Currently Reading #24 #3

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Finished reading Something Wicked This Way Comes. Overall, I enjoyed it, and Bradbury does a good job of keeping up the language and tone throughout the book, even though I suspect it's not his natural way of writing.

I was a bit disappointed in the denouement, although on a different day in a different mood, it might not have bothered me. Hard to see how Will could be brought to laugh so enthusiastically even to save Jim's life. But the idea was interesting.

Think I'd have preferred to have read the book before seeing the film, because, even though I saw the film a long time ago, it kept bleeding into my reading of the book. Still, you have to experience them one way round or t'other.

Was a bit disappointing that after all the fuss about the lightning rod and Jim taking it down, much to Will's horror, it didn't play any role in the story's resolution. What was the point of stressing it so much, then? And starting with it? It's annoying when something is emphasised so much then vanishes.