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Something Wicked This Way Comes & A Sound of Thunder

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In Bradbury's unforgettable modern Gothic masterpiece, Something Wicked This Way Comes, something evil arrives in a small Midwestern town on the crest of the wind one autumn night. A "dark carnival" with frightening attractions and supernatural characters sets up stakes. It is up to two 13-year-old boys, James Nightshade and William Holloway, to figure out a way to save the souls of the town.

In A Sound of Thunder, a safari company promises to transport adventurers back in time, to hunt any animal that ever existed. The animals are selected according to their natural time of death: nothing else may be altered, because it might change the course of the future. When one foolish hunter comes face to face with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the carefully constructed safari goes awry, and the future is up for grabs.

Something Wicked This Way Comes ©1962 Ray Bradbury
A Sound of Thunder ©1962 Ray Bradbury; (P)2005 Blackstone Audio Inc.

1 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1,1962

This edition

Format
1 pages, Audio CD
Published
October 1, 2005 by Blackstone Audio Inc
ISBN
9780786176267
ASIN
0786176261
Language
English

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Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

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juviin
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April 26,2025
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I decided Bradbury just isn't for me. Too verbose and just doesn't catch my attention. I felt the same after reading The Playground, but I assumed it was because I don't often strongly connect to short stories. Nope.

Got 3/4 of the way through and decided not to waste any more of my time on it.
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flottings
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April 26,2025
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Even after the "good guys" won, this book left me feeling creeped out. Very scary and very evil - I'm not letting my kids read this one until they are in high school at least. I also didn't appreciate Bradbury's choice of vocabulary - do the characters really need to use profanity to express their fright?
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LordToine
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April 26,2025
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I love the way Ray Bradbury describes things. This book is a nice spooky Halloween read and even if you don't like spooky, you've got to love his writing.
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MagEarwhig
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April 26,2025
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This is a reread. So grateful to return to Bradbury's world of the small midwestern town...with a twist.

Bradbury has a command of words that many authors cannot approach....strings of words that evoke an atmosphere which chilled me. Autumn people and summer people. There will always be conflict.
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kingdumbhearts
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April 26,2025
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The reader was very good at distinguishing character voices, but the voice for Jim was a bit too whiney.
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Sparviero1001
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April 26,2025
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I am not a big fan of Bradbury, he is a bit dry and verbose for my taste. That being said, this is an interesting story of human nature. In a small midwestern town a circus comes to visit, but this circus is anything but ordinary. Two boys get caught up in the age old battle of good versus evil. But instead of battling monsters, the fight is with their selves.
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bam541
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April 26,2025
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I *loved* Stefan Rudinicki as a reader for Ender's Game, but I am really struggling with him as a reader for this book. He's too grandiose. Someone like Tom Stechschulte I think would work better.

Love the book, hate the audiobook.
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