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Chargement... La foire des ténèbres (1962)par Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury is a titan of the genre, yes, and I appreciate everything that he has every done for fantasy and horror literature. But truth be told, I think that I cannot abide his writing. This is the second Bradbury I've read - the first being A Graveyard for Lunatics - and I had a similar problem with them: the story is amazing, the thought behind it is so well done, but the actual writing is very very hard to enjoy. I loved the concepts touched upon in this book - aging, mortality, good and evil, love (both from family members and closest friends), and Faustian deals - but because the writing was so prose-heavy, I found I often was just skimming the pages to get to the next bit of action. ( ![]() This reread was rprfect for October :) Now, on to my next Halloween read. Looks like I won't be finishing this one. I had started it and was vaguely interested but then Jeff picked it up and he's almost done. He does not give it a good recommendation and, knowing my annoyance with overt and probably-not-even-noticed-by-the-author sexist (or really any ist) novels, thinks I would not enjoy it. Too many good books out there so am skipping this one. It was ok. Having heard so much about it, I was excited to get into this, but the writing style was laborious, and at times, it felt like there was a lot of observation going on and not much in plot development. I think it probably reflected a type of child I. That place and time, and the more fantastical and horrific elements of it, played to those childhood fears of the time. I have a problem with Bradbury. I think he's too lyrical for me. I enjoy his descriptions and the way he merges them with memories from everyday life, but all that romanticism didn't work for me in Something Wicked This Way Comes. It actually distracted me a lot from the main plot. This was a first for me, since I enjoy poetic and nostalgic expressions and I am mystified as to why I didn't like it. Maybe I expected something else, maybe it didn't go with the story (13 year olds describing things like a 50 year old would, is not very convincing), maybe I should have read it when I was a teenager, maybe I shouldn't have "read" it as an audiobook. I don't know. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fantasy.Fiction.Science Fiction.HTML: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of 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. Young boyhood companions James Nightshade and Will Halloway are the first to heed its call. From a place of safety, they watch a midway come to spectral life, their emotions a riot of eagerness, trepidation, bravado, and uncertainty. For they can sense the change that's in the air; that this is the Autumn in which innocence must vanish in the harsh, acrid smoke of disillusionment...and horror. 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 mazes and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes and the stuff of nightmares. All those who still dream and remember? ?and those who have heard the whispering but have yet to experience its dark, poetic power? ?you are welcome. A shadow show like none other is about to begin...again Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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