Rating: Summary: Not really scary, but so what? Review: As a horror novel, this book fails. As a dark fantasy it succeeds. The book will not really scare anyone who reads Stephen King or even watches the X-files regularly. Mind you the book has the best prose I have ever read. At times I could of sworn that I was reading poetry not prose. If you're looking for a traditional scare look else where. If you are looking for an extremely lyrical and stylized novel that deals with the battle between good and evil in the soul.
Rating: Summary: By the Pricking of my Thumbs Something Wicked This Way Comes Review: "By the Pricking of my Thumbs, Something Wicked This Way comes." This Shakespearean couplet sums up one of Ray Bradbury's literary masterpieces in only two lines. Ray Bradbury is a dream worker as he writes a destined classic about one of the oldest force; good versus bad, right versus wrong. His book, Something Wicked This Way Comes, is compelling and entertaining, but more importantly leaves a lasting impact on the reader. This book is about two young boys and ones father in a war against the Autumn people, Dark and the freaks and their carnival and mirror maze, and carousel. I will never go on another Carousel as long as I live.
Rating: Summary: Something Wicked This Way Comes= Waste of reading time Review: This book was a waste of my time. He uses to many pages describing... NOTHING. I guess he tried to make it creepy by the whole evil carnival but... it didnt work. I had to do this book for a book report so I had to read it. Halfway through the book it seems as if you are just beginning it waiting for the story to really begin. I reccomend for you to NOT read this book. The only thing that drew my attention was the cover.
Rating: Summary: This is an AWESOME book! Review: This book is really good! I think everyone should read a book this good! Buy this book, you won't regret it!
Rating: Summary: Er! Review: I read this book for school and it was really confusing. Half the book didn't make sense. I dont suggest it because its real confusing. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury is alot better. Because its easier to understand.
Rating: Summary: I hate this book. Review: This book used a mammoth amount of undecipherable metaphors and similies, confusing and unnecssecary description. The dialog had no point and about 85% of the book was pointless. In other words dont waste your time. I was looking on this site for a full review of this awful book so i can to my ridiculously long report on this book i didnt understand.
Rating: Summary: epic struggle Review: No one has ever written better about the enchantment of childhood than did Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine. Its a book that's all about the bright possibilities of youth, when the whole world seems magical. With Something Wicked This Way Comes, he looks at the flip side, how as we get older we discover that evil exists in the world too, and not just that it exists but that it is alluring, to us and all those around us. It's 1929, in Green Town, Illinois, and Jim Nightshade and William Halloway are thirteen, right on the traditional cusp of manhood. They are still boys when the dark carnival, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show, comes to town, but by the time it leaves they'll have grown up, for Mr. Dark, ringleader of the carnival, offers people their deepest darkest desires in exchange for their souls. Many of the townfolk, including Will's own father will be seduced by the offer of a return to youth, while Jim will find the offer of growing up fast irresistible. But Will can see what's going on and first saves his father and then the two of them fight to save Jim and the town. This book is thrilling, scary, and, most important, wise in the ways of man. Bradbury well understands that evil is such a powerful force not because it is so awful, but because it is so attractive. The people of Green Town aren't necessarily bad people, but in their willingness to exchange their very souls for an easy chance to be something that they are not, they head down the path of evil. What Mr. Dark is offering is unnatural in the strictest sense of the word, it violates the laws of nature, and Will's struggle against him is truly heroic, maybe even Biblical. You'll not often hear him listed among the great American authors, but with this book, Dandelion Wine, and Fahrenheit 451 to his credit, Ray Bradbury may deserve at least a mention. GRADE : A
Rating: Summary: A Masterpiece. Review: This is probably one of the best written books of all time. Almost poetic in it's prose it carries you through the eyes of two young boys who witness the arrival of the dark carnival and the horrors that it brings. It is a real "good versus evil" yarn but with much more magic, suspense, imagination and atmosphere then most of it's rivals. I have read it many times over and will undoubtedly do so again. The ending is surprisingly uplifting. There is much more to this book than just a story!
Rating: Summary: By the pricking of my thumbs... Review: Two young boys, William and Jim, are faced with quite the carnival. Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois where Will and Jim reside. Little do they know, this is more than your average carnival...This book haunts you, it's crazy, but you enjoy almost every minute of it. Ray Bradbury is quite the story teller, every one of his books explore a different world.. very unlike ours...
Rating: Summary: I was expecting horror..... Review: Ray Bradbury is an exceptional writer....and this story is like a well-written Goosebumps book. It is NOT scary for an adult brought up on Stephen King horror. However, I was fooled by reviews claiming this book "has been known to give some people nightmares".... well, those "some people" are twelve year olds. I recommend this book for pre-teens. For adults, I recommend Stephen King's Needful Things, which is vaguely similar.
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