Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, which I love, but this book is worlds different. In Something Wicked This Way Comes (SWTWC), Bradbury writes in such a flowery, esoteric way, I found myself lost -- trying to unravel his words. Eventually, I started skimming. That said, the plot is unique and quite cool. A carnival comes to a small rural town in the nighttime -- "Dark & Cooger's.". There are chills and spooky characters...and magic!. The Dust Witch has no eyes but can see. There's Miss Foley's nephew, who we meet a couple different times, when he's big, then small. (What?!) No more spoilers. SWTWC was written in 1962; a movie was made years later. My suggestion is to skip the book, watch the movie. I'll probably give Bradbury another try - this was only the 2nd of his books that I've read. He is surely a master of words. But there was too much flowery, metaphoric stuff in this one for me.
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