their wondering, they were chased and tempted for looking at people and things they werent suppose to be seen.

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Summary: Greatsest mystery movie of all times
Review: Something wicked this way comes the movie is a mind puzzeling and an abnormal movie, because of the characters and the events that catch your eyes and mind.This story of two boys who encounter the sinister wonders of Cooger and Mr.Dark's pandemonium shadow show. They will soon discover the show's awful mystery a mystery that will change the life of every person it touches. THis movie is in my opinion one of the greatest mystery movies of all times and could capture your attenion with it's phenonaminal event's and in conclusion that is why I rate this movie 5 stars

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Summary: Alex's review
Review: In this book, Bradbury's writing is so infused with his style that if you don't like his style, the book is unreadable; whereas if you do like his style, then you are almost certain to love the book. I don't like his style, but many people do. Here's a sample which illustrates the style to which I refer. It is the fourth paragraph in chapter 3:

"What's the answer, he wondered, walking through the library, putting out the lights, putting out the lights, putting out the lights, is it all in the whorls on our thumbs and fingers? Why are some people all grasshopper fiddlings, scrapings, all antennae shivering, one big ganglion eternally knotting, slip-knotting, square-knotting themselves? They stoke a furnace all their lives, sweat their lips, shine their eyes and start it all in the crib. Caesar's lean and hungry friends. They eat in the dark, who only stand and breathe."

If you like that style of writing, or at least don't consider it pretentious, self-indulgent gibberish, then you will probably be able to find a decent read in this book. I was able to make only about one-sixth of the way through before my annoyance with the style overcame my desire to read a good story.


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Summary: Sad and scary!
Review: Yes, you dont want to go to a carnical at night any time soon- especially after reading Sonething Wicked This way comes! It was as if Ray was placing you right there, to cry and laugh and scream along with the characters! This is a must have for your personal library! Spooky, scary,and it gets your heart pounding! I also recommend "Eternal Undying Love" by Brett Keane