A review by nicomarlyse
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
5.0
Finished post-book club but you know how it goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bradbury was and still is very influential for me and Something Wicked has gotta be one of my top faves of his. I just love how darkly poetic it is, especially how he uses ~word-word~ descriptions (I mean, come on, “beauty built of milk-bone and moon-flesh”? SWOON! “The lovely snail-gleam of the railway tracks…flinging wild gesticulations of lemon and cherry-colored semaphore to the stars”? Snail-gleam! So true! “People… stood raw and animal-crazy, naked… hands out to touch each other”? Sexy and creepy and I wanna join!!!). So many other gems in here, too. UGH, just so rich in imagery without overdoing it with complicated sentence structures. So creepy and weird and a perfect fall read. I enjoyed it just as much at 24 as I did at 14/15. Love this man. His typewriter was on fire for this one fr
Bradbury was and still is very influential for me and Something Wicked has gotta be one of my top faves of his. I just love how darkly poetic it is, especially how he uses ~word-word~ descriptions (I mean, come on, “beauty built of milk-bone and moon-flesh”? SWOON! “The lovely snail-gleam of the railway tracks…flinging wild gesticulations of lemon and cherry-colored semaphore to the stars”? Snail-gleam! So true! “People… stood raw and animal-crazy, naked… hands out to touch each other”? Sexy and creepy and I wanna join!!!). So many other gems in here, too. UGH, just so rich in imagery without overdoing it with complicated sentence structures. So creepy and weird and a perfect fall read. I enjoyed it just as much at 24 as I did at 14/15. Love this man. His typewriter was on fire for this one fr