January 27th, 2012 by Amanda
I really enjoyed Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
(this was only the third Bradbury for me). It took me a while to get into it. The “weird” level was pretty high and it moved slowly. Eventually ( by about the last third of the book) it began to pay off. Bradbury’s vision is uncomfortable but still redemptive. I was surprised to find myself mentally comparing this book to Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. Of course, their style is quite different. Both are rich in their own way but Chesterton is tangy where Bradbury is complex. Thursday is more like a toast with a thick spread of lemon curd and Something Wicked like truffle ravioli…or something…
Anyway, the vision of joy overcoming fear and of life rooted in sturdy faithfulness unites the two books and makes Bradbury’s worth sticking through the slow and the weird.
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