04-06-2015, 11:38 AM
Recently I thought I would re-read Something Wicked This Way Comes and I just couldn't do it. It was straining way too hard to be meaningful and I found it over-written (too much flowery language). It made me wonder about his other books (Did I just like them because I was young and not discerning?)
For a vacation read, I carried along The Illustrated Man. I hadn't read it since I was in high school. The framing device of the illustrated man is very clever, but the collection is actually mostly mediocre old pulp stuff. I was surprised by that. There are three standouts: "The Veldt" (which I still remembered), "The Fox and the Forest", and "Zero Hour", and the rest is IMO just potboilers. I am starting on The Martian Chronicles next.
For a vacation read, I carried along The Illustrated Man. I hadn't read it since I was in high school. The framing device of the illustrated man is very clever, but the collection is actually mostly mediocre old pulp stuff. I was surprised by that. There are three standouts: "The Veldt" (which I still remembered), "The Fox and the Forest", and "Zero Hour", and the rest is IMO just potboilers. I am starting on The Martian Chronicles next.
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